White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-23
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Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle.
men.
II affords me much pleasure to
meet the good people OF McGill ere
this evening. AS my friend, Mr..
eddie. has stated, we have had one
continuous round OF l.easure and
sleepless night for the past three
weeks. therefore we are somewhat
fatigued, but we are still in the fight.
| can say that ! agree with what
your chairman has said.
am that kind of a Republican thai
he has referred to. ] hav no apollo
gies TO make to anyone. | care not
whom he may be, for any of my acts
since | have represented the people of
the state of Nevada inn the halls of
congress.
The Senator here ~eulogized Mr..
eddie and too up the matter of his
own (Senator Nixon's1 residence in
the state of Nevada, stating that he
had been a continuous resident for
over % years. and asserting his un-
dying loyalty TO the state, especially
in view of the fact that everything he
had he had made in Nevada.
We have had one Democratic ad-
ministration since 1860, the ear in
which | was born, ] am speaking now
on national lines-and that was from
1892 until 1896, and / want every
man in the audience q am not talk
in politics now, and | don't intend to
tonight. / am a business man, and,
above all, a Neyadan. My interests
are yours and your interests are
mine, and ] want TO say this-I
want every laboring man, every wage
Garner, every business man, every
professional man, to stop and think
for a moment,-would he exchange
the conditions of the present day. al
though they may not be just what we
want them to be,-would he exchange
those conditions for the conditions
that existed from 1892 to 1896 under
Democratic administration, and un-
der, we might say, the Wilson bill,
because we had that measure during
that period? My friends ! was active
in business al that time. ] was in the
banking business In Humboldt coun-
ty, and ! still have that little institu-
ton, which | had then had for about
six years; it vas known as the First
National Bank of Winnemueca. Now,
! want to say this-I remember that
time when wool sold at BE a pound
and sheep sold at $1.25 a head and
when no no mar could get work at
any price. / have seen train load
after train load of working men pass
through; what was known as the
Coxey and Kelley army. You re-
member those conditions when they
went on to Washington TO ask for
relief at the hands of this great gov
ernment-you all remember those
things and conditions and times.
Now, my friends, what has been ear
be again, and don't forget that.
Senator Nixon here told of his
having taken a vacation last summer
on account of his health and spend
ing several months In Europe, and
drew a very vivid comparison of the
laboring conditions existing in Eng
land with those in the United States.
showing the wonderful advantages
enjoyed by the laboring classes here.
Referring TO the tarin question Sen
ator Nixon said
Some people have attacked me
when in Congress for having sup
ported the protective policies of the
Republican party. That's what !
went there for. Now, ] want to ask
you one or two plain questions. !
know hat around this community
you have some lead mines. Would
you have wanted me to put lead on
the free list. or TO have supported a
reduction i'm the lead tariff? / think
not, ! don't believe there is a man in
this audience. | don't care whether
he Is a Democrat or Republican or
Socialist, who would have wanted me
TO put lead on the free list or 10 have
reduced the tariff on lead. ! don't
think so. The reason for hal is this:
That Is an industry in which you peo-
pie locally are interested. The same
principles are involved out in the
eastern part of the state, where the
business interests there are connected
with the sheep industry. ! have heard
some of my good friends on the other
side say that there are only about 90
people and 200 basques interested in
the sheep industry in this state. !
want TO state hal ! have lived In Ne
Yada for a good many years and that
II Is one of the great industries of
that section. 1t brings millions of
dollars every year into the state of
Nevada, and do you think that the
people of that section expected me to
put wool on the free list, or to reduce
the tariff on wool? ] don't think so.
Now, my friends, there is another To-
cal industry that we have out at Fal-
lon, and you people out here may not
know of It. but it is true that the peo-
pie at Fallon are today building a
5000, 100000 beet sugar factory, which
is the seat of the great T~ruckee-Car-
son irrigation project in which the
government of the United States has
already expended something like
$4,000, 000.0 0 The local people
there are putting up this factory and
already have contracted for thousands
OF acres of sugar beets. | am very