White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-15

hoods vouching for the fact that his
absence from the house when the
Adamson bill was passed was due to
the neglect of the brotherhood heads
to wire him ~ they had promised.
They also said they were certain
Roberts would have voted for the
Adamson bill. Roberts also told of
his success in getting a $1,000 ap-
included in the Omnibus
Building act for the purchase OF a
postofice site In Ely.
Samuel Platt, who was introduced
at $40, spoke for forty minutes and
condensed his remarks In order to
avoid delaying the dancing party
which followed the meeting. Platt
made an eloquent exposition of Re-
publican doctrine and his courtesy won
reciprocetion from the attentive as
semblage. His analysis of the Pitt
man Seven Million Acre Land Grant
Bill. now before the lower house,
having passed the senate. cleared the
air and the minds of many who have
regarded 1t as q beneficent enter
prize. Plat told how out of the pub
lie domain in Nevada 1t Is proposed
to relinquish seven millions of acres
to the state OF Nevada. He said that
by Senator Pittman's amendment the
minimum price per acre is fixed at
&1.25, but that the sale price must
be fixed by public auction. A poor
land seeker, Platt said, would be
compelled to search for land having
water and when he had developed
water he would be compelled to dis
close its location by advertisement
and submit to an auction sale and
the probability of being outbidded by
men of wealth. If the land were not
segregated to the state, Platt said,
the settler could homestead it and ac-
quire 1t on the payment of ten cents
an acre without an auction and by
complying merely with the liberal
homestead laws.
This is not all, Plat declared. He
said Senator Pittman had publicly an
nourced his intention of having seq
regated in a like manner all the pub
lie domain in Nevada. thus removing
it from the custody and assistance of
the United States.
such consummation would be
a positive calamity" Platt declared,
IF 1t should be my privilege | would
oppose such a plan and on the con-
trary seek more millions of appro-
priations from the United States to
reclaim, irrigate and develop the
land of Nevada as the only salvation
of our state"
The declaration was met by tu-
multuous applause.
In the brief time left the speaker
eloquently touched on the traditional
policies of America which he said
were being radically abandoned by
the present administration. He as
serted that the American doctrine of
neutrality laid down by Washington
and Jefferson had been thrown to the
v inds in Mexico when we attempted
to interfere in the internal political
affairs of Mexico and name the Mexi-
can president He touched earnestly
on the fast fading significance of the
American flag In foreign lands. You
are entitled to the protection of your
country and country's flag everywhere
where you are on lawful business,
said Platt. 'and the administration
that does not give 1t loses the right to
claim to be an American administra-
ton. whatever its motives may be.
We must restore the principles OF
II we would restore
American prestige and insure the per-
petuity OF the American nation The
speaker proceeded and cited the
Americanism of Republican and
Democratic presidents alike in enforc.
ing Americanism. He mentioned the
sharp message of Roosevelt to Nor
occo and the name off Roosevelt
reused cheer. He cited the Amer
icanism of Graver Cleveland in the
xrara,uoIo {pcfdont whon the Rritish