Gold Hill Daily News

WHAT HE SHOWS THEM.

Mr. De Long was in too great a hurry altogether in trying to rush through to Washington with the Japanese Embassy, or he was badly fooled. He could not spend time to bring them here to the field of his own greatest renown and show them the true greatness of our young and flourishing State. He would not show to them the greatest, most extensive and richest silver and gold mines in the known world; our many and most powerful mining works and mills. He would not introduce them to the most energetic, and enterprising community, or show them the public institutions of Carson, Virginia and Gold Hill, so creditable for a State as yet merely in its infancy. Being not even so well posted as to the condition of the Union Pacific Railroad as were we out here in the sage-brush hills, notwithstanding his familiar hob nobbing with the great railroad magnates of Sacramento, the ambitious De Long ignored us all, for "on to Washington" was his one idea. Well, he has not got there with his Japs, yet, and is not likely to until the Spring sun melts away the snow blockade.

What does he show the astute high Japs? A great continental railroad, intended for the "highway of nations," yet which our own nation cannot pass over now because it is Winter. A peculiar people amid our boasted American progression, clinging fast to one of the "past relics of barbarism." A rich agricultural and mineral territory whose admission as a sovereign State into the great American Union is retarded by that same heathen domestic institution, where one man is allowed to have two or three dozen wives, while others have to go without. A people whose peculiar religion is at war with all others in the land, and whose great Prophet and chief governor is under arrest and indicted for violating the laws of his country. Why does he not rush forward with them to the front, and show them the beauties and the hopelessness of the snow blockade, with the trains of starving passengers held in durance both vile and intolerable, to say nothing of the huge accumulations of delayed and despoiled merchandise? Bah! he'd better show them the back track and go by way of Panama, while they have passage money left, and before a public subscription list has to be circulated for their relief.