The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-03

j.. The coal operators say That the
public will have to pay the cost of
the coal miners strike. AS this is
the customary rule attending, and
following, all strikes, it will not
be the least bit unusual.
This may be hard winter but We
ought to be able to derive some
consolation from the thought that
the iceman has got to take his
rough hands out of our pockets for
awhile.
Says the Detroit Free Press: In
a message to a senatorial candidate
/ in this state, Senator La Toilette
tells what he would do if he lived
in Michigan. One of the things he
would do would be not to draw a
senator's salary.
There Is something wrong when
it is possible for one man, with no
greater brain or physical power
than that possessed by Henry Ford,
to earn CD $5s,OO0,OOO in a year,
when the average man. works life
time and dies worth less than a
hundred-thousandth part of that
studendous sum. There will come
a time when there will revert, d.
rectly to the government, all man
or company earns in excess of a
specific maximum; and he will thus
be shorn of the incentive to ex-
plot his fellowmen by demanding
unreasonable profits on anything
he may have to sell.
There are 1870 known species of
bats, besides those with which many
of US were on familiar terms in the
days of our compadre, John Barley
corn.
| A New Jersey man advertises his
abject hopelessness thuswise: Com
bination baby buggy and cradle
cheap, as l am going out of bust
ness"
We have just learned, to our
surprise, that the life of an oyster
is ten years. Why ghouls are per-
mitted to resurrect decrepit old
oysters that have passed to their
long rest, at the close of de-
PRAYED life, and serve them as
fresh 'stewed, is question we
should like the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
answer for the benefit of animals
akin to US.
"Hold Joint Meeting" was a news
paper caption that made our eyes
glisten and mouth water, but we
slumped back, into the slough of
despond, on further reading that
it was a joint meeting of Chris
tan Endeavor societies. Isn't it
the truth?-Anticipation always af-
fords greater pleasure than realiza-
ton.
Just to show that this column is
not controlled by the Ku Klux Khan,
nor the Volstead act, we quote from
the twenty-fourth chapter of Mat
thew: "The Jew, the greatest and
only unchangable race that will be
on earth when Christ comes" II
there is anything else around Win
nemucca, but Gentiles and prohi-
bitionists, this should serve as means
of entry to circles we crave.
Shoe merchants say women's feet
are getting smaller, year by year.
This is not mite consoling, though,
to the poor tripe who knows that
price is not governed by size.
Sometime ago Thomas Edison
said that some day gold will be as
cheap as pig iron, as result of
the extraction of gold from lead.
And, do you know we have spent
some restless nights bordering over
that matter? Suppose, for instance
a five-dollar gold certificate that
we have managed to save by rigid
economy should be subjected to re-
demption with gold of pig iron
standard value, can't you under
stand that that would be calami-
tous to US. Why, man, it would
throw us into brankruptcy-bust
us wide open! We sure are panicky
as the devil.
Just as we were convalescing and
about able to sit up and take
nourishment after a nervous COL
lapse, attributed to our having read
that the world is coming to an end
in fifteen million years, along came
busybody with the news that the
moon is going to collide with the
earth in 1921 and shatter all home
brew. Naturally, the shock gave
US a "backset."