The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-12-18
CURRENCY BILL
BEFORE HOLIDAYS
Especial to the Silver state.)

pessimistie forecasts, the prospect
for the passage of the banking and
currency bill before Christmas looks
very good at this writing, and if the
senate but keeps up its gait there will
be no doubt regarding the enjoyment
of Christmas holidays by congress.
E Some politicians openly express
wonder because of the hold the presi-
dent has on the country at large. But
there shoul be no wonder about it,
The politicians hold it against the
president that he is no politician but
merely "school teacher The
people have admitted that this is any
thing to the discredit of the presi-
dent. They have observed that he is
honest, Industrious, unassuming and
/ they believe wise. Maybe he is more
of a free trader than some of them
would desire him to be, perhaps his
money bill may not be approved in
every particular, perhaps the Camp
bellites may question his Presbyterian
tenets, but on the whole the people
believe he is on the level and they
will overlook a great deal on that ac-
count.
Seeing America.
stimulating, but it is a good thing to
see ones own land first Nineteen fif
teen is scarcely more than a twelve
months distant, and it promises to be
the greatest travel year in the history
OF the country
Transportation companies are at
work now getting ready for the great
rush of business that will greet them
with the dawn of 1915. Everybody
intends sometime to visit the Pacific
coast, and exposition year will offer
an especially tempting opportunity to
do so, for there will not only be the
double exposition attractions at San
Francisco and San Diego (the latter
being something different and
unique), with railroad rates lower.
perhaps, than have ever before been
made. 1t is said that very large
number of tickets have already been
purchased on the installment plan by
salaried people who expect to take a
vacation worth while in 1918. The
general disposition on the part of
transportation people is to have the
public see as much of the great west
as possible. Most people will prob
ably go west on one route, then trav-
erse the length of the Pacific coast
and return by another route. stopping
according to personal preferences to
see things which may appeal to the
individual as of especial interest.
Oregon, Washington, Montana, Ida
no, and in brief the great northwest
or, as it was long known, "the Ore
gon country offers some great at
fractions Tor travellers. From Puget
Sound outward the majestic noun
tains and splendid forests contribute
unrivalled scenery, and Oregon has in
Crater lakes an attraction which can
be matched nowhere else in the
world. Imagine an immense crater
in an extinct volcano with the bottom
of it filed with water bluer than sum-
mer skies, and with the crater wall
towering aloft above the lake for
half a mile. TIL government has set
apart this unique lake and the noun
tains surrounding it las a National
park, and thousands of people visit il
every summer There are MANY other
points of interest, some better known
than this, while some are scarcely
known at all, but all are worthy of
study and investIga ton
II is good thing for people to get
acquainted with their own country.
to learn that the inhabitants of one
section of it are not essentially diff
ferent from the inhabitants of other
sections, and that all are good citi-
zens, working in their own ways for
the same ends For this reason. if
for no other, the holding of great ex.
positions and other events which
stimulate travel between tie states
should be encouraged by everyone.
and especially by congress, in every
proper and legitimate manner. Some
persons, indeed, like Senator Brady.
Of Idaho, and Speaker Champ Clark,
assert that unless a man has travelled
at least once across the continent and
back, he is scarcely fit to sit in the
halls of congress to make laws for
the people. This is especially true,
perhaps, of members of congress from
the east, who are more provincial and
narrow in their views than the west
ern men because as a rule the latter
are more widely travelled and know
more about the country at large.
Schumann- -Heink's Pride.
Nine. Schumann- Heink, the famous
songstress, is more proud of her sons
than of anything else, even her
triumphs on the stage. She has
ranch" at San Diego, now almost
surrounded by the expanding city and
scarcely a gun-shot from the grounds
of the San Diego exposition. Gross
mont is the name of the place, and on
it the young Schumann-H Heinks are
engaged in growing oranges, lemons. |
olives, grapes for wine and raisins, |
pomegranates. alligator pears, guavas,
sugar cane and a few dozen other |
things some of which are in the ex
perimental stages. The great singer
has expressed the intention for her
self and her sons of taking some or
the prizes at the exposition for pro