Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-03-30
DEFENDS HIS STATE.
Caustic Reply to a Critical Phlla-
deIphian.

AOS W - u W we
United States Senate. Wash, D G
Dear Sir:-Ihe inclosed editorial ia
from the Public Ledger, the paper Of
the late George w. Childs, and ex,
presses the feeling Of many thous ands
here.
We believe that while the disgrace
is prominently upon your state, yet
in a less degree every state in the
Union shares it, and | sincerely trust
that your high position and influence
may be used tC remove forever the
burning shame that covers us all.
Truly. c. WALTER BORToN.
The following is the S"n>tor's reply:
March &c, 1897.
c. Walter Borton, Esq,
Dear Sir:-Your letter Of the 10Th
inst. is received, inclosing an edi-
torial from the Public Ledger, which
is a violent aud vindictive attack
upon my state.
You assert that the editorial in
question expresses the feeling OF
many thousands in Philadelphia. If
that be so, why has the public press
in your city and throughout the East
given more space to the advertise.
ment OF the contest in Carson between
Corbett and Fitzsimmons than to any
other event Of the current year, not
excepting the Inauguration Of the
President of the United States. Ii
you were sure Of the purity and I'M
Philadelphia and other large cities Of
the East. there might be some excuse
for your cratuitous insult to me per-
sonally Your hypocrisy in Offering
the insult proves that your nature is
lot wholly deprayed.
Hypocrisy is the tribute which vice
pays virtue.
Or, in the words Of Milton:
Even spirits damned have not all
virtue lost,
Lest bad men boast their specious
deeds on earth.
Your condemnation Of the sins of
others, three thousand mills a4av,
however severe and unreasonable, in
dictates that your surroundings in
Philadelphia have not deprived you Of
the satisfaction of the Pharisees Of
old when they they thahked God that
they were not as other men.
We atone for sins we are inclined to.
By damning those we have no mind
to.
The assumption iu your letter that
the charges against your city Of i'm
morality, corruption, ballot-box stuff
ing, and etealing from the poor to
give to the Itch, have no foundation
in fac1, will astonish no one who has
studied the peculiar characteristics OF
the hypocrite. [ am glad to inform
you that no citizen of Nevada has
ever been COMPELLED to defend that
State against ballot-bOx stuffing
fraud or intimidation at elections, OF
taking from the poor TO give to the
rich, or secretly to~lerating the gross
est immortality, including the most
brutal form of prize fighting, and
THEORETICALLY pretending that such
practices do not exist.
[ do not propose to discuss the
morality or immortality Of prize fight
ing, but challenge a comparison oil
the virtue, morality, and respect FOL
law o. the people of Nevada with thai
Of the people Of Philadelphia or any
other Eastern city, and assert, with
Out fear Of contradiction, that the
danger to the perpetuity Of Republican
institutions and the preservation OF
equal rights, does not come from Ne.
vada, nor from any of the sparsely
settled States of the West, but from
the great cities Of wealth, poverty, auC
d~epravity are cOngested, and the evi.
pa sions of men permeate society.
When harmful sports, such as foot
ball and other demOralizing, are
abandoned when the wickedness OF
the cunning sharps OF the great cities
in robbipg the producers of the whole
country is eliminated when the habit
Of pretending not to see prize fights
and other practices far more immoral
which constantly occur in every city
Of the East is reformed; when a free
allot and aD honest count such as
prevail in Nevada are secured when
the cloak OF hypocrisy is no longer
necessary to conceal rotteness at home
the people of Nevada will welcome
missionaries from the East to teach
the morality and virtue which they
themselves practice. AS matter rs now
stand the people Of Nevada say unto