Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-04-03
COULD AND HOXIE.

toward Powderly and Irons of the
Knights of Labor has been strictly
in accordance with their old time
policy of dealing with the public.
Their interviews have been charac-
terlzed by double dealing and cum
ming on one side, and fair, manly
course on the other.
For the past twenty years Jay
Gould has been the brazen apostle
of fraud and the arch iend Of
thievery and rapaclty. By the
purchase of jurors and Courts, by
bribery, corruption and bulldoZlng,
by foul dealing and treachery, and
by heartless plumber of the poor
who work upon his lines, lie has
amassed one of the most colossal
fortunes of his time,
We doubt if he could go ON the
stand without perjuring himself and
swear that a thousand dollars of
that money was absolutely free
from the faint of fraud. The cut
of the mans face comes nearer be-
ing counterfeit Of the devils than
any man now in public life. Hoxie,
his lieutenant, is man moulded
much after the same fashion, and
is tool doing the bidding Of his
master.
The Knights of Labor have en-
tered the lists to battle with these
two men and their millions.
Out of the depths of poverty and
want comes the cry of distress;
from the white lips of famine the
moan of dispair, from the heart of
trodden toll a prayer for justice;
and to these supplications these
spawns of monopoly turn needless
ear.
In thousand tenement houses
in New York, wretched children
toss in fevered, filthy beds. dying
before their parents eyes, because
a father who works for dollar a
day cannot afford the luxury of
physician.
In the West men are fighting
the wolf of want, and wearing their
lives away at dollar and twenty
cents day, upon which they are
expected to support a wife and
family, while they realize that a
single glass of wine drunk by
Gould at his dinner costs as much
as they can earn by fourteen hours
Of toll.
Well may men be excused from
believing III the justice of Heaven
when patient, law abiding, honest men
wallow in the slums Of poverty and
degradation, while the sleek thieves
and pampered rascals they work
for break the laws with impnnity,
defy public opinion, and live on
the fat of every cline.
The sodden slaves of wealth, de-
prived of the means by which they
might educate themselves, robbed
of the time for self improvement,
lose faith in the idea that the prac-
tice of right brings any good results
to themselves, give up the idea of !
leading an honest life, and essay, in
a small way to emulate the plum
dering operations Of their masters.
The law which overlooks the large
offender looses no time in fastening
its grip upon its smaller violaters,
and thus the Penitentiaries are
filled with men, who, had they
been decently treated would have
made good citizens.
The times are manifestly out Of
joint when such glaring carica-
lures of justice are seen every
where, and every good citizen who
would like to see the country de-
livered from the rule of rascals,
should lend every possible sup
port to the organization which
Is now striving to cut away the net
work Of steel which now binds the
United States, hand and foot.
That such men as Gould and his
understrappers escape the lyncher's
hemp is an excelle mt proof that the
citizens Of America are law abid-
ing and long sIf ering people.