Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-27

spurned more than twenty years ago:
which to-day, corrupted and dishon,
ored and recreant to every principle
which made it glorious, has fallen
Under the degenerate leadership of
Tom Reed, John Sherman, Mat QUAY
and Blocks of five" Dudley, and q lot
OF bosses, money-bags and mounte-
banks too contemplate to mention.
We denounce and condemn the Re.
publican majority in the National
House OF Representatives for the pas.
sage or the infamous Force bill, by
which the majority seeks. masquerad-
ing under the guise Ct Stree ballot
ana talr 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.
terminaole conflict and collision with
statutory effort Of the people of the
various commemorative Of our Union
permanent political reform.
We hold that this species Of Federnl
| interference with the people in the
registration of their sovereign will ia
; despotic and centralizing in it's ten
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 Ivy the trainers
OF our Constitution.
For these crimes the Republican
party OF this State is in part respon-
slole, and wholly responsible for
greater local otfenses.
The Republican party OF this State
/ began it's 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 un.
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 sisterbood of
States. Our hopes have been blasted
ana overthrown. In tho interest of
ofEce-seekers, the Republican party IF
Nevada has created unnecessary
offices, multiplied deputyships, estab-
listed extravaganza 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 the
State OF Nevada; which made it more
profitable to reside and do business in
San Francisco than in Nevada.
VI the hundreds of corporations
owning mines and mining upon the
, great Comstock lode but one is Ne
vada corporation. The rest are nom
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. Ola
thousand million dollars taken out of
the mines, not ten millions remain in
the State. The mines, the greatest
source If 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
ufacturing 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
lngs to settlers, have been contracted
to spectators and cuttle 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 $4,000 in
1864 and which should have been $780,
600 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
EMMY dedicated to the education Of
our children-and substituted for.Ihe
money worthless promise, which it
provides shall never be paid.
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 depopiIlated.