Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-08-07
VARIOUS coUNTERFEITs.

prescribes very excellent sermon on coun'
terfeiting which we here reproduce for the
benefit of those who study the APPEAL on
Sunday
A gentleman by the name of Avery has
recently been arrested for counterfeiting
dimes and quarters. There is no doubt
that this misguided person was engaged in
a very reprebensible calling. He knew
it was unlawfu', and that, in addition to
the violation of the statue, it was q wrong
to individuals who might be left with false
coins on their hands and unable to pass
them. He will doubtless be punished as
the law prescribes, unless he can show to
the satisfaction of q jury that he was
possessed of the implements OF the coun-
terfeiting trade for some honest purpo e
and that he passed by mistake the false
coins he had made.
There are in this and in all other COM
munities counterfeiters who escape arrest
indeed, their false coinage is not unlawful.
It would require more space than is con-
tanned in any one issue of the Republican to
describe them all, but we may few:
There are the makers and vendors of
adulterated articles of food. The sand in
our sugar. the chiccory in our coffee, and
all the various materials whereby that which
seems to be is not-all these are as truly
counterfeits as is the lead quarter or dime.
The girl who paints and the beau who dyes
his whiskers cheat each other by the ex-
change of counterfeits. The parson who
appears moro pious than he feels, the poll
tician Who pretends to more patriotism
than he has, and the editor who affects
more knowledge than belongs to him each
of these is a counterfeiter. The doctor
who walks on tip-toe in the presence of the
stomsch-ache. and in mysterious under
tone uses his unknown technical jargon to
terrify the bystanders, is a counterfeit of
services, and is trying to pass off penny
worth of skill for pound. The lawyer
who humbugs his confding client, the cir
Gus manager whose pictures of impossible
flights of horses in the air sharpen the boys
persuasive powers and enable them to bur-
peddler of strawberries and peaches with
the largest ones at the top the canting
Pecksniffs, moralizing on glass of water
and gushing whole magazine essay over q
wan faced beggar whose wants they forget
to relieve-all these and hundreds more are
The man who joins a
church merely to give himself tone and to
inspire others with confidence upon which
hopes to increase his business or his credit
is counterfeiter he uses the Almighty
name as trademark and FORCES it to his
note on Change.
But there IS no way of detecting some Of
these counterfeiters. They work with in
visible implements. The hypocrite seems
as good as the best, and there is no unfail |
ing test which can be applied to his coun-
terfeit coin. All of which should cause us /
to examine the coin in our possession, and,
if we find we have inflated il by alloy, to |
look with less favor upon the lawful conn
which goes unpunished, yea, I'M
Of Justice, and with more COM
posure npon the mere connterfeiting of
small bits of money. We are not excusing |
Mr.. Avery. He should be punished. |
When the lawful counterfeiters are de-
ected let them be exposed. That Will be
punishment enough for them, for it will |
top the circulation of their false coin.
It is now claimed that the ''infernal ma
chimes" which was reported to have been
discovered on board of British
hips were placed there by the agents of
he English Government for the purpose of
capital against the Land
League. It is said that the machines were
packed in barrels of cement-an article
lever included among freight exports to
hat country-and the barrels containing
hem were marked with black crosses,
which were calculated to attract attention
ather then to avoid it.
The Rev. W. W. Colley, recently mis-.
ionary in Africa, has distinguished him
elf at Norwich, Conn.,, by declaring in a
ecture that there was no barren Sahara,
md the whole country known on the maps
IS sterile and uninhabitable was fertile and
lensely populated. The willy Arabs
tarted the lie, he explained, in order to
Keep out competition in the ivory traffic.
1t Rocklin. California, the other day in
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