Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-02-05

hibitng rather too much zest in making a
stalking horse of the c. P and hiding their
own misdeeds behind the unpopularity of the
"Bonanza cIowd?"
Is there no honor among thu
Following some further personal illusions
Mr. Mason was good enough to explain the
reasons for the determinations practiced by
the Virginia and Truckee Company. These
determinations, he explained, were due to
causes over which the company had no con-
troll and were therefore excusable. He ad-
mitted that Determinations were made in
behalf of the Bonanza Companies and likened
those companies to highwayman who COM
pels the traveller to come to his terms.
1t seems to us that Mr.. Masons criticisms
upon Mr.. Towne's explanation might we'll be
employed against himself; and as to the
highwayman who compels the traveller to
surrender his money at the point of pistol,
does not that malefactor find parallel in the
''local' railroad which not only EFFORTS an
enormous mileage for freights and fares, but,
with grasping and greedy hand, takes to itself
all the trade and traffic and industries within
its reach? How much better or of higher
tone is the Wood Ring which juggles with
mercy, than the foot-pad who makes the be-
lated citizen stand and deiverl
Mr. Mason told his audience that M. Chas.
E. Laughton, auditor of the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad Company, was about to
favor the Legislature with statement of the
business of that peculiarly g crooked Rail
road But he had no fault to find with that
corporation for its neglect, these nine years,
to comply with the law requiring yearly state
ments Of its transactions.
With great atfability Mr.. Mason invited
the members of the Legislature to have a
talk with the managers and officers of the
Virginia and Truckee Railroad This, we
suppose, is by authority, a. it were. If So
Mr.. D. 0. Mills and his associates are Ger
tainly very obliging. If We understood Mr..
Mason Alright he rather reprehended the
Steve Gaige, or other gentlemen of the Cen
trail Pacific Railway lobby. 1t is evident that
he does not fully concur in the homely axiom
that what is ''sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander.
The usual plea in behalf of the employees
wages was urged by Mr. Mason; who forgot
to say that it was through the deliberate pur-
pose of the Virginia and Truckee managers
that the poor white men of Empire were
despoiled of their little wage as Iaborers en-
ployed in taking the CarsoA River wood drive
from the Spanish Ditch, themselves being
superseded by Cinnamon.
Indeed, we fear that there were those pres
ent at Mr. Na.ons lecture who entertained
doubts as to his sincerity when he declared,
AS several tiraes he did declare, that in chang
ag the tune and tone of hi. discourse so as
70 excuse the practices of the Virginia and
Truckee Company, after so severely CRITICS
ing the Contra! Pacific, he was mot apologies
ing for the the Virginia and Truckee Rail
road > for
Not one word had he to say to the vast
profits which are monthly swelling the pro-
digious wealth of D. o. Mills
Not once did he allude to the fact that the
Virginia and Truckee Railroad never cost it's
owners one dollar of outlay and that they, as
well as the Central Pacific, were fattening off
the bounty of the people;
Not once did he allude to the cruel and
hurtful practices of the Wood and Lumber
Ring, which is as much part of the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad Company as the Con-
tract and Finance Committee is Of the Cen
trail Pacific
Not once did he tell his audiance that the
Glenbrook saw mills have fallen prey to the
rapacity of D. 0. Mills & Company;
Not once did he point out the fact that in
al points where evasion is possible the Vir-
sinia and Truckce Railroad Company has
evaded the laws;
Never did he by even the most remote ref
erence remind his auditors of the fact that,
to their means and the favors they
have enjoyed, the Virginia and Truckee Rail
road pays the smallest tax that is paid within
the County Of Ormsby.
A LEGITIMATE INFERENCE.
The accusation is boldly made that the
managers, agents and go-betweens of the So
called Citizens movement in Ormsby county
last Fall did, SO far as their Legislative ticket
is concerned, agree with the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad. Company that the interests