Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-07-06

people OF Nevada have baeu generous
to fault. They have been helping
the Government at large, but they
have not been doing much for them
selves by standing together aud de-
mandlng all their rights under the
constitution, and exercising their
franchises to the best possible advan-
tage. In nearly every State in the
Union, when anything of special i'm
poftance is desired for the welfare of
its people, they all stand together and
demand it, and fight for it and take
nothing else in it's place, and they
generally get it. II we will accept
the motto, I'm Union there is strength"
and both and all political parties in
the State will commence fn time,
and concentrate their whole energy
for one object--"The free and un-
limited coinage of silver" we will find
other States which will be glad to
tnd Nevada Bold on silver. Few i'm
portant fssuesare gained in one cam
paign. The trouble this time has
been that we have commenced 10 time
for the Presidential election four years
hence, but not quite soon enough
for the present campaign. The axi-
ON: Large bodies move slow" will
apply we'll to Nevada. 1t takes q
long time for the people to get down
to the fact that they want silver first,
last and all the time. If they do not
have sufficient time to consider the
matter, they imagine that they want
some popular candidate, whether they
get silver or not, even though his
election would be the greatest Ca
lamity that could happen us.
AS the barometer is influenced by
the weather, 80 will the State of Ne
vada be influenced by the prosperity
of her mining interests. When silver
is on tina raise everything will boom;
but when silver falls down goes
our hopes. When Coast State de-
sires the passage of Aarbor or
River Improvement bill, which would
require the expenditure OF hundreds
of thousands Of dollars, they expect
to return nothing to the Government
for the benefits they receive, although
| the benefits are often absolutely local
We ask the Government for the Re-
monetization of silver which will
benefit rhe whole covntry, but espec-
tally ourselves, for which we would
pay in bullion for all the benefits we
would receive, bat we do not and
have not asked for enough; therefore
We receive nothing. Fellow citizensl
the free coinage Of silver we must
have or we will never prosper as a
State. The principal industry OF the
State will always be mining, unless
Iaieut. Totten's Millennium strikes
us, then we may look for better asri-
cultural facilities, aR it is predicted
that when the millennium comes
every man can live under his own fig
tree, and he will not need much raj
ment; therefore he will not need
much silver, co 1sequently mining in
forests will suffer. But as our eli
mate is not apt to change materially
from what we have been having, the
State will never be classed among the
highly cultivated agricultural States
where every foot of ground will grow
crops; simply because we cannot gel
sufficient water 70 irrigate every acre
in Nevada; but one thing / will say
from observation and published state
ments: That acre for acre under cuI
tivation, the Nevada rsucher car
raise, on an average, more grain anC
hay, at less expense, than in any
other State in the Union. In some
of the Eastern States, fifteen busheIl
Of wheat per acre 10 the average
while in this State thirty-five bush