Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-05-13
THE OAKLAND ELECTION.

Commenting on the recent Oakland city cleo
tom and on the good luck which kept that city
from the hands of socialistic regime, the San
Francisco Chronicle has the following to say:
The election of Tuesday assured the people
of Oakland a good set of officers to naurgurate
their new city charter and administer it for
the first official term.
1t is unfortunate that the division Of votes
does not show the real socalled socialist vote,
for, as usual there was allied with that vote
every element of disreputable politics in the city
There is doubt that sOcalstic fallacies
have infected large number of good citizens
and honest men, especially honest workingmen.
But that party also includes every loafer in
the country and there is no way of determin-
ing the relative strength of the two wings What
we have to reckon with is the fact that to the
honest socialists there will always be attached the
OffScOurings Of society, and they cannot be got
rid Of
Control Of few municipalities by sincere
and honest socialists, however unfortunate for
those particular municipalities, would not be at
all bad for the country. There can be no cure
for the soclallstic disease prompt, so effectua
and permanent a demonstration of its
utter incapacity. Government by the incapable
is hard on those governed, but it could not last
long, for common sense is mighty and will
prevail.
But the success of an alliance of honest but
incapable socialists with dishonest but very ca
pable political rOustabOuts is too heroic remedy
to take if it can be avoided. The unfortunate
people of Berkeley have taken the dose and it
will be pretty sick city for the next two years.
Very likely, however, it will result in a cure
Socialist dreamers would tax enterprise and
industry out Of existence in the effort to came
hOrate" the condition of mankind faster than
the earnings of mankind will suffice to foot
the bills.
But when socialists succeed in an American
municipality it is only by the alliance with a
gang which will either get the money raised
for useful purposes abandon the alliance and
leave the socialists high and dry
Moreover, in Milwaukee, the news of a
socialist government makes the city the Mecca
for all the worthless hOboes in the country who
flock there in the expectation of living without
work on the proceeds of the exploitation Of
successful industry.
Happily Oakland has escaped this calamity
It will have good government and the Sin.
dustrias workers" and other hOboes will move
over the line to Berkeley
This alleged socialist uprising will have its
run, like other crazes. 1t is largely the result
| OF undertaking, and the net product of the two
! forces is that the United States is the one coun
| try on earth where for the time being enter
prise Is killed, factories idle except for the
| supply of present necessities, workngmen are
without work and money piles up in the banks
because no one daras to attempt to put it tC
| beneficial use.
Great Britain, Germany, France and Canad;
have been enjoying for the last two years on,
OF the most active and prosperous industrial
and commercial periods in their entire history
| Mexico was in the. same class until invaded
| by American muckrakers and anarchists
The United States stands alone in the worlC
as an example of the progress of great nation
arrested by undertaking.