The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-11-23
IN THE EYE OF THE CAMERA
By K. ODaker

= The Republican state chairman
OF Texas became highly indignant
about an article that an editor
published about him and went to
the office of the editor and beat him
up numerically, the editor being
quite elderly; but the editors son
had the exquisite pleasure of knock
ing the politician down and then
had him indicted for attempted
murder. We earnestly hope-and
this is Republican editor hoping
that the law handles that bird
roughly-he should be given
term in prison. That is where
roughnecks of his type belong. 1t
is a pity that the editor was too
feeble to give him the proper sort
of manhandling; and more's the
pity that he didn't have a gun with
which to start a private graveyard.
No editor ever told half the truth
about the average carrion that
makes of politics a business.
A prominent college professor has
written a four column article on
us the Allied debt just debt?"
1t is our guess that if the professor
tries to borrow any money from his
friends he will have hard time
getting it if he is going to raise a
question later as to whether it is
just debt.
During the recent campaign the
Democratic campaign leaders made
the charge that the proposed ship
subsidy bill will cost the treasury
76,000,00 a year. Near the close
of the campaign, the Omaha World
Herald, owned by Senator Hitch
cock, Democrat. added a cipher to
the amount, making it $75O,00O,-
600. What is a cipher more or
less to Democrat in a campaign.
But the Hitchcock paper evidently
did not fool the people of Ne
braska, for they decided to let
someone else represent them in
Hitchcocks place.
1t is said that the man, Cox, who
thought he was running for presi-
dent a few short months agone,
while over in Paris, recently, spent
a part Of his evenings sounding the
natives relative to their views on
the League of Nations. The man
must have a head Of solid concrete.
1t was thought that he got about
all that it was worth while for him
to know about that matter, direct
from headquarters, here at home.
He seems worse than densel I'm
agine, II you can, that cuckoo serv-
ing as president.
In an address, recently in New
York, Julius H. Barnes, President
Of the United States Chamber Of
Commerce, formerly head of the
United States Grain Corporation,
grain exporter of 80 years. exper-
.ence, said farmers would lose about
100000 this year because of
their inability to move wheat
promptly to the seaboard, and ad-
ded, "This is due to an over-rigid
policy of regulation of our rail-
roads in the last ten years. The
earning power of our railroads has
been destroyed, and their credit
undermined SO that they cannot
maintain their equipment, and keep
t up to the expansion of this coun-
try. Railroads cannot be left with
out some kind of regulations, but
an adequate return must be allowed
them to enable them to expand their
facilities"
The Union Pacific is about to
spend 100000 in the develop
ment of the industrial and scenic re-
sources of southwestern Utah. I'm
der private management, the money
will be spent with the sole object in
view of making the railroads earn
more money. The effect will be to
open up an interesting scenic
region in such a way as to attract
tourists. Under government manage
ment, the selection of a. place fol
expenditure of $5,00O,000 would b.,
determined largely by politics. I'm.
der private management the CHIEF
question is twill it pay" Undel
government management the de
termining factor would probably
be the amount of pressure that
could be brought to bear in be-
half Of one project or another
Under private management, the
question is decided solely on bust
ness principles, as IL should be.
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