The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-14
Why We'll Vote
For Republicans
Good Intentions But Poor Results

EOI hOAS ~ haAo
| agriculture is the Democratic party
| entitled to any credit. In some In
| stances by a strict party vote. they
| opposed these measures. The Demo
cratic party is, however, entitled to
credit for a good faith effort to fos-
ter agriculture by the creation OF
| Rural Credit Banks. The fact that
| the scheme is a failure up to date
only affords one more illustration
| that practical constructive legisia-
| ton is seldom achieved except by
| practical and experienced legislators.
| The fact that a man must be able
to pay fifty per cent of the cash value
| of his land, own his equipment, and
! live upon his land, and Is not per-
| mitted to supplement his borrowing
| capacity by q second mortgage, pre-
cludes the possibility of assistance to
any would-be farmer, or actual farm
er who is not able to get assistance
somewhere else. While practical
benefits are at present impossible the
system does afford inviting opportuni-
ties for conspiracies to ecure loans
on worthless lands, and we predict
that sooner or later serious scandals
will result. Let us hope therefore.
that a Republican administration, and
congress-, may be able to revise the
system so as to render 1t helpful to
those who need help, and thus afford
some encouragement to the back to
the farm" movement. Agriculture
should be, and under Republican con-
troll is, fostered in every legitimate
way. Ii does not need to be fathered.
Mining Fostered
The Republican party has fostered
mining by giving presumption rights
in mineral discoveries, granting min
ing claims and by enacting laws re-
curing importers of competing min
erals, either crude or refined, to pay
some portion Of what they receive
into u treasury, thus giving the
American miner a substantial ad-
vantage in the American market.
The Democratic party is entitled
to no credit whatever In this import
ant field. which has added untold
wealth TO our country. and afforded
he basis for many. IL not most of
our other important industries.
Commerce FOstered
The Republican party has fostered
commerce by dredging rivers and
harbors, by turning the revenue cut
ter service, once needed for protec-
ton against smugglers. into a great
patrol system in aid of shipping. II
established the weather bureau, which
gives warning of approaching storms,
and finally the Republican party fos-
tered, not only the OF
America but the commerce of the
world, and to an extent never before
more than dreamed of. by the con-
struction of a great inter-oceanic
canal.
Republicans Not Sectional
The Democratic party is entitled to
no credit for any of these items Of
assistance except that of dredging
harbors and waterways. In this field.
however, as elsewhere, 1t has been
provincial to an extreme. he south,
having absolute control of the Demo-
cratic party, and because of it's want
Of enterprise being unable to contri-
butte very largely to the of
the country, has always sought to
equalize its weakness, which IL as
sumes to be its superiority, by lib
eral local appropriations The Re-
publican party. always national in
vision, has appropriated literally for
improvements at Galveston, protect
ing that great city with a sea wall
more than a hundred feet in width.
f1fty feet high in places and several
miles in length. until that extreme
southern port is second in Importance
to New York. 1t has improved the
harbors of Houston, New Orleans.
Mobile. a half dozen ports on the
Florida coast, Savannah, Charles
ton, Norfolk, and has spent enough
money on the lower stretches. of the
Mississippi river to have builded of
boiler iron a ship canal from st.
Louis to New Orleans. So said the
Honorable w. p. Hepburn on the
noor OF Congress. and his statement
has never been challenged.
With equally lavish hand the Re-
publican party has appropriated for
improvements on the Atlantic, the
Pacific, and the Gulf coasts. Some of
them have been admittedly worthless
and many of them wasteful, but they
were all made in the hope of results.
and the accessibility of harbors along
our entire 500 miles Of continental
coast constitutes complete justiica-
ton of the fostering care that the
Republican party has extended to
commerce.
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