The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-09-14
We TE IRAN RAILWAY
MAN CLEAR-EYED
Man Who Has Run Trains In All
Parts of Country, Says There
Will Be No General Strike.
Hard Times in Canada

A veteran railroad conductor,
Thos. L. Moore, a member of the
o. R. c., was here today on his
way to Sparks, where he hopes to
land a job.
To Silver State man Moore said
that he has been out of employment
since last October and during the
interim has toured the country from
Canada to Mexico, from New York
to California, securing just enough
work to "get by" but notwith-
standing the fact that he is "up
against is," for the time being, he
is not disposed to attribute his
present stress to circumstances over
which he had no control, nor is he
damning the government because
of his hard times.
He dispassionately admits that
the strait he now finds himself in
is due to naught more than his own
lack of prudence in outstanding his
resources when things were going
right. He is one of that vast army
of good fellows who are so temper
amentally constituted that their
purse-strings are never drawn taut
and, as an attending consequence,
they are ever ready to respond to
distress and, almost invariably,
"give till it hurts"
Asked his opinion of the present
administration, compared with the
Wilson regime, Moore expressively,
albeit contemptususly, snapped his
fingers and said, "There is no ap-
preciable difference discernible. Un-
der Wilson we had imitation, carried
to the extreme, as result OF
floating a large quantity of bonds
which must be cancelled in the
course of time. For four or five
years we had a devil of a time liv.
ing on borrowed money and we are
now paying the bills. AS natural
result we find times hard, as it is
always hard to pay for a deaC
horse. Every man who has evel
bought sow-belly and corn-mea
with which to feed his family, OF
credit knows that when time
comes for him to pay up he alway.
wonders how the devil his family
was able to eat so much. Paying
bills just naturally tends to make
the gorge of the average man rise
to the point of suffocation almost
and, say what you will, the average
man is disposed to feel that wher
he cancels monetary obligation HI
has conferred most gracious favor
upon his creditors. When you paus.
to reflect that this nation of our,
is made up of just average citizens
it is easy to understand why ther,
are SO many disgruntled people to
day engaged in yapping about hare
times. The darned fools, if the!
are having "hard times" made tn,
times themselves and instead O.
trying to cowardly shift response
bility onto the shoulders o.
Harding, Hetty Green or FATTY
Arbuckle, ought to act the part O.
he-men, even though it be neces
sary to feign it, and confess thei
own culpability.
"The sooner men get down t,
brass tacks and learn that ever.
tub must rest on its own bottom
the better off will they be. No
only will they be happier but thos,
around them will be made happier
There is nothing to this thing O.
cussin' the government and blaming
it with your individual headaches
Most of US have been on a ram
bunctious spree. We have spent t,
much time in the red light district
had our vision materially weakene,
by the harsh glare of the brigh
lights, and we are now too prone t,
feel sorry for our fool selves. Tha
which we deserve we are now get
ting. We courted it, bought ii
and it is now being delivered.
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