Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-24

sPurned moro than twenty years apo.
which to-day, corrupted and disb0n
ored and recreant to every principle
which made it glorious, has falian
under the degenerate leadership NJ
Tom Reed, John Sherman. Mat 0nax
and Blocks of-five" Dudley, and aIot
OF bosses, money-b bags and mountee
banks too contemplate to mention.
We denounce and condemn the Re-
publican majority in the National
House OF Representatives for the pas
sage OF the infamous Force bill. nv
winch the majority seeks. masauerad-
ing under the guise CT Stree ballot
and fair count" to perpetuate itself
In power by insiduously DESTROYING
the liberties of American citizens
usurping the legitimate functions of
state governments and bringing the
Federal election machinery into in
terminable conflict and collision with
a statutory effort of the people of the
various commonwealths of our Union
to institute genuine, practical ard
permanent political reform.
. We hold that this species of Federal
interference with the people in the
registration of their sovereign will il
despotic and centralizing in it's fen
denotes, dangerous to the liberty,
peace and prosperity of the people,
revolutionary in it's nature and pur-
pose, and direct contravention of
the principles Of free government
as bequeathed to us by the trainers
OF our Constitution.
For ttese crimes the Republican
party of this State is in part respon.
sible, and wholly responsible for
greater local otfenses.
The Republican party of this State
began its career of dishonor and ruin
in 1864, when our wealth and popula.
ton were more than double what
they are to-day; when our yet un4
developed Industries gave greater
promise than in any other part of the
earth; when the State was honored
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 of the great ssterkood cf
States' Our hopes have been blasted
and overthrown. In the interest of
office seekers, the Republican party nf
Nevada has created unnecessary
offices, multiplied deputyships, estab-
llshed extravagant fees and unprece
dented salaries. It has enacted laws
and instituted system Of business
which enriched and populated the
State of California at the cost of tho
State of Nevada; which made it more
profitable to reside and do business in
San Francisco than in Nevada.
OF the hundreds of corporations
owning mines and mining upon the
great Comstock lode but one is a Ne
wade corporation. The rest are non
resident, not amenable to our Courts,
with their directors, officers and en-
ployes filling positions, exercising en-
Payments and drawing salaries which
OF right belong 10 our people. OF
Thousand million dollars taken out of
The mines, not ton millions remain in
the State. The. mines, the greatest
source of our wealth, have fallen into
the hands OF corporations and specu-
lators.
Not only the business Of mining and
milling ores, but the business of man
ufacturlng lumber, square timber and
wood; the business Of supplying water,
fuel and lights; in short, every profit
able industry is monopolized, dragged
and plundered, until nothing is left to
our people but the wretched pittance
called the wages of labor.
The State is literally the 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 the people, they are camps for the
COWS.
Our population which was 10000 in
1864 and which should have been 5OO,-
0OO by now, has decreased to 10000,
and our taxable property, which
should be thousand million dollars,
is less than twenty million.
1t has robbed the school fund-sol-
emnly dedicated to the education of
our children-end substituted for the
money worthless promise, which it
provides shall never be paii.
Under It's management our indus
tries have been paralyzed and are no
longer profitable; taxes have Increased
until In many places property is value-
less; immigration has ceased and the
State is being depopulated,