Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-11-28
FRIDAY EVENING,
NO LONGER FRIGHTENED

The recent elections indicate that the voters of the United
States are no longer frightened by the threats of the big in
telests to produce industrial and financial panes. For many
years the Republican party held a great club over the voters.
1t was merely the prediction of a great panic to follow Demo
cratic success coupled with the threat to produce the panic if
necessary.
Because the voters believed that the great financial inter
ests had both the power to produce the panic Is well as the dis
position, they went to the polls and voted against their own in
clinatiOns, covering under the menace OF hard times that threaten
ed them.
They saw the visions of factories shut down and the black
cloud of a financial cyclone gathering in the sky and an abject
fear guided their hand when they voted.
This situation might have continued indefinitely had not a
great detection o the part of the Republican party riven 1t
asunder and crumbed it into a ruin a year ago when the voters
got their inning and elected a Democratic president who was
pledged to a tariff revision downward.
1t has been demonstrated that the prOphesy of panics was
merely stuff that dreams r made of and it wa further demon
strated that there is 10 much prosperity in the country that the
great financial interests re powerless to produce a panic made
to order a S they had hoped to do.
. In this connection an article from the Springfield Republic
can, an old standby Of the Republican party in Massachusetts
makes interesting reading. In a n issue OF recent date 1t says
in speaking of the returns of the third district of Massachusetts:
''The third district is the heart of the commonwealth and con-
tains may manufacturing towns-precisely the kind of district
one would suppose to be affected by the new tariff law. A year
ago, the late Congressman Wilder carried the district for the
Republicans by a plurality of 3,2O3. His Republican successor
this week was elected by a plurality of but l55. Examining the
returns OF the district more closely one finds that the Progressive
congressional vote this year was just two votes less than last
year, or 5,2s5 as against 52s7; that the Republican vote fell from
l2,945 last year to 11,O27 this year. The gain of 1880 votes for
The emOcfa immediately a1tef the e. tafn1 IaW vel INTO
effect in an old time Republican district as likely a S any in Mass
achusetts to revolt against tariff revision downward, can not but
be accepted as conclusive evidence that thus far there has been
no popular uprising against the one important achiev ement to
date of the Wilson administration
1t is claimed that the brilliant and accomplished Lady War,
wick of London is now a hasbeen. She is no longer invited to
any of the fashionable functions and is snubbed IN every side.
OF all the members of the British arstocracy she was the most
brilliant and her mental gifts far surpassed those with whom
she came in contact. Royalty now snubs her and this is the signal
for the wolves of the social set to fall upon and devour her. She
is being treated just as the leader of the pack is in the Arctic.
Once down the other dogs tear the fallen one to pieces. Nonenities
that she outshone for a quarter of a century now have their
inning.
The case against the last bunko steerer in San Francisco
has been dismissed. Not long ago there was a great cutlery
against a gang of bunko men who had been arrested, caught with
the goods, etc. 1t looked as if the proof wa so clear that they
would all go to the penitentary for long terms. One by one,
however, the cases against them We're dismissed and now the
last one has been turned loose to ply his vocation a usual. One
wonders how much these men paid for their liberty and to whom
the money went.
Judge Hand of San Francisco recently remarked from the
bench that if you started to bar lascivous literature from the
mails that Smollett, Swift and Dickens would have to go. While
the two first mentioned authors came under the ban, Dickens does
not. We think that Judge Hand would find it hard to point
out a single paragraph of Dickens that could be classed as las
civious. There is not a single chapter of Dickens that could not
be read in any company.
1t is claimed that a legless woman in New York who was
connected with a vaudeville show jumped" her contract. She
is being sued by her former manager. He claims that he liked
her principally because she did so little kicking.
1t may surprise many to learn that an antisavery bill nas