Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-19
OF bosses, moncy-bags and mounte-
banks too contemplate TO mentIon

publican majority in the National
House OF Representatives for the mas.
sage or tho Infamous Forcc bill. bv
winch The majority seeks. masquerad.
ing under the guise cfa Stree ballot
ana falr COUNT" to perpetuato itself
IN power by .insiducusly destroying
The Liberties Of American citizens.
usurplnE the legitimate functions of
state governments and bringing the
FEDERAL election machinery into in
termlnabie conflict and collision with
Il statutory effort of the people of the
various commemorative of our Unioc
10 institute genuine, practical and
permanent political reform.
We hold that this species of Federal
interference with the people in tho
registration or thoir sovereign will is
Gespotic and centraliz;ng in its ten
oencies, dangerous to the liberty,
peace ana prosperity Of the people,
reVolutionary IN it's nature and pur:
pose, ana direct contravcntion of
tho principles Of FREQ government
as bequcathod to us 10y the trainers
o: our Constitution.
For u ESQ crimes tho Republican
party CT this State is in Fart respon-
sible, and wholly responsible for
greater local oifenses. ,sz
The Republican party Of this State
began its career OF d;shonor and ruin
III 1864, when our wealth and popula-
ton were moro than double what
they are to-day; when our yet un
developed industries gave greater
promise than in any other part of the
earth; WHOM tho State was honoIed
and our people respected wherever
known, and when we had reason to
hope that Nevada would become one
of the grandest. the richest and most
populous or tho great sister, God of !.
States. Our hopes have been blasted
and overtllrown. In tho interest OF
o1hce-seekers, the Republican party af
Nevada has crGated UNNECESSARY
Offices, multiplied depntyships, e5tab-
llshed ext:avaSant fees and unprece-
donted salaries. II has enacied laws
and instituted system Of business
which enriched and populated the
State of California ut the cost OF the
State OF Nev;ida; which made it moro
profitable to reside and do business In
San Francisco than in Nevada.
OF the hundreds OF corporations
owning mines and mining upon the
great Comstoci lode but one is d Ne
wade corporation. The rest are non
resident, not amenable to our Courts,
with their directors, officers and EN-.
ployes filing positions, exercising en-
pigments and drawing salaries which
OF right belong 10 our, people. OF q
thousand million dollars taken out.of
the mines, not ten millions remain In
the State. The mines, tho greatest
source Gf our, wealth, have fallen into
the hands OF corporations and specn-
lators.
Not only the business Of mining and
milling Ores, but the business of man.
ufacturing lumber, square timber and
wood; the business IF supplying water,
fuel and lights; in short, every profit
able industry is monopolizod, dragged
and plundered, until nothing is left to
our people but the wretched pittunce
called the wages OF labor.
The State is literally tho spoil of
monopolies. The public lands, which
should have been sold in small hold
ings to settlers, have been contracted
to spectators and cattle kings in
tracts large enough for counties, and
in place OF our villages being. homes
for tho people, they are camps forthe
COWS. e'-
Our population which was $4,000 in
1864 and which should have been $780,
600 by now, his 6ecreaced TO 4O,GO0,
and our taxable property, which
should be q thousand million dollars,
is less than twenty million.
1t has robbed the school fund sol
EMMY dedicated to The education Of
our children-Pnd substituted for tho
money worthless promise, which it
provides shall never DO paid.
Under its management our indus
tries have been paralyZed and are no
longer profitable; taxes have increased
until in many places property isvslue-
less; immigration has ceased and the
State is being depopulattd.
1t has SO often imported candidates
for Office into tho State, so often ex-
posed the great oflico Of Senator for
sale, go often corrupted tho ballot
box, that we have been stigmatized
rs the "rotten borough and have DO.
| como by-word and reproach and
stencil in tho nostrils Of the English
speaking people.
To correct these wrongs and reform
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