Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-12
POPULAR CULTURE.

a Territory. It's marvellous mineral riches
together with the fact that it was admitted in
to the Union as a sovereign State as early as
1864, have for the last fifteen years attracted
to it the attention of the entire civilized world.
Its prodigious yield of silver as well as large
proportion of gold, has made it a large fac
tor in the reckonings of monetary circles and
6nanciers. The wonderful wealth of its rocks
gave greater moral and material assurance of
successful resumption of specie payments than
any other one fact outside the loyalty and f.
nancial honesty of the people of the North.
The little Commonwealth of 10000 people
which occupies the Great Basin, has thus
made it's mark in the history of our common
country. Meanwhile we are as people pass
ing through a period of change that greatly
modifies our general statues and leaves ourtu-
ture stability and intelligence more or less
questionable The generation of men who
came here and prospected the land and reared
up State are rapidly passing away, and it
sometimes looks as though the only heritage
left their successors is one of almost complete
subordination to the close corporations which
in the main control almost every interest and
enterprise which was once open to all and
which gave as that impetus that has made US
what We are. AS it is now, we are in large
measure left to struggle against the crushing
weight of that species of serfdom which is the
most humilating of ALL for the reason that 1t
seems to make no direct attack upon individ-
ual liberty, and is at the same time absolute
in fact. The control by few of the vast prop
critics that have been developed here, is, fairly
speaking, capable of sitting, and does to
degree repress the ambition that would other
wise carry US forward with great rapidity to
an extraordinary Development of our mate
rial and intellectual capabilities The dis
couragements that are so widely felt among the
masses of our people should not be allowed to
prevail to the extent of undoing us. A larger
attention must be given to the diffusion of ed
ucation and the acquiring of that general
knowledge which is power. We must be con-
tent to live with greater frugality than here
tofore, and cultivate that faculty of content
ment with small things which makes its pos
SCISSOR a king, and peer of the richest. We
must and ought to determine to remain in
Nevada and aid in conducting it to brighter
future than seems now to be promised. If
we continue self reliant and tenacious as be-
comes the Anglo Saxon, we shall speedily out |
wit the short sighted and selfish policy with |
which capital always operates, and establish |
upon enduring foundations the well-doing and |
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temporarily to the fact that capital has got the
best of US. 1t is almost impractieable with
many who have been busy participators in
the struggle for rapid fortunes which has at
last well nigh beggared them, turn composedly
to the consideration of things which are not
conducive to that high pressure excitement
that has for years been so habitua, and in
general, so ruinous But, upon us who are
living, is the duty of transmitting a legacy of
free institutions and general intelligence, if
we would not see our children become under
ground slaves. The thought is enough to
make us pause and reflect. The State of Ne
vada has as good school system, and it is as
generously supported as any in the Union.
And yet, an appalling proportion of the
children do not seem to be acquiring educa-
ton or any great degree of industrial inteli-
gence. The encouragement that has settled
upon many parent seems to have democrat
lied the children, and to have relaxed paren-
tai control. The cheering effect of the wages
of honest, steady employment is wanting in the
average of households in the State of Nevada.
The children have but little prospect of assured
and remunerative employment when they shall
have arrived at maturity. But, when rightly
considered, these are the very reasons why
the most strenuous efforts and undivided at
tention of every parent should be given to the
education of the children knowledge is l
power and intelligence will aid our children ,
even should they be obliged to go elsewhere t
for living. 1t is the grand. and, indeed, al s
most the only really independent patrimony I
that can be bequeathed to the children in this
State, as things now are, although our moIn-
tains are ribbed with silver. But we should ;
pot stop here. If we would be a people, we
must at least become more generally and spe-
,iically conversant with the peculiar conditions
If soil climate and above all the hidden marvels
hat are concealed by our dreary wastes. 1t .
8 time that voluntary associations of scien
ltllc and literary character were formed |