The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-11-24
SENATOR BORAH'S IDEA
SEEMS

SEEMS REASONABLE
What good does it do for the United
States to raise huge crops if the latter
cannot be marketed? 1t was a com
plant of Senator Borah. in an article
recently published by the New York
Times, that throughout large Sec
tions of the West farmers who this
year sturdily did their utmost TO pro-
duce. as demanded by the pleadings
of the government, stand, neverthe-
less to lose heavily because, from lack
of transportation and storage faci!i-
ties and systematic plans of distribu-
ton, their surplus must rot, and they
themselves be the poorer. instead OF
the richer, for their prodigality of
effort. He says that it is too much to
ask of human nature that these men
shall be expected to repeat their ex-
~perience in another crop year.
Viewing the Western and its COM
plant from an Eastern standpoint,
the New London Comm Day adds:
1t is too much. Senator Borah's ON
plant is true, and it reveals a condi-
ton which emphatically needs rem
edying. By another spring it will be
imperative for the national govern
ment to have cleared the transporta-
ton situation so that it can make
absolute pledge of unimpeded distri-
button for the following harvest, to
guarantee sure profit to the farmers,
and to have made effective arrange
ment for the supply of labor in the
fields. These are hard things to &C
complish, but the government must
accomplish them, or fail in its vitality
important work of providing for 1918
far greater American crops than those
of the present year.
To have added a note of hope to its
undoubtedly correct comment, the
Day might also have said the the
government of the United States can
accomplish these things-it must and
can. If the men to whom the affairs
of government are now entrusted are
not big enough, they must be re-
placed by others. Our Allies have
seen this to be true. Practically al
is no time for the man who will say
that certain things can not be done
because methods with which he is
accustomed fail to accomplish bigger
results when necessary. Our heads
of government must be big enough TO
master the situation, whatever it is.
For n thing, the fact must be openly
recognized that so-called lack of
transportation facilities" are o. often
mere connivance of railroads with
those Napoleons of finance who would
run a corner"-no matter what the
~phraseology of today may be for that
Infamous proceeding.
We still incline to the opinion that
Mr.. Hoover is a mar big enough for
his job, but the fact is evident that
he must speed up. The u~nprintable
"cuts" which were sent out from his
department to further the food-pledge
campaign are one evidence of slight
ing the work of the nation in time OF
need. To express our opinion, the
government was swindled in buyiug
its supply of printing stuff. and 1t
would not have been swindled had
there been competent supervision.
Regarding affairs of the Treasury
Department, the failure to deliver the
second issue of Liberty Loan bonds rs
definitely promised. on top of the lone
delay in delivery of the first issue, l.
proof of incompetency. The ALLEGED
literature coming from the department.
is a worse proof.