The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-04-14
A NEW DEPARTURE.
SvyIndlng Minimizing Companies Ought
TO be shown UP.

to be shown Up.
The following, which we find in the
Lundy Index, written by John 1.
CHM, is every word true, and appli-
cable to many localities besides Lun-
dy. Our own District is just now ex-
periencing its "dark day" through
the very cause which the Index
denounces /:
With the resumption of publication of the
Index, we have resolved to take a new de-
parture from the passive course too generally
pursued by journals published in mining
communities towards adventurous. who rush
in-on unauthorized "cheek. !" and without a
dollar, bat with tho most extrayagant repre-
sentation of their "backing''-to develop
mines at the expense of the community upon
which such ~vulturos pounce. The timidity
Of editors in this respect crises from fear Of
the cry of "blackmaill" for this is the first
last and loudest cry of the heightened adven-
turer and gentlemanly swindler the moment
his true character is exposed; and he seldom
fails to threaten the press with this cry il he
finds he cannot bend it to his purpose, thus
blackmailing the press into silence, while the
community suffers from his depredations.
If, to caution the people against the oily
tongues and sugar-coated swindles of such
constituencies scamps, and against kindred
wildcat mining companies of massive pre-
tensions and microscopic means, is to "black-
mail you may as well put us down as a
blackmailer. for We intend hereafter to
promptly expose and duly den ounce all ras-
Gals. whether mining thieves of lofty mien or
mule thieves devoid Of ostentation.
The honest people of this little community
miners, mechanics, laborers. tradesmen.
teamsters. packers and incidentally all classes
scattered over an area of six by fourteen
miles, have suffered grievously the past six
months from their inability to realize from
the moro than $50, 600 due them from the class
of men alluded to. To give even an outline
Of the suffering this state Of affairs has en-
tailed upon dependent innocent ones else
where during the winter and We know Of a
number OF cases., would make the readers
blood run cold. And all this while the ad
Yenturers. whose reckless disregard and
lofty and even expressed contempt for the
rights Of their fsllow-man brought on this
J bitter experience, were rolling in luxury far
from the scenes Of their crafty %.riumphs.
There are scores of rich and valuable min
ing properties in this and adjacent districts,
but 1t will take capital to place them, or a
majority OF them, on a paying basis. Resi-
dent muscle cannot do it without aid, though
resident muscle has done much. without pay,
toward developing mining properties in these
districts-for outside adventures Better
that the mines lie idle till capital seeks them
and the men work only for such people as
pay promptly and regularly, or strike out
for new fields, than that this state of affairs
continue; for the sense of these repeated
wrongs and robberies has sunk so deep into
the souls of the sufferers that some day u
reckoning may come in tho form of violence
that will shock the sensibilities of law-abid-
ing citizens. Private internal wrangles over
dictatorship. management or superintendent
ey is no excuse for non-payment. When
these arise the mine work should be suspend
ed, unless the money is ready to pay for labor
and supplies, instead of keeping numbers of
men at work for months without pay, for it
has been the sad misfortune of this commune
" to experience the repeated contradiction of
the axiom that when rogues fall cut honest
men get their dues"