Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-05-10

| wei! SalQ LDab no man ever SnOul-
dered a musket in defense Of a
boarding house. While the country
needs free coinage Of silver at .
ratio Of l6 to with gold, it needs
even more than that, free coinage Of
homes aud of LAND owners at . ratio
of l6 to / with tenements and land
less paupers. Capital is idle as
we'll as LABOR, and both are today in
search Of jobs. Can We devise a
/ plan by which these two forces can
be joined on terms that will be sat
isfactorv to Doth? We must fad 4
principle and method capable of in
definite expansion, for we want
millions of men and millions of
money.
| believe that in our public lands
aud waters we have the basis of
security sufficient to furnish the
capital which, with human labor,
will create a civilization upon our
voiceless deserts To illustrate,
suppose we have one hundred fami-
lies who have merely enough money
to reach Nevada. and who would
require $500 to enable them to start
and be sustained until the land was
productive, II they take 40 acre
farms aud give security upon the
be $3.50 per acre. Is that good
security? Remember that besides
water and land, human industry
and the hunger for independence
stand behind it. Are there any
improved irrigated farms for sale
today in Carson Valley for SO. 80
per acre, or double, or treble that
amount? According to the census
of 1890 the average value Of i'm
proved irrigated land in Nevada was
s41 per acre Throughout the arid
region the average was $S3 per
acre. | believe we can make colo
MES on the Plymouth plan which
will be very attractive, and will
rally tens of thousands of good citi-
zens to our support. I believe We
can furnish security that will com
mand the confidence Of capital IF
we can make one colony on this
basis we can make one thousand.
MAKE COLONY IN NEVADA.
| am ready to cooperate with your
people in planting the first labor
colony in Nevada. On the basis of
$500 per family and five members |
each. one hundred thousand dollars
would make colony of two hundred
families or one thousand people.
With Que million dollars We could
make homes for two thousand fami-
lies, or ten thousand people. New
York City spent last winter twenty
two million dollars for charity,
every dollar of which was given in a
way to make men dependent rather
than independent. Today Now York
City is utilizing vacant city lots and
teaching the poor to raise potatoes
as a means of support. The city pays
SIS per acre merely to fertilize these
lots. The same investment would
make prosperous homes for these
people in Nevada. I believe we can
colonize ten thousand acres here if
your people will lend me their CO.
operation. | believe such a colony
would inaugurate new chapter ia
your history | should aim TO OBJ
tain native born Americans Of the
sturdiest sort, who have been crowd :
I'd down and out by our modern in
lustrial forces IL Massachusetts
alone labor saving machinery is do
ng the work of one hundred million t
men. Do you wonder that there are {
people who need labor and homes?
The Canadian has driven the native :
New Highlander from the cotton s
Mills. The Italian has supplanted |
lin in the shoe shops. That's why the ,,
native New Englander is ready to
,ome West and lend his Yankee head !
md hand to the work of making /
mother New England under the
hadow of the Sierras d
NEvADA's OPPORTUNITY =
The people of Nevada are too meek v