The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-08-27
POLITICIANS BUSY
During VACATION
Especial to the Silver state )


much with matters of state and the
results of the fall elections as they are
with the pleasures and pastimes of the
vacation.
The chief executive, while chasing
the nimble ball across the sward and
sand, pauses ever and anon to flick
the beads of moisture from his manly
brow, and his caddy, if he listens, hears
some such statesmanlike remark as
this:
"Wonder if Wilson can't make the
rubber tree grow in the southf That
ought to give us some votes to offset
the row out in Kansas -
Then pausing with uplifted club to
swat the ball:
Perhaps that fisherman up on the
Restigouche could qaalify as a pilot
for the Ship Of State, ana Knox,
Swat! and the ball bounds away
with large party in pursuit. Surely
some vacations are not all fun.
A certain faunal naturalist, hacking
away at tree on his country estate.
pauses to listen to a dissertation from
forester on how to conserve the
woods by ousting his personal enemies
from the swivel chairs they hold down
In Washington. A young man fresh
from the insurance business advises
with gumshoe senator on how to make
the regular ticket look like an insurg-
ent manifesto to the voters of the mid
die west. Leaders of the grand old
party hold secret conferences at sum
mer resorts and discuss-the weather.
and the Gaynor affair. 1t is a season
OF plotting, conniving, placating. The
air is full of mystery. The Republi-
can party is in need of overhauling and
repairs. for hard campaign is on ana
there is dissension and mutiny in the
ranks.
/ 1t seems as if the Democrats found
conditions much TO their liking. With
linternecine warfare and personal am
bitions rending the opposition, they are
saying little and working hard. Now
and then they add fuel to the fires of
factional strife and stand by to snatch
the chestnuts from the embers.
Meanwhile the work of would.b
assassin has focused the attention OF
the nation on man whose record as
mavor of New York has already mark.
ed him as timber available for the
presidency. Should he recover. as il
seems now that he will, Mayor Gaynor
will have become greater factor than
ever in national affairs and whoever
heads the next Republican ticket NAV
find in him a dangerous contender.
Old issues have largely lost their
significance. The parties are casting
about for new principles and plat
forms. The next national camaign
must be fought out on new lines. The
leaven is working and what a few wears
ago was radicalism is destined to be
accounted tomorrow as merely the
common place and inevitable. With
the realignment of principles, will the
old leaders trim their sails to catch
the breeze, or will new leaders arise
as expoEents of the principles the peo-
pie demands
General Unrest.
There is always some "insurgency'
in every party, bnt the existing unrest
designated by that name in the party
of Lincoln and Grant and Mckinley
is more widespread and insistent than
has been noted in a generation. That
insurgency means something diff.
ferent in Ohio from what it means in
Kansas; that the brand of insurgency
in California is unlike that in Maine
does not help the situation. And in
surgency is not merely a manifesto
tion of dissatisfaction by the "outs'
who want to oust the "ins" It il
more or less sign of dissatisfaction
amono the people themselves. There
seems to be something wrong. but the
political doctors are at variance as tc
whether the disorder is functional o,
organic, and in consequence they don =
know just what kind of treatment
should be administered. That the coun'
try is admittedly prosperous does not
save the situation. The only positive
Representation which it seems safe to
indulge in is that there are definite
signs of trouble ahead with indications
that there will be a retirement of old
leaders and rising up of new ones.
Importation of Luxuries
Give me the luxuries of life. - said
Mark Twain. "and care not who gets
the necessaries. -
In that he seems to have hit the kew
note for the American people. Our i'm
portations of Injuries during 1910 ex
eeeded in value similar importations fol
any previous year. The valuation
place upon articles classed as luxurie.
in 1910 by the department of com
meree and labor was 100000. 900
"Luxuries, " according to this authori
ty, include diamonds, jewelry, laces
embroideries, furs, feathers, beads
perfumery, cigars, tobacco, wines
liquors. automobiles. art works decor.
ated china. bisque, musical instruments,
toys, orchids and palms.
In 1900 We imported diamonds valu-
ed at $l4 100000, and in 1910 $f7 ,S00,-
900. The importations of cigars and
tobaeeos in 1910 were $50 per cent
greater than in 1900. Laces and EN-
broideries in 1910 were valued at $36
100000; furs and skins at S26,600,000'
spirits and other fermented liquors
$23, 100000 art works, $2l,l00,000 al
though ten years ago such goods
amounted to Only $4,000 600; feathers
$12, 100000, Notwithstanding the effort,
of the Audubon society. IT may b,
surprising to most people that imported
toys were valued at $4,000 600, an,
THAT chicie, of which chewing gum d