The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-11-02
ACCUSE DEMOCRATS OF
STEALING REPUBLICAN THUNDER
At Largely Attended and Enthusiastic Meeting, Held Last
Evening, Judge kOGOSS Exposes FdI&nesS Of
Democratic Claims to Legislation

that Mr.. Hughes. while governor of
New York. in 1907, had secured the
passage of legislation protecting both
children and women in factories,
while four years later, ,1911, Mr.. Will
son was pointing out this very legis-
lation he finally approved, as an ex-
ample of an unconstitutional attempt
to legislate under the commerce
clause of the federal constitution.
Other laws upon which the Demo-
Gratis pinned such faith could be SIM
ilarly treated if time permitted. These
laws, however, are not partisan in
character.
There is, however, an essential and
controlling difference between the
two parties. said the speaker The
parties differ in an economic theory
in respect to the tariff, a difference
vital to the welfare of the govern
ment. Four years ago the Democratic
platform said:
The federal government, under
the constitution. has no right or
power to impose or collect tariff du-
ties, except for the purpose of reve-
nue."
The platform of 1916 declares:
I'VE reaffirm our belief in the doc
trine of a tariff for the purpose of
providing sufficient revenue for the
operations of the government"
Every time the Democrats have en-
acted tariff law based upon their
theory of revenue only" and have
displaced a Republican tarih based
upon the theory of protection to
American industry and labor" busi-
ness disaster with accompanying un-
employment followed. This was the
case during Cleyeland's administra-
ton, which was marked by CoXey
army" of unemployed. For an accu-
rate and nonpartisan view of the sit
uation which prevailed just prior TO
the breaking out of the war in Eu-
rope the speaker quoted the following
from the American Review of Re
views for August. 1914:
The administration has denied
that any general depression in indus
try exists, other than that produced
by psychological causes. The man
in the street reads his newspaper
however, that a quarter Of a million
employees have been laid off by the
railroads this year; thirteen impor-
tant railways are in the hands of re-
ceivers, with three great railway
systems-the New Haven, the Mis-
souri, Pacihc and the Rock Island
on the verge of receiyerships; the
financial records show more than for
" large corporations passing their
dividends this year"
For authority q little nearer home.
the speaker referred to a joint and
concurrent resolution introduced by
a Democrat and passed by the Neya-
da legislature March "a 1915, and
found at page 527 OF the Statutes of
1915, reading:
Whereas, unemployment is an
ever-growing problem off, national
and the several states
cannot. separately and alone, ade-
quately solve the questions incident
to the unequal distribution OF labor;
Resolved. That the Senate and AS
sembly of the state of Nevada hereby
jointly request the Congress of the
United States to investigate the
causes of unemployment and adopt
such remedial measures as may be
necessary and proper"
Contrst this situation, which ex-
listed before and shortly after the
breaking out of the European war.
with the Keynote" statement of
Governor Glynn in opening the Dem
ocratic national convention:
To-day the prosperity which the
nation enjoys bears witness that
Democracy has kept the faith"
prosperity which is based on the
misery, destruction and death caused