The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-28

| ASeoh PAiSc VI 1OOu, according TO
the bureau of labor statistics. There
seems to be some hard shedding
ahead, ere we get back to normally;
and most of US have abandoned
hope of ever arriving at that de-
lightful stage until after we have
paid the fiddlers for that miserable
dancing we engaged in for about
three years. We had a hilarious
frolic and now we may as we'll get
it into our heads that we must pay
for that sorry fun.
A Maryland congressman has in
troduced a bill which provides for
the payment of soldiers bonus by
levying tax on 2.75 per cent beer
and cider. Light wine appears to
have been lost in the shuttle and in
its stead cider raises its head.
Hard liquor" devotees surely will
raise on their hind legs and chortle
with glee, inasmuch as 2.75 per
cent cider will be sufficiently "hard''
to satisfy any man who appreciates
the virtues abiding in pitcher of
water, "in the cold, gray dawn, Of
the morning after"
The National Association Opposed
to Prohibition held meeting in St.
Louis this week and predictions
were made by those in attendance
that the principal issue of the 1924
presidential campaign will be the
liquor question. The anti-prohibi-
tionists take themselves too blamed
seriously. They are in a comatose
condition and do not seem to know
it. They are just approaching the
stage when they will be able to sit
up and take nourishment. II pro-
hibition is going to prove a COM
plete farce it is going to take some
little time to convince all of us, be-
yond reasonable doubt, and until
we are fully convinced it will be
well for John B. Corn and his SYM
,athisers to hold in subsection any
tendency to get cocky unless they
want to get their blocks knocked en-
.irely off their necks. The thing
for them to do is to be discreet
md avoid any disposition to be in
'olent. As things now trend the
oootleggers are working in hearty
cooperation with the prohibitionists
% make prohibition intolerable and
things will not long be permitted
20 continue as they are.
Down in Brazil they are making
Use of acohol as fuel for motor
airs. As soon as this becomes
generally known here in the United
States there will be an exodus Of
iivver drivers, all headed straight
'or Brazil, and when they arrive
he Brazilians will be taught the
proper use Of alcohol, by skilled
demonstrators, in a most thoroughly
PRACTICAL way.
In the interior Of Argentine cat
lie are said to be so plentiful that
hey sell for less than two cents
'er pound and sometimes the owner
will give COW to one to butcher on
condition that the hide be returned
o the owner. That is nothing!
There was a time, right here in Ne
ada, and it is not SO remote that
has passed from the memory of
nan, that a liberal rustler would
i've to a buckaroo one-half of all
he mavericks that were rounded up.
And there was no captious criticism
of the methods involved either.
The Times says, in a recent is
sue, "Tonopah people eat Turk in
Los Angeles" The miserable can
nibals! Yet, we occasionally re-
fer to the citizens of Turkey as,
"The unspeakable Turk"
From Dublin comes word that
because her sister is confined in
prison Miss Annie MacSwiney has
gone on a hunger strike. Mayb,
Annie does not know that if sh
fails to take nourishment she vii
die. It doesn't seem possible, j
these days of higher civilizatio
that one could be so dense, does it
There was no little wailing in tn,
harem when the sultan Of Turke.
fed from his domains without paus-
ing to say goodbye to his wives
and the youngest one, to whom he
had only been married three weeks,
was quite hysterical. "Three
Weeks, "-seems like we have read
something about that length of
time, once before.
The fact-fnding commission pro-
vided- for in the coal industry ought
to point the way for the avoidance
Of future strikes in the mines. Now
It is incumbent upon us to find a
means for similar legislation with