Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1897-06-06
Close to bcr heart on that sad dav

| And afterwards lOuhz u was truel n.-
Fighting BoldicrsE still urged the child,
"Fishting now or are they done -
Battling for Goa and right. my love.
AS In th. brave days OF sixty-one."
IT'S thus We view you. army grand
| Not yet your every conflict done,
| Proud sIviors OF your native land.
Not vet your every victory won,
but battling for God and right. my boys,
As In the brave days OF aixty-one.
The plan OF self government ID a
dangerous one. There are foes
without and foes within. Every step
is an experiment. There are no pro-
cedents. Trust not the reins Of pow
er into unsafe h Inds. There are
demago CUES md scoundrels am-
binous OF every place. No commun.
ity, not even our own, is free from
their machinations. They curse NIL
politics national, state and municipal.
They increase the burdens OF taxa
ton. widen differences. foster con-
tentions, put regulations in discs
TEEN. lower the tone Of the commun-
ity they cur0e by remaining in, and
only fatten upon spoils. They whis-
per into the ear OF discomfort and
urge to consideration OF dangerous
means. There is a spirit OF dissatlsiac-
ton. OF restless discomfort abroad In
this land and these blatant dema-
gogues are flaming the flame. There
are storms gathering i'll our skies, the
times are anxious from many u stand.
point, We are upon the eve OF danger
ous days. This nation will again
need such heroes rs the martyred
Lincoln, Grant the lnvincible captain,
the black prince John A Logan. Gar
field the humane statesman, Morton
the wonderful leader pf opinion, and
armies grander than uforetime went
atield. armed with the stainless ballot,
directed by exalted purposes.
| am familiar only with the gener-
al purposes OF your auxiliary and cub
ordinate organizations, but ! can see
that like the grander army, the real
veterans, you do not try to get along
without womgn's aid and that hero,
as elsewhere you need her pure mln
is,rations. Our American poet SAYS
AS UNTO the bow the cod is.
So unto the man Is woman,
Thorgh LnG bends him Sue obeys hir,
Though she d avs him. yet shc follows:
Uselcss each without t"e otho."
] | can wish nothing better than
that the Sons Of Veterans may, like
their illustrious sires, ever provo yer.
table knights and defenders OF faith
and that every daughter OF veteran
may DO the mother OF hero.
The cruelcst, the most wide reach
ing and gigantic conspiracy is press-
ing now upon the poor. 1t is a new
! form OF the old relation master and
slave. 4 thousand hands must toll
that n pampered hand may squlnder.
1t presents itself under q seductive
guiso and ciassities as favored the
few again It the many, and gives pat.
ronage OF aristucracy to those guilt
ble followers whose values bcye been
hslved and quartered, md who exc
out gentecl existence ON constantly
diminishing reveGuc. 1t cricum-
scribes life with criminal repression.
crushcs out the JOY OF hearts, robs
the arm of its product, and squeezes
from the brain it's capacity for eI-
pansion. 1t ia n worse slavery tlan
that bondage which owned the man
and could market him, though this
new thraldom owus only tho carac.
ity or the man. IL he dies under the
yoke lhere is no loss, for in this
ownership OF man's capacity the un-
employed are rot less slaves than the
employed, and Ms one drops by the
wayside nm eager other Is driven to
his place. There is no reRson for
special cnre o. any, for enough will
survive to do the work 1t costs Ices
to dispose Of thom dead than to pro.
serve then living. Under such con.
tinuous and constantly increasing
tyranny il il idle to hopo that all CT.
forts ut remodiatien will DO peaceful,
for The timo will come when despera.
ton will have changed tho man 10 the
animal.
a free people has but one hope.
and that is in opportunity for each TO
labor along tho line Of his choice, to
do the thing for which he has apti.
tude.
lean eco that great changes aro
bound TO occur, There will DO new
order, now institutions. Things do.
cried will DO then in esteem md
things now esteemed will be docuod.
Long established institutions will he
abolished, Not TO protect II man, not
to shield woman or not to aid Il
child will bring contempt and con.
demnatiou, 1lioro will DO restric.
tiops upon greed, mammon will have