The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-06

UE&33u mngs political in a very matter-of-fact way, with all the hurral
EWW1HWWHH and waving of banners and wearing of buuttons and belief o
HSSNan political ties eliminated; and the result of his cogtaton
NGD "a SO surprising to himself that he took his pen in hand ant
- wrote a letter to the editor of the Portland oregonian, telHne
that newspaper all about the hey line of thought-not exactly new. either, t
the idea which is pounding its way into the heads of man citizens of the
United States today. This is what he said:
To the Editor:-It is alleged that MI. Wilson thinks the people are behint
him.. He is right In fact there seems to be enc sae place on the landscape
except behind. A while ago a good many of is thought We werea about to re
mixed in the world IA and wanted % get ready fr ii, and talked more OF
less; Sc he kindly took US o his knee, analysed our case.c classified III as
us r bebnd. on0''s' u to be calm lest" e spill the BEANS and 0e'h0ne'
The war car He said it was the peoples and that W e we're going
to fight to make the world safe for democracy. We didn't know, of course
but before he spoke We had an idea W were going tic fight for much the
same reason every "a turns out with a shotgun when a mad dog appears;
oue we % oehno. Ihereafe W obeyed Ill sorts of rules and regulations
without comment, whether W e approved or not, in a way that surprised even
ourselves and demurely got behind In fact it "a unpopular to appear
anywhere in the procession except behind There was n other place to 60
without regard to how well dressed up W e were.
rubber stamp n cbncked il in behind Evsrv, do. ar 80 na ns ~ mo a
not IN accord with Mr.. Wilson's ideas a wrong, of course. All Oft them he
promptly corrected o ignored, adjusted III several knobs to prevent our
nwinding too soon, and kindly allowed US to jog along behind.
The truth is, the house "a on fire and W were all doing what we could
and there "a no time for conversation; but just why silence should impress
one with ideas of inherent infallib1ity is o apparent. At least. u great
President won the war; and then came the casualty lists. We we're all ap-
palled and thousands of parents, relatives and friends of the men over there
we're t1eke with grief and apprehension, and they wanted to know-above
The mail system broke down entirely. The cables. always inadequate
were tucked IN behind There "a n adequate new of this sort, SC all
these people yer left to fret and mourn their hearts ut for weeks ant
m0nIhs,a n only God and those who suffered know what 1T was like.
Mr.. Wilson, too. "a filled with grief He said as much, and fastened to
bind up the nations wounds. This done. he assembled a great armada
Europe to receive The plaudts Of tbe world and oomnonua an sa" e@ m 0u
ills to which flesh is heir. % and forever. Our hearts stood still lest the
COLLINS should get EN-. but piess publicity as soon spilled all about and
tn cable groaned with new of receptions by kings and Of luncheons and
gowns n an assorted lot of fatdoodle of one kind and andher-balm to
tn souls of those who waited for new of the boys owe there.
. arrival 1t was suggested by ONE to formulate peac terms first. h mi
III such weres showed behind that the League of Nations might be scrambled
with The peace terms so that it might be rammed down the Senat all toeetber
whether II liked the dose or not And now nearly five long months have ons
by since thu armistce ws signed. and the world is still marking time. Rome
burned while Nero fddled. Yes, Mr. Wilson is right in his surmise that the
folk re behind him. and al sure when he emerges from the woodshed in
1920 he will have ample evidence that such is, indeed. the fact.
A doughboy could o resist the temptation to lnternDt a sDeecb "
shipboard orator who as dilaung o what America had done for her sol
ders Yes" he said, W fought for democracy and you "a us snankh
influenza INT prohibition! . GSan Francisco Chronicle.
Lassen responds to the opening of the tourist season by acbing sort
fire and smoke and shaking up the adjoining scenery with those delicious
tremors that do n o harm yet form a distinct asset for extracting dor,are
from the conhding sghtseer-[The Tonopah Bonanza
One thing, the San Francisco woman who took ship thu other dav for
Japan to-as she put it-rid that country of the bnghung curse of rum
doesn't need to keep hot pouluces on her nerve to keep it from going tornid
THE Macon Telegraph.
"A cry of deepest despair is going NJ all vel Germany ecaus u, te
terms o peace announces Herr Scheidemann But that is nothing to the cry
OF despair that went up all over Belgium!-lNew York Evening Mail
No issue is OF less importance in this period of the history O, he world
han that issue inspired by a desire to gain selfish advantage or political
ascendancy-lThe Christian Science Monitor.
Newark pastor whose critics accused him of a tendencv towara .m,.,
ment is rewarded by an increase in salary. Verify. the world groweth kind
her and saner apaee-[New York Herald.
News from Washington yesterday as that one-third of tn yictorv Loan
had been subscribed in two-thirds of the time SCI apart for subscriptions