Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1901-01-26
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Gilt, IL WOuld oSSlli III a. viz r. ~c~Ne
Legislature will oppose the right
of the people to vote on the ques-
ton of changing the Constitution
so that lottery may be established
in this State. 1t has been asserted
that but few people are anxious
to vote on the question. This we
do not believe to be true, and the
frantic efforts of those opposed to
the measure to prevent the people
from having a chance to vote on
the question bear out our belief.
Ten or twelve years ago the peo-
pie of Lyon County were called
upon to vote on this question, and
the vote recorded gave majority
of nearly one hundred in favor of
the measure, and this, too, in the
face of the fact that money was
used lavishly here by an outside
lottery company to defeat the
measure. The reason why these
people voted as they did was be-
cause they saw in the move the
only feasible plan to secure water
storage for the State. For years
past the water in all our rivers
has been growing less each year,
and the natural consequence has
b zen that no new land could
b. put under cultivation, and some
years but portion of the land
under cultivation would produce
crops From this state of affairs
Ia suits innumerable originated in
regard to the right of one claimant
cr another to so much water COM
ing from a stream. When the
suits we're settled the winner was
bat little better off than the loser,
r, although he might have gain
e til right to so many inches of
alter from the river, if the water
did MT come he was still in as bad
a position as before. AS gener-
al thing our ranChers are not men
o. any considerable means, and
often, hen some of them through
their rights were being infringed
upon, they hesitated about begin
ming suit on account of the ex-
pense entailed. This is the stu
alton in this, as we'll as every other
county in the State, today, and it
is not to be wondered at that these
people would grasp almost any
situation which would enable them
to secure more water and thereby
keep from mortgaging their farms,
and in many cases, eventually
losing them. The opposition to
lottery in this State is nothing but
a political game. These who are
opposing the move, but few of
them have any morals to speak of,
nor do they claim to have. To
the good people who are fighting
the lottery on moral grounds, and
are sincere in their work we offer
nothing but commentator for
their zeal But the ordinary per-
son, who CANDLES at everything
else from dice game to the bunco
game of stocks, and who is op-
posing lottery on moral grounds,
is worthy of little less than con-
tempt. AS before stated, politics
is the thing that is hurting. the
lottery project, and this political
policy is being carried out for the
benefit of single person who
never did thing to benefit the
interests of this State; who never
invested any money in it which
was not secured by him from the
people of this State and which was
mostly obtained by him through
his brace game of Comstock shares.
That such politics are good for a
State no one can make US believe;
rather will we contend that they
are of mere baneful influence than
would be one, or dozen, lotteries
in the State.
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