Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-22


and led to victory, and which thew
and each Of them abandoned and
spurned more than twenty wears aro:
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 alot
or bosses, money bags and mounte-
banks toe 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. masuuerad
ing under the guise CT Stree ballot
and fair count, to perpetuate iteelf
In power by insiduously destroying
the liberties of American citizens.
nsurplng the legitimate functions of
State governments and bringing the
Federal election machinery into in
termlnable conflict and collision with
statutory effort Of the people Of the
various commonwealth of our Union
to institute genuine, practical and
permanent political reform.
We hold that this species of Federal
interference with the people in the
registration of their sovereign will is
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 Repu blican
party Of this State is in part respon-
sible, and wholly responsible for
greater local offenses.
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 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 sisterhood Of
States. Our hopes have been blasted
| and oyerthrown. In the interest of
othce-seekers, the Republican party nf
| Nevada has created unnecessary
Offices, multiplied deputyships, estab-,
| hshed extravagant fees and upprece-
denied 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.
| OF the hundreds of corporations
owning mines and mining upon the
great Comstock lode but one is Ne
vada corporation. The rest are non
resident, not amenable to our Courts,
with their directors, officers and en-
ployes filling positions, exercising en-
pigments and drawing salaries which
of right belong to our people. OF
Thousand million dollars taken out Of
the mines, not ten 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
ufacturing lumber, square timber and
wood; the business Of supplying water,
fuel and lights; in short, every profit
able industry is monopolized, dragged
| anu pluuuoreu, unGll DOGnlD8 ID leIC 10
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 $4,000 in
1864 and which should have been 5O0,-
600 by now, has decreased to 10000,
and our taxable property, which
should be a thousand million dollars,
is less than twenty million.
1t has robbed the school funds SOL
emDly dedicated to the education Of
our children--and substituted for the
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 n,'operty liz yalile-