Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-11-28

Our Senators and Congress-
men in Getting the Mint Re-
opened.
Men of Carson, awake from your
lethargy! Arouse your dropping
energies and try to do something
for yourselves. An Independent
people feeling themselves wronged
or injured in any way, have a right
to resent the wrong and to redress
the injury. A free people knowing
that their rights are invaded, need
not ask permission of any person
on earth as to how they shall resist
such invasion.
This is the situation Of the citi-
zens of Carson, for while the clos
ing of the Mint in this city is a
subject for earnest protest on the
part of every inhabitant Of the
State, it is particularly so for those
who live in Carson. Therefore, to
them 1 address myself. 1t is they
who must stand the brunt of the
contest; it is they who must lead
the movement. For, while it may
be plain to US that in struggling for
the re-opening of the Mint, we are
fighting the battle Of the people of
the entire State, we mustn not be de-
tered by the fact that they are
careless or Indifferent. This should
stir US up to more earnest en-
deayor.
The adjustment of the Mint at
this place should be prevented if
possible. It's continuance here is
living question to US all. One that
comes home to the heart and hearth
of every citizen.
Do you know what The closing of
the Mint would result in?
1t would result in the withdrawal
of much CAPITAL now invested in
mining, and the Withholding of
much more that would otherwise
have come here. For the closing
of the Mint, even without the
specific declaration of the Director
of the MINIS, says to the world that
the Treasury Department Of the
United States has come to the con-
clusion that the mines of Nevada
have been worked out, and that
they never again will be able to
furnish sufficient bullion to keep
the Mint employed.
We all know that this is not
true. We know that the output of
bullion throughout the State has
been steadily increasing for the
past Eye years. The fact could be
shown to the President of the
United States, and it should be
shown to him.
How to do this in the best and
strongest way possible is matter
for the people to decide, for it is
reasonable to suppose that when
the whole thing is plainly laid be-
fore the President, and the present
conspiracy made manifest, he will
give the necessary orders to have
the wrong righted. This appears
all the more probable when one re-
fleets that all the curtailing orders
thus far have come only from the
Director of the MINIS and the Treas.
urer of the United States. They
have not eninated even from the
Secretary of the Treasury, the head
of the Department, but are merely
the dicta Of his subordinates.
This then cannot be absolutely as
sured to be the policy of the Presi-
dent, for so far as known he has not
spoken on the subject. He might
be induced to overturn these arbi-
trary, unjust and illegal orders.
The main reason given by the
Director of the MINIS for closing
the Carson Mint is that it costs
more to produce a coin here than it
does at the MINIS of San Francisco,
New Orleans and Philadelphia. Is
it, then, the policy Of the present
administration to conduct the bust
ness of Nation of sixty million
inhabitants on the same principle
as those which govern the opera
tions of . peanut-stand ? 1t would
be unreasonable to even hint such
thing. In NO other department
of the Government is such theory
advanced. The policy of the Amer
lean Government is that the rights
of the people are to be conserved