The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

New YORK. The bootDIacK in Nevada
has a greater voting power than all
the Aston, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller
Pierpont Morgan families in New
York; we may add the Drexels, the
Childs, the Strawbridges, the Me-
dis, the Pattersons, the Forgans,
and the McCormicks of Illinois; and
jumping to California WI may in
clude the Crockers, the Phelans, the
Floods, the Colemans and the Spreck-
els. Include all these and the vot-
ing power of the Nevada bootblack,
as affecting the United States e n
ate, is yet not fully matched.
New York has thirty-five import
ant universities and colleges. The
combined voting power of the presi-
dents of these thirty-five educational
institutions is less than one-third the
voting power of the presidents of
these thirty-five educational institu-
tions is less than one-third the voting
power of the Nevada bootblack in
relation to the greatest legislative
body of the republic.
The heads of the greatest railroad
systems of the world live in New
York and Pennsylvania, but there are
o railroad presidents enough in
both states to match the voting pow
er of the Nevada bootblack as to the
United States senate.
The presidents of Yale, Harvard,
Dr;poafon Co1nn,hio CORNELL and tha
universities of Pennsylvania, New
York. Michigan, Chicago, California,
Minnesota, all combined have less vot-
ing power than the Nevada boot
black. To match his voting strength
in other states, we must pick in Cali
Ohio IS, in Illinois 6S, in Pennsyl-
vania SO, in New York III men.
whether they be bootblacks, merch-
ants, ~banners, railroad presidents or
college presidents.
If the franchise be an inherent
right, regardless of the will of the
majority, then so far as the laws of
the republic are concerned the citi-
zen of Nevada, compared with the
citizen of New York has had his
right multiplied by Ill.
We are not opposing the extension
of the franchise, but simply asking
that it's claims be neither eXaggerat-
ed nor ignored. If it lei a greater
good to the greater number and a
majority of the people of both exc
believe so, it should be granted. But
if only a minority believe it, this mi
nority has no right, legal, moral or
political, that is worth the breath re-
quired to claim it. There are minor
ity rights that majorities are morally
bound to recognize, but this is not
n of them.
We would not claim thta condi-
lions in Colorado and Wyoming are
due to woman suffrage, but we may
properly reflect hal these states
were the pioneers in the movement;
that the women have been voting in
in Colorado for twenty-one years.
Probably not by reason of it, but in
spite of it, they are regarded as two
of the worst governed states in the
republic. There is no other state,
unless we consider Utah and Idaho
where it could be claimed that time
has afforded a test.
There are many women, mothers
and wives, who would shield them
selves and their daughters and their
sisters from the responsibilities and
activities the franchise would in
volve. They believe it's influence on
the home and on woman herself, is
not good. They believe that the
Der lies in another direction.
These women are at least entitled
to be heard.