Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-09-09
Carson and Virginia City Lend
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Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The kind words Of your worthy
chairman, undeserved though they
may be. are indeed highly apprect
aSed. '.Si y sas's :. .+'rA ..
sThe distinguished honor conferred
Oh me by your committee, IN selecting
ME as one of those to address you Oh
this glorious day, the first Of its kind
il the history of our State, is an honor
to which any man might we'll feel
proud, and one thoroughly appreci
ate ttrt
( To speak ON this broad subject in
ali its varied attributes would mean
the consumption of more of the valu-
able time of this important day, than
has been allotted me, and more than
l would be willing to take, even
though you would be lenient enough
to allow me to impose On your good
nature.
AS time rolled onward through the
successive generations, and the world
grew more populous, men scattered
forming themselves into bands and
communities, who, in their avaricious
ambitions for supremacy and the &C
QUESTION of wealth, gradually came in
to conflict with each other, and by
either ignoring or forgetting, or both,
the divine injunction that 'All men
were made to earn their bread by the
sweat of their brows,' substituted the
injunction that Some men can earn
their bread through the sweat of OF
her mems brows.'
This substitutional injunction, found
ed on the principle that Might makes
Right" Of the right Of the strong 20
Cypress the weak, the rich the poor,
caused the creation of the opposing
classes of pauper and prince, lord and
serf, master and slave, and as we have
it in this day, master and servent, and
was the origin of the gulf which exists
CA W ILLS udS, DCtWSCu tuC
istic class as distinguished from the
laboring mass, who are still obeying
that divine injunction imposed on us
b. Him who is Creator of all
This, my friends. is the mother rea-
son, without citing to you it's innu-
merable offsprings, which has been
the mysterious Tocsin, rung by the
toiling masses in the ears of those en-
powered to create laws, demanding of
them laws which would restore them
to an equal plane with their fellow
man
| AS we roll back the pages of histor.'
of mankind, from the inception Of the
universe, down to the time of the
Carpenter of Nazareth, who was the
first great friend and leader of the
laboring masses, continuing down
through the centuries of Christianity
to our present time, we find one con
tinuous effort on the part of the com
mon masses, to restrict, restrain and
regain the power so early usurped by
the governing classes.
But it was not until June 10, 1915
on the fields of Runnymede, after
twelve centuries of patient suffering
and submission, that the great hord,
lof common mankind first tasted tn,
sweet fruits of their unremitting eff
forts to elevate their condition, AM
saw the bright sun of liberty aris'
insuring man in his civil rights, whel
King John signed and delivered to tn
: barons of England that great docu
ment, sacredly proclaimed by all ne
tons to our arandest bulwark o
liberty, in the form of the Great Mas
; ma Charter.
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It is further q matter of historica
q record that it became absolutely nes
9 nessary at the time to actually han
+ many of the judges, in order to inspir
the judiciary with proper respe,
: for the law and the sacred trust in
e posed in them in entrusting into the
I hands it's just Interpretation.
But notwithstanding all this, tn
rights of the laboring masses wer
still held in bondage; as some one ha
laptly sid in referring to the times
Labor employed was serf; labor III
n employed vagabonds.'
e In Great Britain, up to the year 1872
l. it was, under the common law, a CT
minal conspiracy for workmen to cor
g bine to increase their wages, or
u fact to combine for any purpose a
n ainst their employers, but the statu
e of George w removed the penalt,
le and from this time onward to Of
present time the rights Of labor
Icombine for their benefit and prote
: ton, to resist the oppression Of el
le ployers. to secure shorter hours, bett
V.Ipay and necessarily happier home
. have been repeatedly recognised
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