Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-04-10

Il HUE HoiSSSHoC magnet tudt uSSu "
delight me in boyhood days. won
dered much at its strange power 10 at
tract to itself little bits OF iron and
steel that came near it, but now have
lost my childish wonder in the httle
magnet. in seeing other things animate
and inanImate possessed Of that pecu.
liar power, in seeing corporations and
the wealthy SO strongly magneuzed that
even Judges OF the Federal bench
cling 10 them. Talk about boycotung,
why The Chinaman is the king OF boy.
cotlers, he boycotts American manu-
faclurers when he buys his goods IN
China; he boycotts our worklngmrn and
artisans when he works for such prices
that il is impossible to compete with
him. The Chinese boycotted the whole
world when they built the great wall
of China. II China should land upon
our shores an armed force the world
would applaud our Resistance, yet here
armies of them are coming in form
more dangerous to our country than if
heralded by the fash of their bayonets,
and the music of their cannon, and are
we to submit Shall Pharaoh's dream
of old find realization on the shores Of
the Pacific Shall we permit the 'lean
kline to eat up the 'fat kline ? Most
emphatically, / answer No. We have
been driven TO the last extremity, to the
last outpost, and here we take our
stand. 1t is the boycott to-day, or the
bayonet tomorrow. We claim 1t and
we will use it. Without force, and
threatening not, we will make the enc
mics to this movement feel that ire
mendous force Of public opinion which
even Capt. Boycott and the English
soldiery could not Withstand. 1t is a
right inherent in our civilization. 1t is
one of the pillars appearing our temple
OF liberty. The world is full of it. Il
is as old as the hills. 1t began in the
Garden of Eden. 1t made Cain a
wanderer. 1t drove Hagar and Ishmael
into the wilderness. The Scriptures
contain many other instances of it. An
cient and modern history are replete
with ii. Every city, town and hamlet
in Christendom sees in some form or
other its daily application. 1t hasre.
ceived the sanction Of ages. In all
times and all places has it been ac-
copied Legitimate weapon. 1t has
passed current too many centuries, for
the almond. eyed worshipers to stamp it
spurious now. There is no law born of
God or man that says we must cherish
in our bosoms the germs Of our destruc-
ton. Just before the battle Of Trafal-
gar, Nelson sent 10 the masthead of
his flagship the signal England expects
every man to do his duty A thousand
cheers rent the air, and the gallant tars
of England feeling the inspiration
fought and conquered. We are on the
eve of battle more important than
Trafalgar. We fling to the breeze our
banner, our signal, the boycott, and
cheer after cheer peals forth as hun.
dred thousand strong we march to vic.
tory" d
Arson Burlingame, the Senate and
State department were severely scored
for making the infamous Burlingame
treaty. The utter futility OF expecting
relief from Congress was shown in elo.
queht and imprisoned language.
The speaker said, referring to Con.
gress; "We have petilioned, memoir
allied and supplicated Congress, until
the heart grows weary. Our supplica-
tons have met with insult, contumely
and scorn, till at last that God-given
right-self preservation bursts into be.
ing, and we fnd ourselves, like Miner
va springing from the brain of love,
fully armed and able to cope with every
adversary. Most of the towns on the
coast are unit on the matter. Enthusi.
asm is in the air and flashing from town
to town, as Byron describes the thunder
storm:
From peak 20 peak. the ra ting crags among.
Leaps the live thunderl Not from one lone
cloud,
But every mountain now hath found tongue,
Aud Jura answers. through her misty shroud,
Back to the Joyous Alps. who call to her
aloud
The conclusion was as follows
"Thank God the night is over and
morning dawns; thank God the mana.
cles OF Coolielsm forged upon US by a
knavish Senate and a renegade Ameri-
can, are burst asunder; Americans are
rallying in defence of their liberties;
the fires OF patriotism yet are burning;
the souls Of our ancestors still live in
the bosoms of their descendants, and
rather than submit this fair land of our
inheritance to blight AMI dishonor, from
hoary age to helpless infancy we will
form one united bulwark and oppose
our breasts to every foe. The mists and
clouds which have for SO long lowered
over US, are breaking and dispensing.
The horizon widens, and in the vista,
see where was once thousands of
Cinnamon in workshop, factory and
forest-white men earning a fair com.
pensation. Where was once, broad
ields and countless miles of our fairest