The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-03-03
poETsY AND H~ROIs VI OF LABOR


James Whitcomb Kelley says that he
is going to write an epic poem on the
subject of labor. To Pittsburg reporter
he said: "There is poetry in the whistle
Of steam boats, the whrr of machinery
and the noise of industry. AS much
heroism is displayed daily in these great
Pittsburg workshops as in nightly sally
from castle in olden times" Ex.
That's right Mr.. Riley. There is
Loetry in the whistle Of steamboats,, the
whirr cf machinery and the noise of in
dustry. There is heroism displayed in
those great Pittsburg shops and we are
glad that you know it and will make use
of your knowledge. Bat visit this sec.
tion before you get done writing poetry
about labor. Look over the accounts of
the various mining companies of Nevada
and see what an enormous amount of
wealth has been given to the world by
our now derided State. Go down to San
Francisco and gaze upon the palatial
residences of the Bay city built with
money wrested from the treasury of
mother earth in Nevada, by the sweat
and toll of Nevada's pioneers and her
''eone and sinew" of earlier days Look
over the books Of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, that financial octo-
pus whose giant aims are extended over
our main resources and through whose
Auxing channels much Of our life blood
has been saprea away, within whose
deadly embrace the fair city of San Fran
cisco, and California, the State of beauty,
wonders and abundance, struggle power.
less to free themselves; look over their
books and see how much OF its profits
were derived from the silver mines OF
Nevada. Count the tons of bullion Of
silver gone forth to enrich and beautify
the world; count the car loads, the train
loads, Of merchandise brought here and
consumed by our people. Go through
all the world and pick up the evidences
of the good that Nevada has done. Ask
the wholesale merchants of Chicago,
New York and San Francisco; seek the
iron founders of Pennsylvania; inquire
of the lumber dealers of the east and Of
the west, what good Nevada has done
Then come and take look at our de.
serted towns, our neglected farms, ouI
abandoned shafts and tunnels, our idle
and rusting machinery and our toilinl
hopeless people, and see if you can fnd
where the world has done good to New
ada. Then take in your hand a fv.
dollar piece Of gold and five silver dolari
and, gazing upon them, solve the ques
tion as to which costs the most labor
that true measure Of all values. Then i
you decide in favor of the gold lv,
dollar piece write the requiem of Nevad
and OF labor, for her cause the cause o
silver is the c,use Of labor and with al
favor thrown upon the gold side he
cause is lost; her work is done.
But decide that it costs as much labo
to produce the five silver dollars as
does the gold FIVE dollars. proclaim it an
the the world accept it and there is hope
Then will our mines re open and you ca
enjoy listening to the whirr of the hoist
ing engine and the steady monstrou
rumble Of the dropping stamps and e,
tract therefrom all the poetry you wan,
You can 60 through the mines and fin
heroes noble ones-an army of ther
toiling and delving by candle light I
enrich and benefit the world by assistin
the cause Of the labor of which they al
themselves part. Then you can r'
visit the farming districts, the valleys
grain and fruitful orchards and writ
poetry Of the pleasantness and indepel
dence Of rural life. Yes Mr.. Rilt
come out here by oil means before "
nave written all about labor that y,
care to, and we think you will mu,
more fully realize that in labor there
poetry and heroism Of most high a,
noble kind
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