Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-01-27
NEV ADA
Senator New1ands INDUCES In
Prophesies Concerning Our
Future Veal.
Saws That Nevada Will Be A Model
Common Wealth.

The Goldfeld News publishes the
following interesting letter from Sena-
tor Newlands on the future of Nevada:
We are entering upon new day in
the life of our state-a day that has al
re adv some achievements to its credit,
with the promise of much more i'll the
early future.
ltwas once charged that Nevada's
mineral wealth was exhausted, and
that never again would capital and en-
terprise turn in this direction on that
account. In travelling east last month
| listened to the eloquence OF a gentle
man whom | did not know, but who
talked of Nevada asserting that it is
''another South Africa" and that 1t
would surprise the world with its out
put OF precious metals. OF course,
Nevadans have never doubted that
this is so, but it is good to hear il from
the lips of New Yorker. The new
tune is much sweeter than the old one
with which they used to tell of the
hopeless plight of our great state.
But while we must all rejoice in the
revival of our mining industry, We
may find equal cause for congratulation
in the growth of our commercial towns
and in the expanse of our agriculture
under the national irrigation law. The
number OF homes upon the soil, the
extent of our cultivated lands, and the
amount of our annual product will be
multiplied many times over when the
works now under way and projected
are completed. But these works do not
mark the limit of onr possibilities.
There are other great opportunities be-
sides those ON the Truckee and Carson.
We shall some day see wonderful de-
velopment ON the Walker river and in
the long valley of the Humboldt, and
the view which the traveller now sees
from the transcontnental train will be
transformed.
Our real cause for rejoicing is not in
any single one OF these facts, but in all
OF them together. Genuine and last
ing prosperity, that kind of prosperity
which is distributed among all elements
OF population, comes from symmetrical
development OF the whole variety ol
natural resources. That is what we are
beginning to see IN Nevada and what
We shall see in constantly increasing
measure as time goes on.
But mines, farms an thriving towns
are not the only assets which Nevada
has with which to appeal to the in
terest of the outside world. We are
living in time of wide unrest and, as ii
seems to me, are soon to SEQ what
Lincoln called ~ new birth OF institu-
ton" In my judgment Nevada is
peculiarly suited to become the field for
the most advanced legislation aiming to
increase the power OF the people in the
control OF their affairs. The signiii-
can't feature OF the last presidential
election was the marked independence
OF the voters throughout the land. The
great feature of the elections held last
month was the manner i'll which this
new independence was used to over
throw bosses and machines. The
coming conflict will be between popular
rights and the power which has gone
so largely into the hands of incorpor-
ated wealth, employed not alone in
transportation, but in dealing with all
the necessaries of life.
| would like to see Nevada take its
place i'll the very front of the firing line
and lead the way toward higher ex-
preston of democracy. | think the
state is fortunately situated for such an
small and largely self-employing, 50
that it enjoys a degree of freedom
from various forms of coercion which
do not prevail in states containing
great city populations.
The advantage which the spirit of
political independence has recently
gained over machines and bosses can
only be perpetuated by change in our
methods of making nominations. | be-
lieve in the people making the nomina-
tions themselves without the interven-
ton of delegates, conventions and the
inevitable managers who control the
process. With this reform we would
take a long step toward real indepen-
dence of voters. As | believe in di-
rect nominations, so | believe in direct
legislaton--the power of the people to
initiate laws by their own action, and
the power of the people to veto laws
adopte by their representatives when
ever they care to invoke the referendum.
Several California cities have gone a
step farther and have Incorporated