The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1916-10-27

the park.
run and you must run them or go to
prison. In the meantime the gov
ernment will inquire into the rights
or the wrongs of your contention and
will decide the matter"
In my ignorance it would appear to
me that this couid be done and should
have been done instead OF confisicat-
ing the property of the railroad
stockholders as has undoubtedly been
done by the bill
| know Mr. Editor, that these ques-
tions | am asking are hard ones and
| don't expect YOU to Try and answer
them but maybe some OF the readers
of your valuable paper will explain
the matter to me and likewise 10 MY
fellow foreign born voters and they
are things we should know before We
go to the polls to cast our votes.
by the way. there is another thine
that troubles me. One OF my boys is
in the sheep business aud of course
he wants TO gel just as much rance
ior the sheep as he possibly saa. As
long as Mr. Wilson allows our manu-
the Atlantic to the Allies, inst chat
long is the price OF wool to keep up
As part of the destructive force which
.s wiping out the nation which we as
children were taught 10 love, there
should be some recompense To MS, so
We can supply part of the wool for
The good American dollars. Now /
understand Mr.. pittman. who spoke
sunday. has bill In the Senate
which viii give to the sheepmen, II
they band together and form large
companies with plenty of capital. a
bout 1000 900 acres of land This
would make a fine sheep and cattle
range. The price may be pretty high
to get. but when one thinks OF the
high price pasture land brings now.
IL would be cheap in the long run.
Now on the other hand | have some
good land in the Valley and some of
my friends have good land only the
water Is scarce. III We had more
water we could do a great deal better
time that a big dam would be built in
the mounteins and we would then
have plenty of water. Mr.. Newlands
who is the other senator at Washing
ton. promised us he would do all ne
could for us and would get MS the
dam. but | guess he has been pretty
busy at Washington and has not got
around to il. Some say he is a young
man yet and will get around to ii in
tine. At any rate this is what
want to know: Now If the govern
ment gives this land to the state who
viii build the reservoirs that Nevada
needs to water these lands? viii the
state put up the money and if the
state does put up tie money to build
these dams what will be the tax
rate IL looks to me That the best
place for all this land would be in the
hands OF the government MS the gov
ernment can build the big dams end
no. cend all the people TO the poor
house on account of the taxes.
You will kindly excuse me on ac-
count of being so ignorant. Mr.. editor.
went to school in the old country
and learned to read and write and
that is about ell. This political game
Is little too much for me and ii gives
me a headache trying to reason out
what they are driving at If Mr.. Will
son has been such good man and
has done such wonderful things for
the country, why don't we all know
about it and be satisfied? Seems to
me as If he forgot to tell the people
all these years iust what he did do
and the people were ell asleep.
Thanking you for your kindness.
Mr.. Editor
! remain most respectfully,
A German American.