The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1891-03-14
CHICAGO ON IT'S EAR.

The annexed from the Chicago
Tribune are the words of very COM
mon blatherskite, showing that it
does not always follow because a man
is writer for metropolitan Journal
that he is also a gentleman or u man
of more than ordinary caliber. 1t
was called forth by a report tele-
graphed East that resolution had
been introduced in the Nevada Legis-
lature against an exhibit at the
Worlds Fair The Chicago Board of
Trade had shown its unfriendlincss to
Nevada by petitioning Congress
against free coinage, hence the resolu-
ton:
Such a threat from such a puis-
SAINT State, with a population of 49,
900, about equal to that of an average
Chicago ward, may well make this
city tremble. Doubtless the World s
Fair directory will hold a special
meeting to devise ways and means to
mitigate the wrath of Nevada. The
members of the Board of Trade who
signed that petition will withdraw it
and hasten to send deputation te
Carson City to apologize for the
thoughtless act. An Exposition where
Nevada was unrepresented would
necessarily be a failure-though not
as much so as if Decatur or Cairo
were absent, for either of those small
towns could do more to make a
Worlds Fair an attractive success
than the brokendown, beggarly State
of Nevada, which has nothing to
show except played-out mines below
ground and sage brush above ground.
1t is the summit of impudence for
this handful of Nevadans, who would
starve outright if they did not have
a Senatorship to dispose of every few
years, to say to the members of the
Board of Trade, who could buy out
the whole State and not miss the
money, that they shall not exercise
the right of petition unless they do SO
in a manner which pleases Nevada.
Perhaps next one or two villages in
the Illinois Valley. under the leader
ship of some malcontents, will be
threatening not to take part in the
Fair unless the Drainage act is
amended to suit them.
The members of the Board of Trade
will go right ahead sending to Con-
gress whatever petitions they please,
no more disturbed by the resolutions
of the Nevada Legislature than the
moon is by the braying of jackass.
Certainly they will not modify their
views on the subject of stumptail sill
yer, for they know that this so-called
" free coinage" would injure the en-
tire United States, including that
small Improbable section abandoned
to jack rabbits and strapped miners,
called Nevada.
The few remaining inhabitants Of
that deserted State think that they
would be benefited by stumptail sill
yer. That it would harm the remain
ing 63,000,00O people of the United
States does not worry them in the
least. They are ready to smash them
all if their personal interests are
helped. But the deluded fools. with
long ears and short wits, do not see
that it would be impossible for them
to prosper while the rest OF the coun-
try was suffering.
To think that this little handful of
fools, barely dragging out an exist
ence on the inhospitsble soil of Me-
vada, or burrowing into it in the vain
hope of another bonanza, should have
as many Senators as New York or
Illinois, and should have a whole
Representative for its handful of yot-
ers, while it ought not TO have more
than a quarter of onel And to think
that they should set in to lecture the
City of Chicago and to make threats
as to what they will do about the
Fairl II is much as if CULVER were
to try to browbeat the Brobdingnag-