Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-10-13
WILSON'S DUTY.

Governor Woodrow Wilson has work before
him that will preclude any chance of his playing
the part of Moses to the democratic party if he
listens to the request made by the people of
Orange, n. }. The request is that Governor Wood
row Wilson engage in task to which the great
est of the labOrs of Hercules seems insignificant
1t is no less than request that he take an active
part i'll DISCRIMINATING the mosquitoes Of New
Jersey.
According to the petition filed by the people
OF Orange. the mosquitoes OF New Jersey have
been more voraciOus more determined and more
vicious during the past summer than before.
Their population is increasing like that of a
southern California town in the real estate re-
por's The people OF Orange have been sitting
o"i.nd their screen doors all summer battling
with the pests that crawl down the chmneys or
batter their way through the doors. Their
countenances have been stmg out of all human
Sembance and the cattle have been dragged away
by the larger species of Jersey "skeeterS. -
Obviously something must be done. 1t would
not be fair for the governor of New Jersey to
start on long stumping tour where the mos
quitoes few and far between while the peo-
pie of his own beloved state are beseiged by the
winged hcrdes Of animated stings He would be
laid open to the charge that he pretended to seek
the nomination solely for the opportunity to tray
4 through other states and to escape the plague
OF mosquitoes.
II Woodrow Wilson is a conscientious govern
not leave New Jersey until the last mosquito
has broken his bill or winged his way beyond
the border lines of New Jersey. Duty and the
plea of the people Of Orange will compel him t,
remain with his feet firmly planted on the sol
of New Jersey while there is lump the face
Of the oldest or youngest nhabitant.
If Governor Wilson is the determined man We
think him to be. he will at once take swattel
IN his hand and hasten to Orange to swat the
mosquito. 1t is true that hundreds of thousands
have already swatted the Jersey 'skeeters" witt
but small results. AS yet no governor has swat
ted mosquitoes. except those which have come
within his own personal range No chief execu
tive has really gone after the Jersey 'skeeter" il
the interests of humanity and large scale
That is what Governor Wilson is called upol
TO do.
The average .Jerseyite Swats for himself alone
But the governor is sort of superJerseyite He
will swat for all the people, if he starts Il
may be that this is just what the Jersey "skeet
err nceds-sOmebody after him with determine
ton and the spirit OF self-sacrifice, somebody who
will rush into the swarming hOrdes of ''skeeters
as Arnold Winkelried rushed upon the spears.
1t looks very much though Governor vii
son would have to remain and face the sting'
and arrows of the skeeters. 1t would be incon
gruouS for him to start out to save the country
while his state was still under the stine
Of the mosquito Let the governor 90 forth t.
the dangers Of Orange, New Jersey Let hin
swat WIN NlgOf ana determination. 1T may bt
that he can drive from that stricken soil the de
vastators that have held it for so many centuries
II he can do this there is no one who would
dare question his eligibility for the Democrat,
nomination, not even the 'peerless one" Thu
man WHO can drive the mosquitoes out Of New
Jersey can be trusted to overcome any difficulties
that may face the republic If the governor doe
not Snccecd-and the chances that he will no
he will have endeared himself to his peop,
for the effort He will not have been stun!
ia vain.