The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-07
POLITICS
BURDENS
BUSINESS
George Wingfield Delivers an Address
Before Fallon Chamber Of
Commerce
HE URGES ELECTION OF
GOOD MEN 10 OFFICE
IncOmpetents Cannot But Reflect Dis
credit Upon State-WOrk for
Greater Nevada


day night at a meeting of the local
chamber of commerce. Mr.. George
Wingfield of Reno was the princi-
pal speaker. He delivered an address
On: What is the Matter With BUSH
ness?" He spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gentle
men: 1t affords me great pleasure
to be called upon to make a few re-
marks to the people of Fallon.
We have gone too far and too fast
and with too much politics mixed in
with our business affairs. That is
what is the matter with the country
today. Bankers realized this situa-
tion long before some of our other
business men. The politicians never
find out what is the trouble until it
threatens to interfere with their
power at the ballot box but they are
finding out this trouble now. The
elections next fall may change the
complexion of both the house and
the senate at Washington. The poll
ticians know that hard times al
ways mean a change in the govern
1t SO every congressman or senator
who expects to be elected, no matter
how radical a muckraker he has been.
no matter how much of a trust
buster or railroad smasher he has
proven himself to be by his own talk
Dr htn ryOtn, In hn Ia nnU
anxious to be regarded as on the
conservative side, anxious to stem
the. tide of distrust and prevent the
further recession of prosperity. The
politician is a wise old owl.
1t seems to me that we have gone
too far in trusting to the advice OF
the incompetent and | might also say,
of those who have been proven in
competent and l think the thoughtful
persons will agree with me in this.
l note that e-President Mar.
shall, to whom some radical utter
ances have been accredited, Is now
agreeing with other prominent demo-
Gratis hat the country should b0
given a rest and business a chance
to recuperate now that the banking
and tariff bills have been enacted.
1t is better not to talk too much of
hard times. We need words of en-
couragement and not encouragement
but we cannot close our eyes to the
slump in business in every direction.
Our economical questions should not
be looked upon from the personal
standpoint but wholly from the point
of the public good. This is too big
a state for us to feel helpless as to
it's future. 1t has too many natural
resources still undeveloped. 1t has
a people honest ana patriotic who
mean to do right by each other.
They mean to give fair play to cap
ital and fair wages to the working
a They may be mislead for
awhile by selfish demagogues but
they are fast learning that a dema-
gOgue never filled a pay envelope and
never will.
Meanwhile, l ask every listener who
believes in maintaining fair play for
capital and labor in the state of Ne
vada as a whole, to take an interest
in seeing that competent and repre-
sentative men are elected to our leg
islature. irrespective of politics. We
have too many laws now and al
though it is true that some of the
bad ones are not enforced. still IL
not enforced why should we have
them? We want a legislature that
will pass laws which will tend to
build up our state and not to tear 1t
down. Churchill county has been
fortunate in having we'll bal
.anced members of the legislature than
has almost any other county in the
state. We have had too much of the
trimmer and professional politician
who goes into politics for revenue
only. Therefore, I suggest that we
a. put our shoulders to the wheel
and boost for a greater Nevada.