The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-17
REPLY IS MADE
TO ANONYMOUS
lETTER-WR|TER
Mr.. Albert Burch Gives Some Sound
Advice i'm His COmmuni-
cation
''MUDSILL'' CRITICTZES
GOLDFTELD UNITY CLUB
Way Pointed Out by Mr.. Burch for
Accomplishing the End
Desired


To the Goldfield Daily Tribune:
The following is a letter which
reached me a few days ago, during
my absence from Goldfield, and l
would be glad if you would publish
it together with the comments which
follow:
Mr.. Albert Burch, City.
Dear Sir:-Don't you think
you have taken a very poor way
of starting a Unity Club?
Why not call your employees to-
gether and discuss matters with
them? Surely some one could
be found to express the miners
side of the question better
than Charley Seitz did. Some
people here are pretty tired of
the bunch of grafters that have
controlled everything of this
kind in camp and seem to want
to control this affair.
Respectfully, A Miner, or
MUDSILL.
In replying to this communication,
| plead guilty to being human and
hence liable to error, and it may be
that a better method could have
been found for starting the move
lei which led to the formation of
the Goldfield Unity club; but this
can only be determined when suffi-
cient time has elapsed to enable us
to measure the accomplished results.
The writer of the letter, however
lCses sight of the fact that the Unity
club plan is broad enough to bring
into closer relationship all elements
OF the town, as well as to place the
employees and management of the
Gcldfield Consolidated Mines com
pany on a footing of more intimate
acquaintance. This being true, it
seems to me that the plan adopted
by the committee is better than the
one proposed by "Mudsill." But one
thing is certain, and that is that one
of my own ideas was to aid just such
men as the writer of this anonymous
letter. Suppressed discomfort is bad
for the community and it is my be-
lief thai the Unity club, through its
committees. will tend to bring such
things to the surface and enable all
parties concerned to apply equitable
remedies.
The fear which prompts a man to
write anonymous letters instead of
openly stating his views may be in
born; but is usually the result of
some cause which can be remedied.
Perhaps the man has really been
down-trodden all his life, and per-
haps he only thinks he has; and one
is about as bad as the other. This
is one of the causes that may pro-
duce fear, and the fact that one man
has written such a letter is sufficient
to indicate that there may be others
who are afraid to express themselves
openly. To all such, I wish to say
that ! do not wish any employe at
the GOldfield Consolidated Mines
company to be afraid to tell me what
he thinks; nor do I wish to fear to
express my opinions to them. | do
not care what a mar says to my
face, and am prepared to meet him
half way in either fight or friend
ship; but the man who resorts to
back-biting Injuries himself quite as
much as anyone else.
There is no reason why a man
who is supporting himself and his
family by manual labor should not
hold his head up like a man: respect
others and be respected, in turn,
himself. The motto: $50 live every
day that you can look every d-n
man in the eye and tell him to go to
HI" is not clothed in elegant
language but expresses in a ~forceful
way a good principle for an Amer
lean citizen.
in this connection. though it has
no bearing upon "Mudsill's" letter,
it has been called to my attention,
since my return to GOldfield, that
the provision in the constitution of
the Unity club which limits member
ship to American citizens is likely to
bar many desirable members; and ]
shall use such influence as / have
with the committee to induce them
to amend this clause.
ALBERT BURCH.