The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-10
WHERE WORKERS
GET THEIR DUE.
Nevada Is Not a Rotten
Borough" In Any
Sense.


that the Chicago Dispatch published
the following communication from
County Assessor Prudential during
his recent stay in that city. 1t is part
of the article written at the request
of silver men there, as mentioned
last week. III
To the Editor: The goldbug
papers of the east call the state of
Nevada ''the Rotten Borough and
heap all kinds of abuse on her.
They claim that the silver craze is
only in the interest of few silver
miners, and that the country at large
will not be benefited by any legisla-
ton that will tend to give silver an
established ratio with gold Let us
see how Nevada stands and it's labor
ing class, who believe in silver, as
compared with the east, which is
welded to gold.
The state of Nevada owes nothing
outside of its state. Her bonds are
held by the state school fund; there
are less mercantile failures there than
in any other state in the union; elev-
en- out of every thirteen laboring
men who have families to support
own their homes, and their homes
are free from mortgage; seventeen
out of every twenty farmers own
their own farms, have no rents to
pay, and do not have to lie awake at
night studying how they are going to
meet the interest on the mortgage
when it becomes due.
There are but three mortgages on
record on farms in the whole county
of Lincoln, and one other county
in the State shows better state of
affairs. The suffering and want that
is found in the east among the work
ing classesthe laboring classes ofNey-
ada are strangers to; the laboring
classes of Nevada wear better clothes
have better meals and receive
more of the comforts of this life than
they do in the east.
They (the goldbugs) claim that by
reducing the wages of the miners the
mines can be worked at profit with
silver at so cents per ounce. Do
they want to make serfs of the labor
ing men of the west because they
have done so in the east, force man
to work for such wages that it will be
hand-to mouth living, unable to put
by few dollars for rainy day, OF
to be able to make their last days
when old age has overtaken them one
of comfort, and all for what
That the stockholders of corpor-
alton might have all the comforts oi
this life and part Of the next at thu
expense of the labor and miserable
existence of their employees.
Thank God, we have little NOR
regard for the welfare and comfor
of the laboring class than this, anC
it is this one thing we have beel
fighting for, "our rights and tn
rights of the employed We wan
to better ourselves, and we can do
when we receive what is due us.
We have been travelling down hi
for twenty-four years, but we hav
not travelled as fast as the workin
class of the east. Our condition
20 per cent better than theirs, an
just as soon as the laboring class
the east can be brought to judge fo
their own interest instead of the co
porations and will vote their intere
the time will come, then. that the
condition will be bettered.
The goldbugs claim that the coui
try will be ruined if silver is reno
etized. How do they know it? Al
they gifted with more Intelligent
than the bimetallist or are they mo
than human that they can see III
the future and see the result? Ha
they ever tried itP
Before pronouncing sentence
fair and impartial trial should
given. We ask no more and If AFT
fair trial it is found that we q
at fault and that the country will
better off on a gold basis and silly
as fuctuating metal we will be p
fectly willing to crawl into our lit
hole and pull the hole in after us.
That trial we have been strivi
for, and although capital triumph
in 1896, the year 1900 will find
labor banner with Bryan at its he
on the way to the White House a
to use popular song of to-day,
will hear "Oh, / don't know, we
not so slow, there were some go
bugs but they're not in town"
H. E. FREUDENTHAL,
Assessor Lincoln County Neva
Votes are coming in the bea