Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-18

them 90, and yard wide; instead Of
shoddy suit, every Two or three years,
~ he Is 20 compelled 70, IL he buyl
1t all.
There are other people interested ID
the restoration of our industries, who
are colic-ing about their industries. II
We cannot get our work in on thi,
restoration power, let US see which Of
as can do tho others the most good,
We can find within the confinos OF
tho Territory what are termed silver
camps. and.'camps" they have proven
themselves to be, in the n OF the
old camp meeting refrain:
1--WE are campsd 10 the wilderness,
Camped 10 the wilderness,
Camped in:ths wilderness,
And have no lodging here"
John Sherman aud Grover have
knocked us out, and u "camps" are
again ''ihe wi!derness"-given over in
many cases to those herds that pasture
on the %"left", while the sheep went To
the right.
Take the camps OF Sierra county. in
New Mexico, situated along the snowy
slopes of the Black Range; Lake Val
ley, when IS, 900, 900 were taken out
before the miner had got fifty feet
under the ground; and Kingston. with
its $40, 000, 900 dug from the grass
roots, just beneath the summit 81 The
range, within Ave years; and Hefmosa,
Chloride, and others further, north,
which were rescued from the Apache,
but . few years ago, who boosted Of
them rs his best hunting grounds, and
from which he boosted that be sen,
many a 'spale face" 10 his long and
s.happy hunting ground, leaving biz
bones to bleach In the summer sun,
and wild winds Of winter. This is o
hint OF Row these ''camps'' were estab-
lished, Brother Wool Grower; thous.
ands of them from Mexico to the
British possessions.
Where are many OF them now
ssDessrted and drear, where the how
Of the torn king, and the bleat Of the
deer, are again heard in the valley
where the rustic OF his tread mingle,
With the cracking brush, and the clat.
tering of the bones Of the Prospector q,
the deer and the goat hefders divide
honors 10 the occupancy Of the coun'
try
Tell Us not that We are writing fsnci.
full tales Of burst booms. The silver
miners story 10 over true, told - II
may be, In somberest hue. His occu'
patton 10 gone, for whose benefit Fol
those who have robbed him by legisla'
ton, that they may gather in the woaltt
Of the producer, manufacturer, etc.
W. grant you protection, We will
work that you get 1t, but cnidado? In
1873, the "Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. wool, the best 10 the
world, brought to its value by protec'
ton, was selling for ffty cent q pound
from growers hands; now 1t is fifteen
cents. Do you suppose that any tariff
can restore former prices and find con-
sumersf The system has been abused
Some OF the infant industries have
grown into giants and have the gov.
eminent by the throat.
Take, for instance, the Carnegie
works, which have recently reduced
ths price OF steelra to SIS, and the
great manager himself boasts that
he does not carr whether he
10 protected or not; he a make
goods cheap m anybody.
How has be accomplished thisP BY
bringing over the pauper labor Of Eu-
rope, which the working man supposed
he was protected against when he sup
ported candidates on q protection
ticket.
While We grant you protection,
Brother Wool-Grower, until you are
able to live again, We ask none. Re-
store either to its place m . money
metal--"16 to L." with gold, and all
those ssbursted booms" that you may
have thought our silver "camps" were
built upon, will spring into life, and
in and around them, the
ranchman, merchant, liveryman,
tradesman-and people OF every trade
and profession, will buy as many Of
ycur wooden suits as We will. You
must get somebody 10 work before you
can sell your goods.
Take Kingston, New Mexico, here
mentioned, when 1900 people
we're prosperous, ten years ago; now
less than 200 are buying a shoddy suit,
now a~nd-thsn. When they mined
it wss money direct from the
ground.
When you clip your wool, you are
continually complaining of the pur-
the commission mau, the rail
road, and Of everyone who handles
your production; you know how it is.
The most intelligent class Of hus-
Fever met, are the sheep
breeders OF the east, and the WOOL
growers, and they are able to think
this out. Protected productions aye
Town, as well al unprotected.
These are but . few
thoughts from a strong pro-
;e~ctionist,. who Is so, because he is
IN American and who knows the ruin
hat has been wrought in the east, by,