The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-05-11
STEWART INTERVIEWED.
what III . Says on the silver Cues
ton, Water storage, Etc.


cial reporter of the Silver State was
on hand, boarded the train and
travelled down the road for an inter-
view. He found the Senator in the
best of spirits and looking the per-
feet picture of health and physical
manhood. Being invited to the Sem
ator's section of the sleeper the report
er, after being seated, timidly opened
the ball by SAYING:
"Well, Senator, how do you like the
new Administrations
Senator-"Very well. indeed. Gen
eral Harrison is a very cautious man,
as we'll rs very conscientious one.
lie will not yield the decapitation
axe as vigorously rs some of our
party desires, bu: he will get there
after awhile. The truth is the Ad-
ministration, 50 far, has been so be-
sieged by ofiiee-seekers that it has
scarcely had an opportunity to deliber-
ate in Cabinet council upon its ma
tional policies
Reporters Senator. do you find the
President iayorably disposed to the
silver interestf
Senator. Yes, you i'll find that
he will ihterpose no obstacle in our
way, the sentiment East is changing
favorably towards us. The best eyi-
dence of this is the abuse | received
from the gold-bng press. The New
York Times devotes considerable
space To the hereses OF that man
Stewart ol Nevada, aud warns the
gold bugs that there is great danger
of the rcmonetizatiun of the debased
metal When | went 10 Washington
two years ago WAS told by some Of
my friends thai might as well drop
the silver question ~ nothing could
done. tod them that Wall street
would mol find NE 'in innocuous descu-
tude' on the subject anyway; that |
could make myself offensive to them
II not cflectual in accomplishing all
the silver interest demanded. Now
am satisfied that inside OF twelve
months our minis viii be coming the
maximum sf four million per month
of silver coiu-lrom bullion produced
by American mines. One hundred
aud seventy-three millions of the Ma
tonal banks circulation have been re-
tired since 1888. ami seventy millions
mara viii bc retired in 800. In few
wears ali of cur National banks will
necessarily be closed unless we have
additional legislation. When that
time comes the silver men viii dictate
the new legislation, aud We Riil place
the silver IN the position II occupied
before decentralization. This viii be
done before President Harrison's term
expires OF this our people can rest
assured
Reporter-"from the outlook now,
unless you get silver restored, we will
have To abandon Nevada. We never
had such drought since the settlement
of the country
Senator" No, and probably YOU
will not have another such dry season
in twenty-five years. This State has
been the most favored State in the
have been the most regular. This
year is the first OF what We might call
drought. One year in twenty-pine
ought not to he complained of. In the
Eastern States the good year for far
mers is the exception, the bad year the
rule. They either have devastating
floods or consuming droughts, and if
by chance they escape these some
other calamity follows, such as grass
hoppers, crickets, or winters OF such
severity and duration as to paralvze
not only the agricultural, but all other
industries. There is no other State in
the Union where the great mass of the
people as SO prosperous AS in Nevada.
The weather in this State is more
equally distributed than in any other
State. Ii is true we have no very
wealthy property owners, but we have
no very poor people. We may truly
say that all the people of Nevada are
in comparatively comfortable circum-
stances. AS Il rule--and there are but
few exceptions to the rule what our
farmers and stockmen need is u good
system of storage for water. We can
safely say that rain and snow fall
nineteen years out of twenty, if stored,
will furnish ample water to cultivate
all the tillable land in the State.
When this is done we will sustain
thriving population of 200, 900 souls,