Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-18
QUERIES FOR
Or Guinan Seeks information
Regarding the Prosperity Wave.

ARSON CITY, New, March Il. 1898.
EDITOR MISUNDERSTANDING News
contained an interview with Ex-Governor
Colcord, who has just returned from a
siN weeks trip to the East.
We are informed in that interview that
the Governor found things in excellent
condition., as was the case in all of the
manufacturing States. The houses and
fences were nicely painted and there was
that unmistakable appearance of thrift
that indicates good times,' etc. For one
l am glad to learn that such a happy con-
dltlon has settled upon the great East.
and L hope the Rocky Mountains Will
not prove a barrier to its extension to-
ward the West.
This is the first news we have received
of the fulfiIlment of that promise. made
by the gold standard party. nearly two
years since, that the wave of prosperity
would sweep yer our land, if the Re
publican party would win in the election
of 1896.
While We will all rejoice in the happy
condition of the East, especially in the
manufacturing States,' we are amazed
at the falsehoods and misleading state
ments made in all of the papers publish
ed III the East as well as the rest of the
lnlted States, for the last wear or more.
FOR instance, those unreliable organs, the
newspapers, were filled for weeks and
months with narrowing tales of the coal
miners in Pennsylvania and other Goa
producing localities. 1t was told rs that
Their wages, already at starvation prices.
were reduced, and that in their despair.
they had struck for higher wages: that
while they were pursuing peaceable and
lawful methods in their efforts. manv of
them were shot down. not under law but
py the mandates of patriotic capitalists,
whose best wishes and prayers are al
ways for the welfare of the country. es-
peclally the masses.
Heart rendlng scenes We're depicted by
those same newspapers of the unhappy
condition Of the wives and orphans Of
those who had been killed bv the pat-
rlotlc outburst OF the capitalists. If such
stores were not utter fabrications.
would ask the Governor how the houses
and fences of those victims look: and if
the wages of those men who were not
killed have been raised TO such a degree
as to enable them to make a decent liv-
ing for themselves and families.
1t is a very short time since that the
papers We're filled, daily. with accounts
of reduction of wages ofthe operatives in
the manufacturing establishments of all
New England Thousands went out on
a strike II it was feared that the vast
number Of one hundred and fifty thous-
and would join their ranks. Have their
wages been restored, or what change of
fortune has come over those unhappy
tollers to enable them to paint their
houses and fences" and give them such
"unmlstakable appearances of thrift"
After considering this matter thorough-
ly, cannot but regret that the Governor
was not a little more specific in his
statements concerning whose "houses
ana fences were painted. And the
query suggests itself, We're they in the
John Sherman and Mark Hanna class?
1t is a historical fact that John Sher-
man mas been noted for a quarter of a
century tor Keeping his fences in repair
and no one has even heard anv COM
plant against Mark Hanna in that re-
spect- What a happy lot it is to be a ten
ant farmer. The farmers of this country
are the back bone and sinew of the land
and more than seventy-five per cent of
these people nave lost their farms in the
last twenty years and have become ten
ant farmers How | envy them their
good fortune. Respectfully,
j. GUINAN.