Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-18

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A New York evening paper thinks
that Nevada should "plans.a red dag
on one of her lofty peaks and ring the
bell for an auctioneer." II thinks 30
because her population is decreasing
rapidly and two Of her prominent cities
are falling into decay. Both are sadly
true. Il il fact that Virginia City and
Gold Hill, within whose corporate limits
was embraced the mos. wonderful de-
posit of geld and silver the world has
ever known, are. compared with their
condition ave years ago, almost as Pom
peii and HercuIanerm. Yet there are
still vast SUES of treasure in the Com
stock lode. awaiting the time when the
grip of the merciless corporations which
have robbed the state compunctionless
shall be Embossed. Above aud beneath
those two cities is machinery superior
to any on earth for the purposes de-
signed, which cost millions upon mil
lions of dollars Into the cayernous
depths, down into the rock-bound fast
nesses. have been thrus. timber enough
to build cities. Dat from its hiding
place, torn from the rocks mid steam
and smoke, and from thick darkness,
have been dragged forth over $500, oo0.-
go in gold and silver, eacn ounce of
which was an intrinsic gain to this ma
ton and the world. Brave men have
met their fate like heroes in the vast
caverns which underlis those sitieS;
have gone down to their death by blasts,
by caves, by sufocation, by drowning in
hot water, by falling into almost un-
measured depths, leaving their wives
and little ones to mourn.
Men have gained vast fortunes from
the Comstock lode. Palatial mansions,
blocks Of brick and stone in San Fran
cisco and New York attest the wealth
dug from that treasure, house. And yet,
of all the men who by good luck, good
management or superior skill have gath
cred to themselves stupendous fortunes,
not one has ever in return presented to
the robbed and ravished Commonwealth
a single gift of thankfulness, a token of
kindly remembrance. These potentates
who, by the grace of the almighty dol
lar, have become distinctive features in
business and politics, have taken their
pIethoric sacks and hied themselves
away, leaving the people of that struR-
Cling State to feed upon the husks of
poverty and disappointment. A goodly
array it is-Flood so, OOO. 600, Fair $780,
000, 1000. Sharon 10000, 900. Mills $40.-
900 900, Mackay ga, 0OO, 900, O'Brien es-
tate $l5,0Os,OOO, the nucless of which
and the main part thereof came from
the COmstOck lode.
Nevada, however. will not be sold at
auction. Tho State Is not for sale. Her
owners are too wealthy to need the pal
try sum she would now bring under the
hammer Of the auotioneer. To the men
whose names We gave above together
with their slliss the nagnates who COLI
troll the Central Pacific railroad, that
State IL worth more than all
her Sn.00O.COO of taxable DROP
srtv. She II entitled to be repre-
ssntsd in the Congress Of the United
States By two Senators and q Rsprssen-
tatiye. These franchises are valuable.
They can be used TO elevate to national
view mon whose sole claim to oonsidera-
ton IL their money-boess, pro6iaates
and knaves. They oan be used 10 send
70 Warrington a. pablo Representatives
paid henehmen. laokegs, servants of
private Interests and ministers to COR
20 rate greed. These are factors in the
government Of these United States,
worth money and worth keeping. And
when 10 thess valuable elemslts Of pow
o. II added the machinery Of The State,
it Legislature, courts, exseutivs and
ministerial osAssEs with power to tax
the people ana exempt the corporations.
IL il not hard 10 10 that the value Of
suoh privileges must not be sliahtly e.
timated.
And yet there will come . new birth
to that State, and to her people progress
and prosperity. There will be an era
whom the men who now control her des-
TIMES will die, and q generation spring
up upon whose backs no burdens such
as weighted down their fathers have
tsen placed, around whose neoks no
collar has been riyeted and into whose
souls the iron Of Oft repeated defeat and
despair has NOT bsen driven. Il viii
not take long either. Nevada is rich in
gold and silver; rich in fertile valleys,
in most salubriOus climate. Her re-
sources are inexhaustible. Develop
msnt has only yet bsgun. Under favor
abba onditions which must eventually
arise, her population viii increase, pros
perity augment and wealth abound,
But not till both leRislation and compe-
tition shall have taken from tue necks
OF her people the heel of corporate mis-
rule.
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