Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-06-04

lIy tney curoS by remaining III, and
only fatten upon spo!ls.. They whis-
per into the ear of discomfort and
urge to considerasi Ion of dangerous
means. There is spirit of dissatlsfac-
ton. OF restless discomfort abroad III
this l,:nd and these blatant dema--
gogues are tanning the flame. There
are storms gathering in our skies, the
times are anxious from many stand
point, we are upon the eve OF danger
GUS days. This nation will again
need such heroes as the martyred
Lincoln, Grant the invincible captain,
the LACK prince John a Logan. Gar
field the humane statesman, Morton
the wonderful leader of opinion, and
armies grander than aforetime went
atield, armed with the stainless ballot,
directed by exalted purposes.
1 am familiar only with the gener-
al purposes of your auxiliary and sub
ordinate organizations, but can see
that like the grander aru,y, the real
veterans, you do not try to get along
without woman's aid and that here,
as elsewhere you need her pure mln-
is.rations. Our American poet says:
AS unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows;
Useless each without the other!"
l can wish nothing better than
that the Sons of Veterans may, like
their illustrious sires, ever prove YER;
table knights and defenders OF faith
and that every daughter of veteran
may be the mother of hero.
The cruelest, the most wide reach
ing and gigantic conspiracy is press
ing now upon the poor, 1t is a uew
form of the old relation master and
slave. A thousand hands must toll
that pampered hand may squander.
1t presents itself under a seductive
guise and classifes as Favored" the
few against the many, and gives pat
ronage OF aristocracy to those gull
BILE followers whose values have been
halved and quartered, and who eke
out genteel existence on a constantly
diminishing reveGue. 1t cricum-
scribes life with criminal repression,
crushes out the Joy of hearts, robs
the arm Of its product, and squeezes
from the brain its capacity for ex-
pansion. 1t is worse slavery than
that bondage which owned the man
and could market him, though this
new thraldom owus only the capac-
ity or the man. If he dies under the
yoke there is no loss, for in this
ownership of mans capacity the un-
employed are lot less slaves than the
employed, and as one drops by the
waysde an eager other is driven to
his place. There is no reason for
special care Of any, for enough viii
survive to do the work 1t costs less
to dispose of them dead than to pre-
serve them living. Under such con-
tinuous and constantly increasing
tyranny it is idle to hope that all ef-
forts ut remediation will be peaceful,
for the time will come wher dcspera-
ton will have changed the man to the
animal.
A free people has but one hope,
and that is in opportunity for each to
labor along the line of his thoice, to
do the thing for which he has apti-
! tude. .
can seo that great changes are
bound to. occur, There will be a new
order, new institutions. Things, de-
cried will be thon in esteem aud
things now esteemed will be decrled.
Long established institutions will be
abolished, Not to protect man, not
to shield q woman or not to aid q
child will bring contempt and con-
! demnation, There will be restric-
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