The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-11-14

W
IT FEEL IT MY DUTY TO MAKE A FEW RE
MARKS"
arrove heah to make q speech befo' dis
club. Most of yo' will remember de
speech. 1t had to do wild de rights of
man, an it appeared to make out dat
one man was jest as good as another,
10 matter bout his color or de length
of his heels. Instead of gwine back
home arter maxim dat speech de Hon.
Clingstone decided to hang around fur
q spell, an he's hangln yit. If Samuel
Shin an Glveadam Jones want to take
a free boarder into DER houses, l hev
nothin to say ag'in it, but de time has
arrove when l want to say sunthin
bout de rights of man.
at has panied an grieved me to OBJ
sarve de effect of dat speech. Feelin
dat he was as good as any other man
on airth, Waydown Bebee has put a
mortgage on his mewl to buy hisself a
SIS panama hat. Six weeks ago Elder
Penstock was satisfied to drink cold
water an eat de cowcumbers an toma-
toes growed in his Owl garden. Yester-
day he was maxim root beer by de gal
lon an orderin ice cream for his Sun
day dinner. A few days ago Pickles
Smith would hev climbed ober de fence
to make room fur a white man to pass,
but today he wants all de road fur his
self. l notice q swagger In de gait of
Nicodemus White an a surprisin air of
independence in de way Jedge Carter
walks into q grocery an inquiries de
price of pineapples. Two months ago
Jubilation Scott was so humble dat he
dasn't argue dat Columbus dlskiyered
America. but dis AFTERNOON he was
around town offerin to lick any man
who denied dat Noah's ark was paint
ed blue. | see a change in Watermelon
Carter, Emancipation Jones an State
Rights Green, an l see it in Kurnel
Cabiff, Shutdown Jackson an Come
along Harper.
"In his speech befo' dis club de Hon.
Clingstone was fool huff to deelar' dat
de Lawd erected all men ekal an meant
dat n man should hev jest as much
right as another, an yo' hev evidently
bin asses huff to believe 1t an act &C.
cordingly. If somebody dun told yo'
dat all bosses was created ekal an dat
n scrub boss was jest as good as a race
boss, yo'd laugh at him. Yo' put it
right down in black an white dat deir's
bout fo'teen different sorts of men in
dis world an dat when a one Y man
rttc 10 ;doo dat bof, nc GOOD nc m
XXXX man he's breedin trubble fur
hisself.
"De Hon. Clingstone GIBBS US to I'M
derstand dat one man has Jest as
much right to dis worlds goods as an
other, an some of yo' are idiots huff
to believe hin. De only right yo' hev
got Is to aira yo'r way. If yo' kin git
a few dollars ahead an make dem few
dollars bring yo' In a few mo-, OATS
all right, but yo' jest keep yo'r hands
off de basket of cokernuts In front of
de grocery. People am gwine around
to say dat no nan has q right to be
WORT a millyon dollars while another
mar wants fur bread. Oar amt no
question of right or wrong bout 1t.
One man will git ahead Of another In
dis world in money maxim, an yo' can't
help it. Yo' might as well say dat one
boss had no bizness to win a race while
another boss was foolln his tine away
yit bon In dis world who didn't hey q
chance to git along. Mebbe he has to
begin life in a sawmill, but 1t depends
upon hisself how long he stays dar.
When yo' find a pusson arguin dat all
property orter be divided UP, yo' Jest
trace him back an YOU find dat he's sot
on de fence thirty days fur cherry day
he's worked. He aches to git sunthin
fur nuthin. l reckon yo1l find de Hon.
Clingstone to be n of dis sort. In de
spring, while other folks am plantin
watermillyons, he's shooting craps or
sleepin in de sun. When de summer
comes an de watermillyons am ripe,
bizness to hev one hundred millyons
while another has none.
"Yo' want to understand dat a man
am what he am. He's hisself an no
body else. De Lawd didn't put him
yere to be great or small or poor. It's
all left to hisself as to what he shall
become. Yo' must gin him half de road,
an he must do de same by yo'. De man
who gifts de idea into his head dat be-
kase he happened to be bon he's Jest
as good as any one who cum befo' him
Is half fool. | have dis eavenin sent
word to de Hon. Ciingstone Johnson