Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposit...e extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. Is not our native soil auriferous? Does not a stream from the golden mountains flow through our native valley? and has not this for more than geologic ages been bringing down the shining particles and forming the nuggets for us? Yet, strange to tell, if a digger steal away, prospecting for this true gold, into the unexplored solitudes around us, there is no danger that any will dog his steps, and endeavor to supplant him. He may claim and undermine the whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivated portions, his whole life long in peace, for no one will ever dispute his claim. They will not mind his cradle or his toms. He is not confined to a claim twelve feet square,... but may mine anywhere, and wash the whole wide world in his tom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the labor interests, an...d the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such was life in the Golden Gate: Gold dusted all we drank and ate,... And I was one of the children told, "We all must eat our peck of gold."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We mustn't touch them yet, but see and see! And what was green would by and by be gold.... Their name was called the Gold Hesperidee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hapless Nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first and then a claw,... With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise? What Cat's averse to fish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »