The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-09-24
SEPTEMBER "a, 1906
PARTIES AND THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

The campaign in the north and old west is going on all right for the Repub-
car party. 1t is going to elect the next congress but by reduced majonties and
in almost all the conventions some strong men have the courage to tell their
party friends that they VIII of course support their party, but that the time for
tariff revision has come. 1t WAS so in Iowa; it vas more intensely pressed n
OHIO; it ws al undpcurrent in Maine-the party chiefs will return to Wash
ngton in December with views modified from those they entertained when the
Then Mr. Bryan is helping the Republican ticket Immensely. There is m
thing gntesque in his standing up ard deeaimrg that the Republicans ar, steal
ing Democratic principles What evidence IN state or nation hae they gwen
tat they have advanc d on step since their march halted at Appomauox1 Mr.
Ryan himself has never been a genuine Democrat o a single issue except the
tariff. 1t vas IS n old time Popuhst that h picked up ms notions ABOUT the
government ownership of public utilities from old man Weaver and the others;
his cry against trusts and the trodden down rights of the common people is on
of the campaign insignia OF tn Demoerate party, winch was prough Out TO 10
csmpaign service before Mr.. Bryan was born. The trouble is his party, despite
Its protesaHons, has never done anything for the people except ito acquire ter
rtoy; and all obtained since the Louisiana purchase vas acquired with he nope
Of extending human slavery. The free school, the homestead law, the opening
o4 roaos Q make a path for the settler into the wilderness and to supply him
with means to find a market Tor MS products; Inc protection nat made II posi-
lie to build up great manufactures that give millions of skilled workers high
wages, have every one teen fought in turn by the Democracy, and whenever they
get control of thc government then n 0 ore hears when the poor do cry No won
der Mr.. Bryan is having a hard time in trying to make a showing why the party
he just TO- affects to belong to should he alive
The elections is going ali right this year, but there will be business for it two
years hence, because tseemst to be a provision of nature lot to permit thu peo-
re of this country to enjoy great prosperity too long. he outs are given a In
nmg just, as it were, TO supply a horrible example.
There are wrongs in the country which should be cured The best
thought Mr. Bryan is urging is the income tax. That and the tx n lands that
are not being cultivated a tax just al heavy as though they were being cutiva-
I'd if properly enforced, would cure nearly all the public wrongs of the repuo.
lie. The rich should pay their honest quota # taxes and when men W land and
M lot cultivate it they should be taxed until they would become tired.
A New York woman with an income of $4,000 per I'M has largely in
ceased her outgo by marrying a newspaper ian
If alcohol is to be made from corn cobs the supply of cobs fr the genuine
napte syrup Of commerce may be largely reduced.
A eannial king of the South Sea Islands want a shipload of American
shool marms Whether for educational or gatronomie purposes is not stat d.
The Kansas baby crop is SO unusually heavy this year that many proud par
snts advocated the adoption of the stork as the state emblem, but Utah saw III
A western petse INT the Chicago RecortIIerad a poem entit'd d; "The Lay
of the Setting Hen" The editor was too old a bird to be caught with chaf, and
returned it to the author with the information that setting hens never lay
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"a bright winged angel descended to Our home Tuesday and 1T with IS a
sweet baby boy" says a Kansas editor An editor who cannot distinguish the
difference between a brghtwnged angel and the old familiar stork should throw
down the pen and grab a pair IF old pdw handes-Ex.