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Show The Dignity of Labor. Nevada has reason to be proud of some of the candidates for office at the election held to-day, for, according to statements made concerning them, they have been, at least in earlier life, numbered among "the honest and hardy sons of toil." One has been a blacksmith, another a shoemaker, a third a miner, another a stage driver, and so on. But would it be believed, these facts are bandied about by newspapers of rival parties as something derogatory to the men ! To fling it a3 disgraceful at a man that his band has been at one time hardened with honest toil, is so unlike wha1 should be heard in a republican country, coun-try, that we stop and wonder if we are Dot reading the Pall Mall Gazelle "a paper published by gentlemen for gentlemen" with its tilts in 'defense of aristocracy. It may be quite right to enunciate such principles where there is a recognized aristocracy of birth and title, and one of wealth; but they are greatly out of place' in a country where the greatest man is he who was made greatest by the Creator of al!, whether he delves the earth, welds the iron, mends the brogan, presides on the bench or commands armies. It is a lowering of the dignity of our common com-mon humanity, to ook up to oue man or down upon another because of his occupation, or the mere accidents of birth or wealth; and the sooner republican repub-lican America frees itself from the trammels of a shoddy aristocracy, ceases to yield worship to wealth, and elevates him alone whose talents, virtues vir-tues and patriotism raise him above the level of his fellows, the sooner it will return to the pure principles on which the structure of republicanism is most surely and most permanently built. |