The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-03-23
DIScLAIMS
TROUBLE
lElko independently

10 (Elko independently
The Ely Times prints the follow
ing:
Attorney Anthony Zurich re-
turned from Elko, after spending
several days there on legal business.
Mr.. ZURICH says that the town of
Elko is very much disturbed as a
result of fractional differences, and
that much bitter feeling has been
engendered as a result. A grand
jury has been called which added
fuel to the flames. Mr.. Zurich, be-
ing an outsider, believes he can
view the affair in an impartial light,
and states that he can see no oc-
casion for the animosity that is be-
ing manifested by both sides. He
terms it as a most unfortunate state
of affairs, and says that other small
towns might well profit by Elko's
bitter experience.
presentation of both sides of a
question in case of difference of
opinion is constructive and also
beneficial, but when disaffection is
linked with enmity and hatred it is
the most dangerous situation with
which any small community can be
confronted"
The editor of the Times in attach
ing his comment to the situation as
Mr.. Zurich thought he understood it
here, has emphasized the attitude of
an easy going portion of the public
who would condone all wrongs and
lawbreaking because it requires too
much trouble to raise the banner of
the right. Mr.. Zurich, who appeared
here for the purpose of arguing
leniency in the sentence pronounced
against a man who pleaded guilty to
violation of the law, is evidently a
believer also in the way of least re-
sistance in maintaining a proper
standard of citizenship in a COM
munity. Perhaps this attitude is in
the majority in the vicinity of the
White Pine capital. At any rate
perhaps it accounts for the assertion
made with regularly recurring fire.
quency that the sheriff of the
county of White Pine was one of
the subjects of Billy Woodburn's
remarks before the Reno Lions
Club when the federal prosecutor
said sheriff Of one Of the Nevada
counties owned the only still in the
county and dispensed it's products
to the entire and official exclusion
of all competitors. Of course a
passive acceptance of the sheriff's
right so to do-and the concurring
in such lawlessness if it exists
would do away with the necessity
for any luminosity" but if there are
any standard citizens in the county
of White Pine who understand such
situation to exist it is a matter of
surprise to the "outsider who can
view matters III an impartial light"
how the situation can be viewed
without animsity toward persons who
will not only condone, but defend
such actions.
There is no fractional fight here
and no animosity-among those
who are taking the side of the right.
There need be no fractional fight if
those who are wrong will recognize
the right and mend their ways.
There are no "sides" because there
can be no other side of question of
right. The people of this city and
county have simply risen up against
the wholesale violation of law as it
has been going on here for three
years and when the people finish
their work everything will be calm
and serene and clean = again.
Other small towns might we'll profit
not by Elko's experience as Mr..
Zurich pompously asserts but by
Elko's example. He has garbled
his conclusions-because his view
point is warped.