Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-10-06
THROUGH COURIER CLASSES
How a Carson Correspondent Re,
CARDS OrmsbY Tax Dodgers

The following Carson correspond
ence appears in the Genoa Courier:
Editor Courier The past season at
the lake has been a prosperous ore.
The mills will run just as long as the
weather will let them. The loggers
who have returned from the lake say
that there is a great deal If stuff on
hand for the PILLS TO turn out. Be
sides getting out such logs as the for
est generally affOrds-that is, come as
they will-they have gotten out many
special orders for large, long, clean
timbers.
The fair is ? drawing card this year,
there being several goOd horses on the
track. But all the villiany is con
nected with it that seems to be part
and parcel of a fair. The town is
filled with gamblers, hlacklegs, pimps,
FOUNDERS and tramps, and the country
sucker can have his choice as to how
he best likes to be skinned.
Carson has given itself up wildly to
pleasure. We have a comic theater, a
15-cent show, R~ancovieri's Band, Paul
list Fathers, the Fair and last but not
the least funny of u macy diver
sions, VIZ have the Board Of Equaliza-
ton drawing packed houses every day
men drawn there under notice why
they should not pay other mems taxes.
Outsiders enjoy our situation. and
so could we, if we didn't have to put
up.
I can readily imagine hat fear may
so overcome a person when marching
against shot, shell, grape and canister
as to make him turn and run. We
call such people craven and have
passed laws putting it in almost any
body's hands to shoot them down, and
we applaud the act. But Icannot con-
ceive how any man can be so abiect,
so low, so despicable that in times of
peace, with C~ornucOpias horn pouring
wealth upon him, Sinking his duty
in bearing the brunt of civil govern
ment and making his weak and poor
brother pay more than his share. l
cannot conceive how a man can re-
ceive all the benefits, and all the pro-
lection afforded US by being banded
together in a civil compact for our
mutual good and advantage, and per
lure himself to escape his share Of the
burden, and that there should be no
lei Of redress, to say nothing of
allowing the home guards to practice
Oh him.
The only explanation I can give is
that the perjured tax-dodger is the
man who has the most to protect, and
he is the mar who has moulded public
opinion through the press until hui
mainly believes it is a crime to fear a
cannon ball, when another mans mil
lions and other NEAR of oppression
are in danger Of diminution, which
should be punished with instant death ;
and on the other hand the poor man
and proportionately heavy Taxpayer
has so neglected his own interests in
the matter of legislation that to shirk
the civil battle is no offense at all, but
simply a cunning device which finds
ready pardon in heaven.
Tell me, how can a soul, resting in
side Of a frame blessed with the most
lavish stores of fruitful earth, be SC
shrivelled, palsied and paralyzed, as
to permit it to raise it's hand to God
and swear that all it owns on the face
Of the earth is fully represented in its
report to the Assessor? How can 6
thing become SO %ungrateful to its
Maker?
Come, We church pillars and politi
cal powers and take a peep at yer pic
ture. Quelquefois.