Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-08-07
DEMOCRACY and HOPE.

John w. Kern, democratic candi-
date for vice president. says the party
will score u signal victory in Novem-
Der. Republicans who give their poll
tics instead of their country the first
place in their loyalty fail to see any
reason for this confidence. They think
Mr.. Kern is talking for effect" when
he says democrats will win. But he
is in earnest, and you shall see he is u
true prophet. Democrats will win be-
cause the democratic platform is u sane
and sound document, u declaration Of
Intentions, plans and principles which
breathes the very spirit of Americanism
and revives the hopes OF many good
citizens who had begun 10 think the
day was over when Freedom was the
only ruler in the United States, and to
believe the tyrant Greed had usurped
her place. He will win because the
republicans platform is an unsound
document of doubtful sanity, devoid
of wisdom, weak in patriotism, strong
in pandering to privilege, and in es.
sence and effect u bull headed, dogmatic
assertion that whatever is, is right
when it is republican and because it is
republican. Incidentally the republic
can platform contains an undeniable
statement CT the amazing Increase of
the national wealth and available
material during the very
years when the people were suffering
most from intellectual famine. This
is worse than physical famine, be-
u the effects of physical famine
are transient if it is reviewed in time
and not permitted to kill: while the
effects of intellectai famine, of the
deprivation of boys and girls of the
education which should train, broad
en-, improve and steady their minds
q be overcome never, never, never!
No matter how wealthy the illiterate
children of the United States may be in
later life, through fortunes chances or
changes, their money will never buy
back for them the years, the playtime,
the school time, the opportunities of
their youth. store their minds with
the knowledge which they have not
been allowed to acquire. or form their
brains to the habits of correct thought
which have been interfered with. We
have heard one of the richest men in
the nation say, with obvious and nnaf-
fected sincerity, that he would give u
great deal more than half his fortune if
he had the mental training of the boys
and girls in the sixth and seventh
grades"
This man knew his life hal been
narrowed, knew he was cribb'd, cabin'd
and confined, Il mental dwarf on a
mountain of material wealth, conscious
OF possession, possession, possession,
possession, and of inability to appreci-
ate, understand or use possession.
Here was Il torment worse than that of
Tantalus. In order to protect innocent
boys and girls who under republican
conditions would have to suffer both
from poverty and ignorance--for not
one in Il million oyercomes the former
condition unless, like the ignorant rich
man who talked with us, he il one of
fortunes favorites," it is the duty of
all Americans to entrust to democratic
patriotism the cause of the country
which, among all its achievements, has
none greater than it's production of the
American ballad, Home, Sweet Home"
1t is the duty of all good Americans to
save the land of Home, Sweet Home, to
protect Home, Sweet Home and keen
the little kiddies" mt their mothers
aprons strings and in the school room
and out Of the clutches Of the beef trust
and the steel trust and the coal trust.
They can save and protect the home
land and help restore three million
toiling children to their nurseries and
schools by forgetting past political pre-.
JUDGES, if indeed they were swayed by
any, and by giving broad. minded.
hearty, American support to William
Jennings Bryan, defender of Home,
Sweet Homeless Angtlcs Herald.