The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-12-13

T1WTU ndTdy grasp ~ significance o such figures Should that sun
OF money, in silver dollars be dumped on top of this town you
couldn't find the town with a search warrant If any drunken sailor" ever
burned up money like that he is not mentioned in history. Coal-on johnny
as a piker. d al is oe M the armistce a signed a year ago. and
the taxation and corresponding drunk that Uncle Sam went o two or three
ears ago still continues. with n o signs whatever Of a SOLDERING up
Eight billion dollars! Can you beat it? Where is this big drunk ito end
in the madhouse or in the grave? No wonder small business men ae being
crowded to the wall and do not know from n months end to another
whether they will be able to pay the six or eight different kinds of taxation
IS accumulated by a income * supposed to make the rich come through"
Millions of people who are anything but rich have to come across" with
goes " 10 washington and here is handled by electric cranes, which lift
In monster bales onto bonfres. as it were, which are burning to high heaven
and lighting up the skies until all Europe ca SEE to read by it-and get its
rakeon OF a few more hundreds of millions.
And how does it get you and me-? Nothing easier. Every time you 90
To te butcher shop TO a piece Of ump steak of neck, it is right there in the
bill Every time you go out for a pair of shoes Tor the wife or a pint OF
milk fr the baby, it is right there in the BILL Every time you purcba .
pair of overalls to keep the Public Morals Firing Squad from nnning vn,
in with a hurry-wagon for indecent exposure, it is right there in m. him
All over the country from Washington to Wfnnemucca. are bousand o.
office rooms, occupied by hundreds of thousands of useless and law wal
ioperst mat ought to be VI hoeing corn or planting potatoes. OF cutting ice
al craving salares and reaching their hands into the ssOOooo Oo
ak clear VI to the elbows, and doing absolutely nothing to earn n single
IN of it. and each and every mothers OF of them styling himself Of the
office with which he is connected "me government
These barnacles who think they have solved the problem of living with
out work are mailing u hundreds Of tons Of Jun every day Oft their worth
less lives to 10000 newspaper ditors all ove the country. asking that it be
puDhshed fre' nd almost all of it hits the waaebasket a s soon as it ar
rives-from to four times a day, including Sundays. Hundreds Of tons
of it a week, and all absolutely Junk OF the worst nd-much of it mimeo-
graphed and unreadable-and not entitled to one minutes consideration at
the hands of anybody with the common en- If a cove oyster. Millions
OF the eight billions go into that
What is the remedy? There re three that we think of today. and
=" e wl thnk OF son more before press time First, the people must beur
themselves to nominate their " candidates. and by their votes" sit upon
all those who nominate themselves-for any office. The people must elect
a different breed of cats o Congress than the public punderers there now.
Second boycott every article that bears IN exorbitant price tag-just sim
ply go without it, S you ven without -four and sugar during the war.
with payment OF from to twenty dollars for the League to Purchase
Hookworm salve for the Bushwhackers of Bunkyine. hand him a sudden
and vigorous kick.
And in the meantime. do a little less jOy-nding yourself Quit sailing
around in the clouds with a two-bft cigar stuck in ice and a fifteen
cent shine on a SIS pair of shoes.
Howju git that way, anyhow?
Come out of it!