The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-11
AFRAID u. s. WILL
BE 'fUROP[AN|ztD

saThis country over here is a me
one TO visit, but it is so far behind
ours in every other respect that am
going to be always satisfied with the
United States hereafter"
The above is the closing paragraph
of a letter from a man who enlisted
shortly after the war started, and VINO
has been on the other side about a
year.
Little does he know what a strong
effort is being made by the politicians
in this country to 4Europeanize' n
"paternalize" this nation in his abb
sence.
This man has en the lack OF lni-
tiative in the common people in u
tries where the government controls
the great utilities such as the trans
portation, telephG- and telegraph
systems, as well as many other ines
of industry.
He has been in a country where the
common people" nev heard of such
things as telephones and electric
| lights in their own homes. These con-
v~eniences were for the rich and "offi-
| cial class" only. The government con-
| trolled the supply and there was no
competition, and so why furnish cheap
phones and juice to the people?
This is simply Illustrative of the
| system.
This man expects to come home to
a country such as he left, where the
private individual was at liberty to de-
velop and grow and build up a BUSH
ness under the protection of a consti-
tuition guaranteeing him those rights.
He doesn't expect to come home and
find his country "Europeanized' and
"paternalized" so that the door is for
ever closed to him as a private citizen
TO enter the field of ~railroading, the
| telephone, telegraph, OF cable bust
ness, the maritime industry, as a pri-
vate owner of ships. and numerous
other lines.
This man, the same as thousands of
other Americans, would never be sat
isfed to be a mere cipher all his life
and draw pay as a government clerk,
with no chance of advancement, or
-.
hold down o soft berth on a ship, with
a soft bed and good meals, as so al
luringly pictured by Mr.. Hurley in
his program of complete government
| operation of the entire American mer-
chant marine.
This MAI doesn't want to be petted
and pampered and made a mere ward
of the government.
He wants an Americans chance to
build and develop along lines of indi-
vidual initiative, under the protection
of the American flag.
This man little realizes that while
he has been away from home fighting
lOl uSluoCidCy III lOlelSu lduuS, all
organized movement has been started
in his W country to control the
opportunities which have heretofore
been the birthright of every Ameri-
can.
Men like this American. saved the
world from e rman autocracy, and
freedom of tIo .Adiyidu Il.
Is he to CO Q home to a country
ready to establish an official aristoc-
racy to control virtually every move
of an American citizen?
He has seen this system in opera
ton in foreign lands and he is long
ing for the day when he can get back
to the good old U. S. A. as he knew it
before the war.
Whether you be laboring man or
capitalist, this is your country, and it
is going to be up to you to decide
whether you stay with American ira
ditions and principles or step back
ward a hundred years and switch to
a system which brought about a world
war.
Let the people think.-[The Manu-
facturer.