Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-21
REMEMBER THE ORPHANS.

Few people can pass the State Orphan Asy-
lum without thinking that it would be impos-
sible to treat these little waits too we'll The
child which begins it's struggles with the
world without the guiding hand of a father or
the tender love of mother, is but little bet
ter than a piece of drift wood, wandering
| upon the breast of the broad stream of hu
man misery which GIBBS and flows through all
eternity. The man who helps to ameliorate
the condition of the homeless and the father
less can look the future in the face, and not
shrink from payment Of the debt of nature
when death confronts him with the bill For
some days past our evening contemporary
has been seized with desire to assist the
orphans, and has called upon AS to join him
in that philanthropic undertaking. He has
desired to do SO on the basis that his circula-
ton in Carson is greater than ours; that his
circulation outside of Carson is greater, and
that he pays more solid coin to his employees.
S"me days ago he made this offer, which was
accepted. Instead of coming to the front
with his money, he charged us with trying to
crawl out of the matter. We can assure him
that he was more than mistaken. If the
APPEAL has ever claimed to have the largest
circulation while it has the second largest,
we have clearly been guilty of defrauding
our advertisers by misrepresenting the
amount of advertising we gave them for their
money. If this is the case, we deserve not
the patronage but the contempt of the COM
munity in which we live. ANY attempt to
misrepresent the circulation Of paper is
fraud upon every advertiser. We have been
charged with this fraud, and it remains for
as to dispreve the assertion. We have never
to our knowledge claimed the largest circula-
ton, as We have had no means of ascertain
ing the circulation of our contemporaries.
Yesterday the editor of the APPEAL deposited
$500 gold coin with Fl. L. Tickner of the
Wells, Fargo Company. 1t was placed in his
safe with stipulation in writing that if the
proprietor Of the Times deposited like
amount and made good his assertions the
money loft by the APPEAL should be denat-
ed to the Orphans Home. Otherwise the
Times money was to go to it. To be mere e1-
plicit, We make the following propositions:
That the APPEAL quarterly bill for postage
is larger that the Times, 500.
That the APPEALS bona fide city circula.
ten is larger, 800.
That it pays its employees nsre ''sold coin,
800.
We have endeavored to put these three
propositions in such plain terms that they can
not be easily misunderstood. The Times has
issued its banter on these three propositions,
and simply to ascertain whether it is a case of
coin or bluff We have made the deposit named.
1t can be covered any time between the open
ing of Wells, Fargo tomorrow morning and |
noon. Should time be wanted to further in |
vestigate the condition of the APPEALS circu- |
latisn it will be granted. In making public
the above propositions we owe our readers
an apology fer turning the MORNING APPEAL
into q sporting journal The
Times named the financial element in the
proposition. We simply put the money up,
and No one with any humanity in his heart
would object to any plan by which the orphans
could be benefited. No one doubts that they
are already we'll cared for, but any addition
to their comfort will certainly not be amiss
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