Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-05-03
FROM BLUCHER.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN, April so


EDITOR APPEAL: Citizens of Nevada, who
are Taxpayers, and who voted for the repre-
sentatives of the last year, had better look
over the records, and try to get through their
WOOL whether the corporations-railroad and
mining-had anything to do with the action
of that august body. The communication of
Fred E. Fisk of Eureka brings some of the
scum to the surface and shows the course Of
Mr.. Mills and his facile tool, Pete Everts,
who is mere cats paw of the corporation
Fred Fisk, one of the proprietors of the Eu-
reka Leader, was sent to the Assembly, but
though Fred had worked as an employe of the
E. Il road, that was no reason to Fred why
he should be their tool, and sell himself and
his position in the community to either Mr..
Mills or Mr.. Everts, the Arbdne and GENTLE
manly Superintendent at Eureka. Because
corporations can buy out such men as Everts
to do their dirty work, 1t is hardly fair to pre-
dictate from such standpoint the easy pur
chase of every man they can reach with money,
or whom they have the means of starving out,
1t is at least some consolation to know that
among the congregation of scrubs assembled
at Carson last winter, there were few who
were not exposed for sale on the shanbles of
the railroad and mining monopolies; and it
will be more consolation to know that, here
after, when those facile fools, with itching
palms, are left quietly on the shelf, Fred Fisk
will hold his place an honorable man, and
hp al tO live ito of If ba
E. d P. road. The letter which appears in
Mondays edition of the Leader, which Is con-
firmed by his discharge from the firm at the
dictation of the officers of the road, furnishes
beautiful commentary on the sincerity of the
promises made to the citizens of Eureka last
winter, by Mr.. Everts, but hich was prompt
ly squelched by his proprietors when he found
that it would not be necessary to carry them
out. If anything was needed to convince the
people of the State that they are wandering
around, like the Indian Murderer, with vile
carcass strapped to his back, the action of this
one-horse monopoly should satisfy them for
ever And now, what redress has MIR. Fisk
for this reward of his honestyl If he should
common fair play from the road, and if they
carried out their threats OF all opposition, they
could swamp him in six months; these public |
benefactnrs; and yet while Mr.. Fisk earns his
money by hard labor, and spends it i'll Eureka,
Mr.. Everts builds his house At Oakland and |
spends the money wrung from the merchants
of the Base Range there, rides between those
points a common dead head, and does
the bidding Of others who have no more inter
est tn Eureka, and contribute no more toward
it's prosperity than does the " Gentlemanly
who employees in turn,
. Ben, who msnipulates at San Francisco,
md whose classical effusion, Fisk publishes in
lis paper. Is it likely that the next Legisla-
ure will be as useful as the last or, that the
anne gentlemen will pace that floor in the flu
urel The E. & P. road like all the other ;
Dads of the coast, is run for the benefit of
osentee stockholders and plant officials: and
either the interests nor the accommodation
t the regions they tap, are consulted Legis-
atures confer on them the power to drive out ,
and plant representatives of ,
he people support them in every kind of mo-
opoly and discrimination, because in the ma
ority of cases, these sol0ns are elected as
Democrats or Republicans, and people never d
SIX whether they are for sale, or whether they
o to Carson or elsewhere to serve their con-
Ituents or the railroads. And what q" in L
be name of all the Gods at once" has Dem L
cratic or Republican politics to do with our e
'cal interests, except so for as electing Sen
tor or two is concerned? The DEVELOPMENT Fl
our valleys, and the working of our mines, L
re overlooked in the scramble for loaves and h
shes; and men who are sent to serve the b
eople, simply sell the people, live on their j
loney and betray every trust confded to
lem, and come back home with lame excuses a
! to their ideas of duty, and having ex hausted t
leir powers in doing nothing, simply fall A
ack upon their political record, and " ask for >
ore There is passage in Pollock de-
riptive of the awful agony of the damned, p
hose writings under the silent gnawing of al
e " worm that never dies, " are met with b.
e sentence in letters of fire, eye know
'ur duty, but ye did it not. 1" Let orr r.
ould-be law makers remember this y,
Boucher.
A Coon APPoINTMEET.-The Times Rerier re