The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-08-22
EUROPEAN WAR
THE "SCAPECOAT'

WASHINGTON, August ga" Talk
prosperity and lay all our party's mis-
fortunes on the war;" is the order
evidently passed out by President
Wilson to his cabinet and all other
aropintees of his who obey him as he
was accustomed to have his students
in college do. The result is that men,
bers of the cabinet and departmental
officials have been very busy lately
The favorite Monday morning
STUNT among the president g
mouthpieces nowadays is to come out
with boom statements, expressing the
president view that the general
business depression is "merely psy-
Geological. Professor Wilson is
telling big business men whom he has
been calling in to see him that bust
ness is Choking up.'
"Of course it is, said an Indiana
man in Washington the other day.
cts flat on it's back and it can t
Il ok any other way
Busy Days for the Cabinet Man.
These are busy days for the cabi-
net man. Secretary Metcalf, of New
York city. whom the president put at
the head of the department of COM
merce, is having a hard time recon
cling his "boom" statements with
the cold figures in his reports. Or
cial statements of his department
show an astonishing falling of in the
amounSs of goods we are selling to
foreign countries and an equally as
tonishing increase in the goods for
eign countries are selling to us. So,
Mr.. Metcalf's figures are keeping him
very busy.
Another Busy Explainer.
Another busy explainer is Secre-
tary Wilson, of the department of
labor, who has been doing his best to
explain to the wage-earners to the
country why so many of them are idle.
He hasn't put it over vet. He
thought he had it when he issued
statement that there were plenty Of
and Missouri, but, somehow or other,
the secretary failed to point out just
how the workingman was to get up
and leave his family and take a
thousand trip to the harvest
fields ON the chance of getting job.
These men have been pretty persist
ent in want to know why they could
not keep the jobs they had under Re-
publican rule. Secretary Wilson has
not yet taken up this phase of the
inquiry.
A Promising Little Statement.
Now comes Secretary McAdoo with
a promising little statement that
We are going to have, Gin time,' a
hundred per cent in gold behind our
greenbacks. Workingmen say they
are willing to take chances on the
numbered cents, if they can only get
the greenbacks, but President Will
sons talented son-in-law fails to ex-
plain just how he is going to bring
that about. He says no necessity"
for a bond issue is "in sight, just
now and that the new Federal Reserve
system on which President Wilson
tried to force the appointment of
Thomas B. Jones the "aummy" di-
rector of the harvester trust, promises
a wonderful period of financial sta
bility.
The administration has siezed on
the European war as pretext for all
their party troubles. of it hadn't
been for the war; is familiar phase
with the Wilson explainers just now.
The currency bill was heralded to
the country last summer as an abso-
lutely non-partisan measure. Yet it
was formulated in every detail behind
the closed doors of a secret Demo-
cratic caucus and all Republicans up
on the floor of the house that took
the administration at its word and
were eager and willing to help per-
ject it into a truly non partisan law
(knowing and conceding that the
Democratic administration would get
the credit for it when it passed), were
denied the privilege of crossing a or
dotting an in it under the most
tyrannical of gag rules ever enforc
ed in recent years in congress. At
the last moment, when the bill went
to conference between the two houses,
the door was shut in the face of the
representative of the Republican par
ty on the conference committee Of the
house, thereby disfranchising mil
lions of Republicans of the country
in the making of the law.
And up to date, every nomination
of President Wilson for member of
the Federal Reserve board has been
that of Democrat.
It the administration declared
policy of filing fourth-class postmas
terships only with men that could pass
a civil service examination was meant
ia mean when it says,why are SO many
of these Offices in places where Re-
publicans stood first in that examina
tion, still unfilledf Can it be that our
public school system is such q miser-
able failure that whenever it sufi.
GENTLY educates q Republican to pass
an examination it destroys his chr
acter and fitness for public Office at
the same timef
WYE A UBEYRD DUDnnR