Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-06-17

~ THERE ANY DANGER.
The following is what few far-seeing,
patriotic men have thought and said:
The following extract from recent let
ter written by Hon. David Davis. once q
Judge of the Supreme Court, now Sena-
tor of the United States, indicates the SER
ious nature Of the problem before us:
"Great corporations and consolidated
monopolies are fast selling the avenues of
power that lead to the control of the Gov
eminent It is an open secret that they rnle
States through procured Legislatures and
corrupted Courts; that they are strong in
Congress, and that they are Inscriptions
in the use of means to conquer prejudice
and acquire influence. This condition of
things is truly alarming, for unless it be
changed quickly and thoroughly, free in
stitutions are doomed to be subverted by
an oligarchy resting upon basis of money
and corporate power"
The present Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Window, in q recent letter to the
President Of the Anti Monopoly League,
says: .. 5r
"The channels of thought and the chan
nels of commerce thus owned and con-
trolled by one man, or by a few men, what
is to retain corporate power, or to FIX q
limit to its exactions upon the people?
What is then to hinder these men from de-
pressing or initiating the value of all kinds
of property to suit their caprice or avarice,
and thereby gathering into their own
Golfers the wealth of the nation? Where
is the limit to such power as this? What
shall be said of the spirit of free people
who will submit without protest to be
thus bound hand and foot?'
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, ex-Jndge of the
Supreme Court and ex-Attorney General of
the United States, recently stated
s'All public men must take their side on
this question. Their can be no neutrals.
He that is not for us is against us. We must
have legal protection against these abuses.
This agitation once begun, and the magni-
tude Of the grievance being understood, it
will force our rulers to give US a remedy
against it. The monopolies will resist with
all their arts and influence, but fifty mil
lions of people, in process of time, will
learn the important fact that they are fifty
millions strong"
Governor Gray, Of Indiana, in message
to the Legislature of that State in January
last, said:
I'm my Judgment the republic cannot
live long in the atmosphere which now sur
rounds the ballot-box. Moneyed corpora
tions, to secure favorable legislation for |
themselves, are taking an active part in |
elections by furnishing large sums of
money to corrupt the voter and purchase |
special privileges from the Government. If |
money can control the decision at the bal |
lot-box it will not be long until it can con-
troll its existence.
The San Jose Mercury relates that
worthy young woman was recently ex-
PEELED from the Normal School The |
mother wanted to know why. The Precep- |
tress told her that the charge was that her
daughter iran up and down stairs one of
the Professors said she 'talked too loud"
and the Principal said that "she sometimes !
sneezed so loud as almost to raise the roof |
off the building" The real reason is al
legged to be that the girl had written let
ter to a friend in San Jose, in which she
had questioned the veracity of one of the
teachers in a certain matter. The letter
fell into the hands of the step-father
of the person to whom it was addressed,
who forwarded it to Governor Perkins, who
sent it to the Trustees, who gave it to the
Principal. The Mercury denounces the ex-
oulsion and demands the girls reinstate-
nent
The debris question still agitates the ed
torial mind in California The mountain
editor is for ''slickens" and the valley edi-
tor is for agriculture Rufe Shoemaker,
who runs the Free Lance up in Nevada
county, has the arrogance to announce that
Il the mines had not run the rich and furtil-
down in to the valley, nothing
could ever have been raised in California
In short, Shoemaker holds that birds-eye
porphyry and good quartz ground out and
distributed over the soil make the very des-
sert blossom with roses, cabbages, turnips,
and nighHblooming cereus The valley men
ire wondering how they can refute these
assertions
It will be cheering to patent outsiders
md people who write communications for
country newspapers to learn that the Pa
,ifc Press Free Lunch Association has re-
solved to admit to membership all editors
reporters and correspondents of Pacific
Coast newspapers. The association was