Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-11-06
Last Night s Rally
HON. VIM. SMYTHE ON THE lRRI-
CATION BILL.
A Powerful Plea for Sparks, Bartine
and Van Duzer Enthuses the Opera
House Audience.

and Van Duzer Enthuses the Opera
House Audience.
There was large gathering at the
opera house, last evening, to hear the
distinguished speaker and authority
on irrigation, Hon. William E. Smythe.
1t was also expected that Hon. H. F.
Bartinee would address his home
constituents, but that gentleman had
just returned from a long campaigning
trip and was confined to his home
with a threatened attacked of pneu
monia.
The meeting was called to order by
Controller Davis, Chairman Of the
County Central Committee. and the
County candidates were on the stage
as Vice. Presidents.
The meeting was opened by cam
paign song which was composed and
sung by Arthur and Isabelle Heiden-
reich. The music had catchy swing
which brought down the house 1t IS
a matter of regret that these bright
children did not appear earlier in
the campaign.
In Introducing the speaker of the
evening the Chairman called attention
to the fact that when the Irrigation
bill was pending in Congress. it was
called Democratic measure by the
Republican press, and ridicule heaped
on it from all sides. Since the bene-
fetal effects of the law were being
felt in Nevada the Republicans claim
Roosevelt as the sole power that had
caused the enactment of the measure
Mr.. Smthe who knew more of the bill
than an living man, was then intro
duced as the person who would be
able to give the audience the facts as
the existed.
The speaker was greeted with a
hearty welcome and poceeded to his
work of enlightening the audience in
a most mastery manner
Among other things he said:
81 have been asked by some of the
leading Republicans of Nevada why
Democrats insist on dragging irriga-
ton into politics. The answer is three
fold. We furnish the brains for the
legislation, as any fair student of its
votes to pass the bill in the hous :.
where the battle was fought. as the
official record shows beyond dispute,
we alone have declared for great
constructive policy of domestic de-
velopment as the logical alternative to
the waste of empire and the startling
extravaganza of the Roosevelt admin
stration for military and naval eS
penses.
'This is the great issue of the CAM
paign which distinctly divides the
leading parties, and in the settlement
of which the election result will have
the strongest significance. We chal
lenge our opponents to meet us in the
open an defend their military and
imperial policy as something better
than our plan of domestic develop
ment. They cannot defend their pol
icies successfully, nor can they con
vince the people that we are wrong
when we declare that it is better to
invest the nations revenues in build
ing homes in the West that to squan-
der it on the Philippines.
"This year and every year, we arr
spending 800. 900 600 on the Philip
pine islands and getting 100000 II
return-a dead loss of $4,000, 900
maid by our consumers in order t
crafty the military spirit of Theodore
Roosevelt and pay for the mistakes o.
the Republican party in trying to SUI
jugate a people who have as niue
right to independence as we have
What would that s97, 100000 do in q"
veloping the State of Nevada? L
would give enormous prosperity O
{. your people and increase your popu
1ation beyond your widest hopes.
"That is the issue Of the campa1g'
The Tariff is not an issue, becaus+
there cannot possibly be a partisan
revision Of the tariff during the mex
with representatives Of big interest
who are there to see that the tarii
shall enable these interests to charg
the American consumer all the tram
will bear while competing in fol
eicn markets with the pauper labo
of the world The Senate still need
even more revision that the tarif' o'
iii ,ovar revise the Senate unit