The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-01-25
NEVADA AND HER TROUBLES
Weekly

Of III trouble in Nevada the Buffalo IN. W Express says; 49,.
eve are paving a heavy fine for the mistake of having admitted 70 .e
a state which has neither the capacity nr the desire to govern n~n,
but permits itself to be dominated by rival armed camps OF a00ro ni0 "N
How much has Nevada cost the Buffalo Express or the whole United stafes'
What does the Buffalo journal know about Nevada anyway 4.
The city of Buffalo is worth quite 10, probably . per cent, more nan ~
would W. beef today, except for the gold and silver which Nevada hs poured
into the circulating medium of the country. 10y much more is Ne.a y. W." 80
because of the Buffalo Express' And what is there so terrible ABOUT tine p" ~
80 raor;ro W. or three companies of soldiers to Nevada n the cal OF tn
governor of that stated 1t is only some fourteen years SINCE te 'en p." @s
of the United States, against the protests Of the governor OF nnOl' 90. syn,
of soldiers to that state to restore order and protect government prop
ety. Did the Express bewal the cost which Illinois lac 0@n " "e 'H"'
states' ~. uornmsn
when it sent back from the battle line needed veterans to put 90" a h' a'
stop the mercfes cruelties raging in New York CITY, tnougn w'nn nv n mS
of the bloody vortex of the riot and the murders quite 100000 bic bodied men
were hiding in their homes and the governor of tn stat ws Squeezing I'M "
pig that was being sheared.
Nevada overs IN area as great a New York, Pennsylvania, New jersey
Delaware and Maryland combined. 1t is sparsey settled. 1t is peopieu ons :"
its narrow valleys and mining camps
But it is of more value t. the whole United States than any agricultural
state of the east, for while what the eastern agricultural states OF ,e e~'
produce, penshes in a year, what Nevada produces enters int the wealth. me
world a ne product which remains imperishable wealth Tor vel. Henee me
and its people are entitled to a little consideration fr through 'nen worA
they have advanced the wealth of the EAST more Ia IL was oVane u"Hs
all the sixty years that it raised wheat and cabbages and cotton N corn IN
tobacco before 1s49. ~,
Another wise eastern paper says: ''The trouble at Godfeld is a deadlock
besweent he miners and operators ver wages and the union. Tie operators have
reduced the wages from S. a day to "a and refuse to employ an miner until ne
has renowned his allegiance to the Western Federation of liners.
That is but a himsy statement of the case. The Western Federation o.
Miners is composed in great part of good men, put nder ITS ieaders J" mas p@n
during the past eight years a terror to three states n mas ehiorceu .s uo
erees bv incendiarism and dynamite. In Godfeld, Joined by the organization
known as the Industrial Workers of the World y which was originated by "a
Francisco anarchists, the town has been o the verge Of anarchy fol a fuh year.
and property owners have had but a secondary control of their W property.
At last it became a question whether to entirely close down their mines o.
to extncate themselves from the rule of the Federation 1t was nt a ngn.
AGAINST unions. for the men they employ are union laborers 1t va a fight
against this Federation and the sinister band known as the 81 ". VS. There
vas imminent danger o a clash and of wholesale murders an IL vas 'nn 'a
the governor of the state who all his life has been on the frontiera M knows
how fierce are the passions of frontier men when aroused, called, In me interest,"
of order and peace for help
Strangely enough, it a the first threatened violence that for eight years
past the president has lot seemed anxious to butt into. But Nevada hs few
votes and all at oncet the president found himself SO hedged rou D. cons.tu
tional restrictions that all he could do was to scold a governor who all the days
of his life since manhood, has been quite as brave and true a mn as eve hailed
from Manhattan Island. We hope the legislature Will give him tn needed force
and spare further strain upon the president and the eastern newspapers