White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-28
FNTHIISNST|C MASS MEETING
HFIl|N ELY BY JUDGE MASSEY

prerogative were given by the build
ers of the constitution, and Dlcker-
son cannot shirk or escape the re-
sponsibility of his duty by placing n
burden on the shoulder or shoulders
of his official associates.
What would you think and have
you ever been told or have you ever
read from the Democratic press; or
did the acting governor undertake to
tell you that they carried over into
the treasury of this state cash taken
from the pockets of your people last
year equal to amount nearly the
! equivalent of the entire expenditures
of the year before? Have they ever
told you that by taxation and other
processes ofraising revenue under the
laws of tie state of Nevada they have
not only collected from you people
sufficient funds to pay the expenses
of this government carried on by an
, ~extravagant system of expenditure
amounting almost to criminal care
lessness-not only collected the
amount that was needed, but they
have carried into the treasury o. the
state an amount nearly equal to the
amount of the expenditures, known
to have been used in the year pre-
ceding.
Is not such a procedure an invita-
ton to extravaganza? What do they
say? Why money is in the treasury
1T is cash, 1t is there, let us spend
It. We have the cash Oh hand ard
the people have paid it. There never
has been an accounting so far as
the people are concerned on this
matter and 1t has been an invitation
to the most e~xtravagant appropria-
lions.
What are the figures? / have lived
In this state In its most palmy days
when this state and its future was
as pleasant to the eye as a blush on Ii
maiden's face is to the eye of a man.
I have lived here, too, when this
state seemed to be about to become
nothing more than a sheep-pen; when
its prospects, as in 1892 and 1898,
beginning as far back as 1890, when
its mines were closing down and it's
miners were out of employment, and
l was drafted in Tuscarora, and
turned out in April of 1890, when 1t
was a serious matter of discussion in
the congress of the nation as TO
whether this state should have any
longer a right to statehood. But
those days went by and brighter
hours have come with the discovery
of gold and the discovery of copper
from our sofia metal that will turn
out it's yellow usefulness for a en-
fury to enrich you and the people
who come after you.
After those good days came, and
in the last four years they have in
creased the expenditures of your gov
eminent more than a hundred per
cent. What have you got for it?
When you sent Senator Comins TO
represent you in the senate of this
state years ago, $4,000 was a large
fund to expend for that session.
When you complained of some of the
expenditures you did rightly and yet
two years ago there was appropriate
ed $4,000 for the same purpose and
they have added attaches after at
taches who did not know how to do
the work they were called on to do,
if they had any. And you paid
the bills. They have created Offices
and added expenses until they
doubled and more than doubled their
expenditures and the record is easy
to read. One of the Democratic can
didates you have before you today
has a political record and it is a part
of his inheritance and you have a
right to know his record. One of
your Democratic candidates for gov
ernor today made a junketing trip in
order to aid in the construction of a
new penitentiary with the approval
of the acting Governor along with the
attorney general. They went all over
the United States to do what? Learn
how to build a states prison. And
that trip cost the state thousands of
dollars to enable those men to travel
in parlor cars and live In first class
hotels and all to build a peniten-
tiary which should be the business
of a state architect. Two hundred
thousand dollars was appropriated as
a beginning and the governor says
almost all has been spent except
some $4,000, and they have not yet
dug a hole In the ground upon which
they expect to build a prison, Have
you not men In this state qualified as
state engineer and constructionists
to build a penitentiary without any
such expenditure?
Now listen to the figures of 1905.
The state that year paid out s723,-
600, which Is over $4,000 more
than was expended three years be-
fore. 1t received that year $685.
900, from all sources so that the
expenditures were greater than the
receipts. But no deficit was left be-
cause after paying the expenses of
1904 they carried over $35O,00O, or
more than half the expenses of The
government hat year. And you peo-
pie paid the bill. Now why should
there be carried into a surplus furd
of the peoples money practically
more than half the amount equal to
the one-half of the expenditures OF
the year? That year with the money
they carried over and the money col