Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-30
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Labor Is the Foundation of the
Country, In a Sense.

I'll L 4 AOQ DAhR ~ 1NsN - - ~ 1
torial Of Editor Norcross of the Reno
Evening Gazette, get it Of date April
23d and read it. We quote as much
as space will permit:
"After thirty years of stagnation
the state of Nevada is awakening.
Mining discoveries of wonderful rich
ness, the irrigation enterprise, and
the effects of the general prosperity
of the lest Of the country are each in
part responsible. The people of the
state now possess the key which will
unlock a future Of great promise if
they use wisely their opportunities.
Gas in every new country we need
capital here. Capital a always be
found to invest in mines if they are
rich enough, no matter what the
local disadvantages. Capital is anx-
ious for opportunities of investment
in any field of enterprise provided
that the enterprise gives evidence OF
reasonable profits for a sufficiently
long period and provided that the
sentiment of the people is not antag-
onistie to capital. No mar with
money ~to'invest in large enterprises
is going to invest it in a community
where the press is continually up
holding capital as an oppressor and
menace to the public welfare, and
where on every street corner social
istic doctrines are received with APP
plause that organized society is all
wrong and should be u%pturned.
There is such a thing as a good whole
some public view to take on civic
questions, which is grounded in jus
tice and patriotism and good common
sense; which is neither radical nor
, weakly oblivious of public wrongs,
and this point of view the people OF
Nevada should cultivate more thar
! they have in the past. 1t is this con.
servatism which is the latent source
: of power of the nation, which has
. fought all the country's great battles
and which will continue to fgh-
battles in behalf of the public welfare
n hereafter.
''There is no good to come from
4 generating corporations and trust
and their acts as all essentially bal
% and oppressive, and labor unions an,
union men and their acts as all essen
~ TALLY good and for the public welfare
A. We know that on the contrary Their
is a tremendous preponderance {
good and a generous %sprinkling {
evil in both. That much which car
Of itat has done has been Oppressive
"A but on the other hand the tremeI
dous preponderance of it has contr
es buted to the public welfare. Ths
labor is the foundation of the countr,
n in a sense, just as the individual SC
der is the basis of the army, but a
army never won a battle withol
lv captains to direct it, and the grei
IN general is as needfuI to the army
.rs the army is to the general.
ba SIN the SANE breath that son
to spell binders and editorial writer's
nd this state and elsewhere, unhappil
also, speak of the expressions
nd labor-which in point of fact are i
ich finitely more in the imagination tn;
ID in reality, judged by all previo
,d. world-standards-they propose as
IA. remedy to run amuck among the CO
porations and trusts of capital
order to bring about a millennium
We can predict with abundant re
son that labor by that course wou
rth be ruined. Nothing that could
o.. proposed by the most bitter ener
of labor would prove so disastrous
ian that which some of it's alleged frien
propose. Who would employ labC
/. direct its strength, and pay wag
if capital were overthrow they ha
T. NOT stated -