Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-08-26
of the public good.


stand for the rights Of labor.
organized and unorganized. For
equal standing with all other men
at the bar of justice. The working
classes are never bad if treated
as men. wrong begets wrong.
Excess breeds counter excess. No
collective body of men acting with
a desire to obtain simply justice
can go far wrong.
Organ cation has benefited not
only the men themselves, but the
world. l do not join organizations
which r the enemies of organized
labor during the winter of trouble
and then write long eulogies of
the laborers and their unions
during the anxious hours of a
political canoaign. If a friend is
worthy the name. he will be a
friend all the time. If he is an
enemy and consistent in it. he
commands respect at least. But
the man on the fence is a mere
political scare-crow. He's nobody's
friend.
When the railroads get over the
traces and trample the rights of
the people by interfering with
governmental affairs, they must be
beaten back into their proper place.
So long as they attend TO their
legitimate business. play fair and
assist in the development of the
state, they must be encouraged
and not tormented. California
has just taught them a wholesome
lesson at a proper time.
am opposed to Cannonism and
all other isms of a similar kind or
character. In training, education
and by nature, | am opposed to the
stand-pat, "do-nothing" Bourbon"
policies of the Republican party,
and have always opposed it in my
own party. Nothing could give
me greater p~leasIre than to become
another nail il the political coffin
of Uncle Je" and his Ubiquitous
policies.
There is work to do. No man
should aspire to Congress without
some definite and particular duty
in mind. There should be a fixed
object particularly beneficial to
his state. My hobby has been and
is, development by irrigation
through the preservation of waters
heretofore wasted. Not more
than one-fourth of the waters OF
Nevada are working. Appropriate
the winter flows and store them
on the hill sides for use in the
heated season. Tie new farmer
under our irrigation projects should
be given several years to get
started in before being required to
pay on either land or water. Other
wise the burden is too much for
him. No state can become great
until her citizens is anchored to
her soil. More farms will moi
make fewer mines. Cultivatine
the valleys will only increase oui
capacity for stock raising. New
pr, jects should be located where
soil is the best. Let the poorer
lands wait till the best lands have
been wet down by suitable anG
sufficiently extensive works.
Water, land and men. will make
Nevada an empire second to none
I'm ready to work, to assist those
now working.
The Republicans in their Tafr
campaign platforms not only
admitted but declared that a re,
duction Of the tariff was needed
That party is now split because
the platform was not carried out
Some claiming it,was reduced, som,
that it was not. | believe that il
it needed reduction at all, it needed
reduction sufficiently to be visible
to the naked eye and without tn,
aid of a magnifying glass in the
hand Of a financial and tariff ex,
pert. We didn't get such 6
ri reduction. The railroads are be,
ginning to feel the tariff squeeze al
n end and the reduction Of tho
freight rates at the other, so
look for the railroads to turn
democratic Dor So long as we
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