The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-08

into the country where compara-
lively self-sufficient smaller com
munities may blend agricultural and
manufacturing interests in harmoni-
Gus helpfulness and enhance good
fortune. Such movement contem-
plates no destruction Of things
wrought, of investments made, OF
wealth involved. 1t only looks to q
general policy Of transportation, OF
distributed industry, and of highway
construction to encourage the spread
of our population and restore the
proper balance between city and
country. The problem may well
have your earnest attention.
Equality of Opportunity
Through the eradication of illit.
eracy, and the diffusion Of educa-
ton, mankind has reached a stage
where we may fairly say that in the
United States equality Of eppor-
tunity has been attained, though all
are not prepared to embrace it,
There is indeed too great diverg-
ence between the economic condi-
tions of the most and the least IA
yored classes in the community. But
even that divergence has now come
to the point where we bracket the
very poor and the very rich to-
gether as the less fortunate classes.
Our efforts may well be directed to
improving the status of both. .
Right of Labor to Organize
The right of labor to organize is
just as fundamental and necessary
as is the right of capital to organize.
The right of labor to negotiate, to
deal with and solve its particular
problems in an organized way,
through its chosen agents, is just
as essential as is the right Of CAPT
tai to organize, to maintain corpor-
atoms, to limit the liabilities of
stockholders. Just as it is
not desirable that a corporation
shall be allowed to impose undue
exactions upon the public, so it is
not desirable that labor organiza-
ton shall be permitted to exact un-
fair terms of employment or subject
the public to actual distresses in
order to enforce its terms. /.
Homes for Returned Soldiers
After each war, until the last, the
government has been enabled to
give homes for its returned soldiers,
and a large part Of our settlement
and development has attended this
generous provision of land for the
nations defenders.
There Ii yet unreserved approx
mateiy 200,000,000 acres In public
100000 acres Of which
are known to be susceptible Of rec
lamation and made fit homes by pro-
vision for irrigation.
The government has been assist
ing in the development Of its re-
land, until the estimated
increase in land values in the irri-
gated sections is fully $500 900, 900
and the crops of 1920 alone on
these lands are estimated to exceed
500, 900, 900. 4N6
Under the law authorizing these
expenditures for development, the
advances are to be returned, and it
would be good business for the gov
eminent to provide for the reclama-
ton Of the remaining 10000, 900
acres, in addition to expediting the
completion Of projects long under
way.
To End Non-Taxabls Bonds
Many of US belong to that school
Of thought which is hesitant about
altering the fundamental law. /
think our tax problems, the tend
ency Of wealth to seek non-taxable
investment, and the menacing in
crease Of public debt. federal, state
and municipal-all justify q pro-
posal to change the constitution so
n to end the issue of non-taxable
bonds.
World Peace Not Improbable
Agreeable to your expressed de-
dire and in complete accord with the
purposes Of the legislative branch of
The government, there Is In WASH
ington as you happily know, an in
conference now most
earnestly at work on plans for the
limitation of armament, q naval hol-
day, and the just settlement of
problems which might develop into
causes Of international Disagree
ment. 1t is easy to believe a world
hope is centered on this capital city.
A most gratifying world accomplish
ment is not improbable.