The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-09-02
THE BANK RING BROKEN-THE
LESSON sOF THE FAILURE.


mia ress,Sne business, its man.
ayers will have to keep within
the bounds of legitimate banking, or
their new eff ort will be signal failure.
1t has heretofore, in great measure,
sought to control all the important bus
mess of the country; and especialsviin
the western portions of this State. In
Virginia City it commanded obedience
to its behests, and large majority of
the citizens there were reduced to abso-
lutte subsection not to be bankman
was considered on objectionable
offense. If boot black with has kit
on his back, should seek to shine the
gentemen's boots on the street, and
was known to have some manly indie
pendence, and refused to sneeze when
the officials of the bank ring took snuff,
be was spotted at once, and circum-
vented and driven from town from
necessity. For the general prosperity
of the people and business men in
Storey county, change of bankers,
and reform in the control of the
mines and mills would be Godsend.
Should such changes occur, which is
more than probable, at an early day, the
vast herd of loafers, bummers, shout
der-strikers and petty thieves who ha oe
heretofore figured so conspicuously in
elections under bank pay. it is to be
hoped will lose their detestable occu-
patton, and be driven from the COM
munity. 1t is said that the Flood &
O'Brien' house is of Democratic pro-
clivities, but for the sake of common
decency and good government, and
the respect due our fue institutions,
we hope they will not engage ia poll
tics further than it is the duty Of any
citizen to fully discuss questions of
public concern, and openly and frankly
press his opinions, and use his indi-
vidual efforts for the common veal.
Popular elections in Storey county
have become popular farces by
word and reproach. The political
filth, slime and stencil, which for years
have eliminated from the cornor of C
and Taylor streets, have innoeulated the
body polite along the line of the Com
stock with mortal disease, and it has
spread to remote parts of the State,
outside communities look upon Nevada
as being bankrupt in morals - the
paradise of political hoodlums aud
shysters, and its citizens as a pecul-
lar species of the nineteenth century,
fit only to be bought and sold at the po-
litical shambles of California nabobs.
This must be corrected. The strong
grip Of the Bank of California, which
has heretofore been throttling the peo-
pie, has been relaxed by tbs force of
circunSlduCeS, DuL lOr LnlS lDIlueDce
there never has been an election in
this State but would have gone Demo-
cratic, hence the Democratic party does
not need the aid of banks to secure
success. In the death or crippled cons
dition of the Bank of California, the
Republican party has lost its vitality in
this State, its vertebral colum has been
severed, and for years to come nothing
will be seen of it except the feeble
wiggliDg of its candal appendage. The
people should then see to it that the
Bank of Nevada" shall not interfere
with the politics of this State, and
upon the slightest indication in that
direction, the people should unite
irrespective of party, and effectually
crush its political aspirations.