The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-09-19
A QUESTION OF COURAGE

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A QUESTION OF COURAGE
President Harding has asked congress
to enact laws that will protect public in
terests in industrial controversies. Such
legislation has already met with objection
from both labor and capital. A prominent
government official discussing the presi.
dents request doubts that congress has
the courage to comply.
If congress does not have the courage,
it's high time the fact were known. 1t is
true that the national capital is filled with
the Legislative agents" of labor and the
lobbyists of capital, and that these have
tremendous influence with many senators
and representatives 1t is also true that
the injurious effects of strikes and lockouts
in essential production are plainly menac-
ing public interests not represented at
Washington. The duty of congressman is
plain. Have they courage to perofr duty?
The majority of senators and representa-
tives whose terms expire next Marcia, are
candidates to succeed themselves In the
primary campaigns they have taken posi-
tons on prohibition, the bonus, and other
such matters In the election these issues
will be less important as the people are al
ready beginning to feel keenly the influence
of industrial strife, with prospects of pay
ing still bigger price. With the voters
the main question concerning nominees
for reelection will be did he have cour-
age to perform his duty"
Whether or not this congress has cour.
age will be decided by the voters. Some
who represent industrial districts where
sentiment may oppose the proposed legis.
lature may be reelected but even in these
there will be some risk. Those in dis
tricts where voters stand for majority rule
and public welfare, will stand the acid
test. Consequently there is reason to be-
lieve the congress as whole will have
the courage to enact the laws needed.
BRYAN, THE POLITICIAN
William Jennings Bryan is not an in
teresting subject for an editorial, but it il
sometimes difficult to pass even the incon
|sequential. Bryan recently moved tt
Florida because he thought he saw an op
portunity to be elected to the United States
senate from that state. But Florida Demo
Gratis would have none of him and mad,
it as plan to him as they could that if HI
ran he would not be nominated
Bryan's principles and policies, if any
were never the Democratic partys, blu
his own. He made his several campaign
for the presidency on Bryan, not Demo
cratic, platforms. The principles and poll
cies with which his name has been mos
closely linked, those which his party tool
along with him as mere matter of po
litical opportunism, were rejected by thu
people. The income tax, popular election
of United States senators, prohibition ant
woman suffrage, of all the things Bryan
has been for, have been written into Law
that may be regarded as unrepealable
None Of these, however, were Bryan's poll
cies, having been picked up by Bryan onl.
when they appeared to be popular. Bryan
was wet before he became converted tt
prohibition.
If this generation has produced monu
mental political failure, it is Bryan. A.
a moral leader he stands as high as an.
American. But his big fights in polite
have been on political issues, and Away
has he carried them forward in demagogi'
fashion.
'Did Roosevelt cuss?" asks an ex
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