Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-14
THE EXPENSE OF CRIMINALS.

THE EXPENSE OF CRIMINALS.
During the past year the criminal element
Of Mono county. California, through the
courts has caused the taxpayers direct ex
pense of $43 900. Thus the honest and in
dustrious who accumulate property and obey
the laws are taxed for the idle, shiftless and
criminal class. This bill of $S43, 600 footed up
by Mono county since January LIST went to
pay the expenses Of trials in the criminal
courts. and it is a matter of fact that most Of
the criminals tried slipped through the mesh
es of the law, and the money was worse than
wasted. These same awbreakers, now free to
roam at large, will in the course of another
year be likely to entail fresh expense upon
the county equal in amount to the figures
already quoted. When the taxpayers of
county pay S43, 900 in nine months for the ad-
ministration of Justice they are entitled to
witness some of its results So large sum
of money and not single murderer swinging
from the gallows beam is a sad swindle on the
law abiding portion of the community. Scores
of men have been shot down in the streets of
Bodie during the past year and the murderers
have not been punished. The men who COM
pose juries are frequently as bad as the men
on trial. The prisoner has two classes of peo-
pie in his favor, the soft hearted ninnes who
have a mistaken feeling of sympathy and
charity for every thief, bravaao and cut throat
that lives, and those who think that they
ought somehow to 'stand in with this same
dangerous class. This is why that highly
commendable Institution known as lynch law
is looked upon with favor. Criminals have
wholesome dread of a crowd of determined
men with an inch rope, but the ordinary
courts Of justice have ceased to inspire fear or
command respect. So long as this state of af
fairs prevails honest working people, taxpay-
ers and producers will be obliged to foot the
bills for the trial and acquittal of the non
producing criminal class.
IMPOSING NAMES Free Lance, paper
published in Nevada City, California, has
opened crusade against banking institu.
ton, whereupon paper friendly to the bank,
instead Of discussing the solvency Of the in
stitution prints list of names to show who
say, Glow is it possible for bank to be any
thing but sound with such men as these at the |
head" The idea that an institution, and es-
pecially banking institution, can be Judged 1
by the character of the names of the persons |
who manage it is mistaken one. Some of
the most honest and best disposed people in
the world are utterly incompetent to handle
money and it is not an unfreguent thing for
men who have been looked upon for years as
good square citizens, to suddenly develope
into thieves and swindlers. The best evil
dence of banks condition is an investigation
Of the books and money vaults. In all COM
munities are to be found a number of men
who for some reason or another are censld
cred infallible. If they are infalible, criticism
or investigation will not hurt them in the
least. Yet they are as rule the very ones
who make the most fuss when subjected to it.
STILL AHEAD.-The Enterprise remarks:
The Lyon County Times seems to have the
Carson APPEAL down to spot. 1t says;
{" The Carson APPEAL was some weeks in ad
vance Of the Genoa Courier"
We are considerably in advance of good
many papers besides the Courier. A few
weeks ago the Enterprise printed an editorial
IN the connection of the Democracy with
Coolie labor in California, which had appeared
n the APPEAL three months before, and from
whose columns it was bodily stolen. Although
ome weeks in advance of the Courier, the
APPEAL appears to have been some months in
Idvance of the Enterprise. This is doubtless
Why the California press alludes to the Ar-
'EAL as the "Leading Repu 5lican pa per in
he Sta te.
The PROPOSED AMENDMENT.-TheW White
Pine Ne,Os has the following .
The proposed amendmentto the Constitu-
ion, changing the time of the meeting Of the
legislature from the first Monday in Jan ,
larry to the first Monday in February, is now :
'eng advertised throughout the State for the i
of the people. Before this amend
aent will be in proper form fer the people to
ote upon it will have to run the gauntlet of
he next Legislature, when should it meet the
ppreval of that body. the voters will be
allied upon to accept or reject it in the cleo O
ion in 1882. Senator Powping, in the Rene
'Ournal, says the object of the amendment is
good one. Under the present system the
eports of the State officers are not submitted