Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-03-08
THAT DIVORCE QUESTION.

Within the next six months, through the
agency of syndicate now forming, Reno will
be converted into an international matrimonial
laundry for the cleansing of the domestic linen
of not only Nevada, not only the United States
and Canada, but that of all Great Britain and
Continental Europe Former Senator Dix W.
Smith of New York, at the Baptist church of
Reno, Sunday night.
The above startling revelation has proven
startling enough to even starte Reno, the hot
bed of divorce evil Of the world. The pious
parsons Of the city in which cure may be
effected for any matrimonial ulcer have been
compelled to sit up and take notice. They have
even started crusade against the divorce
laws The crusade may be the square,
but it strikes the casual observer as being the
real old 'bul." These same parsons when the
gambling law before the legislature two
years ago, carried their wrath to Carson City
and simply raised hell'' on that question. with
the result that the solons put the worst crimp
into this state that she has ever received. Not
so, however, with the divorce law. These same
parsons, probably subsidized by the merchants
OF Reno, who make fat their purses through
the extravaganza of fair divOrcees" sat idly
by and allowed the divorce law" to be de-
feated i'll the present session Of the legislature
But now that someone comes along, loaded for
bear, apparently with inside information it is
most clear to the spiritual guides of the city of
divorce sores" that they must at least say
something. OF course the time is most appro-
pirate for the "slly-pilots' to let ont yell that
can be heard from the depths of the internal
region clear to the Judgment seat high.
But what's the use? Already the dirty work
most desired by Reno and executed through the
Washoe delegation in Carson City has been ac-
complished The measure that would have lent
to the state of Nevada a sembance of respect
ability has been defeated Reno is legally en-
tited to her divorce stink pot for another
two years. The fair name of this state has once
more been sacrificed the altar of greed
Hence the parsons get busy and shoot off
their bazoos to their souls delight. Reno has
and the parsons who exist off of the i'll
gotten gains, derived by the merchants from
the matrimonial corrupt, allowed to tnrn
loose and raise hell to their heart s content
According to the statement of Mr. Smith,
made in Reno Sunday night: !
BY September first it is considered highly
feasible and probable that through the work
ings of this agency (the divorce syndicate)
10000 people will be brought to Reno for this
purpose (divorce) from all parts of Europe"
This remark should strike JOY to the heart
of every "blood sucker" who is in business in
Reno, for the purpose of extracting from those
seeking from the storm of matrimony's
seas every penny that the tariff will stand.
They should swell up with pride to learn that
10000 derelicts will find surcease from the
worries OF matrlmony while IN their midst OF
course they will swell still more when they take
pencil in hand and figure out the possible
amount of coin this $4,000 will leave in Reno
as the toll for Nevada's corruption fund.
Sodom and GOmorrah of old must have been
veritable paradise compared with what the
fair city on the banks of the Truckee will be
by the time the new syndicate has gotten down
to business and commenced it's wholesale di-
vorce grist-m running full blast It will not
be surprising to learn that arrangements have
been made with trans continental railroads and
transatlantic steamship companies for 'bar-
gain Reno rates. Should the same PROPOSE
ton be put to the Lot of Reno-provided
there may be one at that time-would it be
anything of surprise if his wife should ''lool
back?'
In the olden days of "Judge Lynch" there
was not tester in the entire western country
so putrid as this "divorce colony of which
Reno proudly boasts Much disparaging has
been said about gambling and the gamblers.
but the crookest gambler would blush for
shame at the blight that is at present being
cast the name of the state of Nevada as
result of the easy divorce-slide and the latest
startling revelation of the international syndi-
cate,' which will bring the worlds matrimonial
misfts to Reno.
President Stubs of the University of Ne
vada is in the same class with the pulpit-fillers
of Reno He belched forth riotously and loudly
against the gambling evil, in chorus with the