Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-12-26
WHAT "HYSTERIA" IS

Secretary of the Navy Daniels in
his address before the North Caro-
lima Society ut New York the other
night spoke of "hysteria" as ap-
piled to the present administra-
tion. He said:
"A.few days ago a distinguished
educator from a southern state, in
a speech in New York, declared
that such new and progressive
measures as the initiative and ref
erendum> we're revolutionary
Another distinguished authority,
a statesman and an educator, refer
red to certain modern American
political doctrines IS wild theor-
ies.' which common sense and wise
experience demand to be rejected
as the result of hysteria.'
"The real trouble is that this So
called 'hysteria' hurts. It. keeps
party pledges; it does not take
from labor the bread it earns; it
makes protection-built wealth paw
the income tax. II elects senator's
direct from the people. They call
it hysteria because it means we
can have ne more sepators from
the New York Central railroad, no
more senators from the Southern
Express company, no more senators
from the New York, New Haven
& New Hartford railroad, no more
senator's from the Standard Oil
trust.
They call it hysteria because il
prevents the classes from exploit,
ing the masses and brings the gov,
eminent back to the people. After
all the real victims of hysteria are
not the people who stand upon
house tops and cry for reform, but
the people who r guarding spec,
ial privileges and are seeing the
castles built by privilege tumbled
down about their heads.
mo, gentlemen, the victims OF
hysteria are not the forward look.
ing, promise-keeping reformers
who quietly convince the people
that this e. way. this gospel OF
progressive craftsmanship, IS best
for the country, but your hvsteri,
cal man is that incarnate. self-ap.
pointed claimant Of patriotism who
madly waves the stars and stripes
with mi hand ami grips his rebate
provided, protection fostered
wealth with the ether, and bewails
an alleged tendency to put an enc
to class legislation, who wildly pro,
claims that we are tuning away
from these fundamental principles
through which we have come to ouI
present high estates.
legislatures in the recent pas
have been the favorites Of great
corporations. Thew have felt tht
compelling power from higher
ups. The impersonal element in the
situation made it hard to cure, but
at last the axe has been laid at The
root Of the tree and the people
have demanded that all this can bC
changed. How? By legalized pri
maries, sven for president; by pure
food laws: by an income tax: bS
a lower tariff; by laws to protect
seamen; by regulation Of trusts; By
the abolition of interlocking direct,
crates and rebates, etc.
Take the tariff. The men who
revised it were not hysterical. They
used figures and facts. They
were painstakiDg, scientific and
what was the answer? The bene.
ficiaries Of protection, the infant
industries, gray and hoary with
age. and obese from their long pull
at the pap bottle. cried out: You
are going to impoverisb our coup-
try Four months under the new
tariff have passed, and the report
Of Secretary Of Commerce Redfeld,
the flooding Of our markets with
the cheap wares of Europe, has not
happened, as predicted, and Amer
ica's foreign trace Is still evidenc-
ing a healthy growth"