The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-01-04

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will be watched with keenest in
terest is development of the spend
thrift and economy cries heard
throughout the recent campaign.
with party leaders on both the
Democratic and Republican sides
taking part. The Republicans cried
spendthrifts at the Democrats, and
the Democrats promptly passed the
buck to the Republican legislature,
saying that the Republican law
makers were in fact the spendthrifts
During 1921 Nevadans were
treated to a taxation reduction of
something like seventeen per cent,
due to the efforts of the Republi-
can legislature. This the Demo-
Gratis say themselves, so it must be
true. But because the taxes were
not collected is no sign that they
were not spent. Campaigning the
state is mighty expensive business
So it may be that those grand little
politicians alibis, deficiency bills,
will make their appearance at the
coming sessions. deficiency bills"
mean bills contracted by state Off
eials after their budget allowances
have been exhausted, and they are
rushed to legislatures with requests
that they be passed Immediately,
for the reason that someone is en-
titled to and waiting for the money.
They are generally accompanied by
an explanation that mourning the
debt in the states name was un-
avoidable, and the excuses are gen.
orally made at least possibly plausi-
Bile, whether based upon fact or
not.
Taxation has become the bane of
existence and hits all because all
must pay, whether directly or in
directly-whether the house we live
in is owned or rented, the owner
and renter alike must pay the tax
bill, and it's generally passed on to
the renter. Taxation !. is throttling
business, and when business is
throttled the men employed on
wages must likewise be throttled.
Taxation is always created by spend
thrift politicians who care not for
the neck of the other fellow.
| So it is up to the Republican
Legislature. If deficiency bills ap-
pear they should be refused pass
age, except in those instances where
the proof is positive that the ex-
penditure was imperative. Let the
office-holder pay the deficiency he
has created out of the funds ap-
propriated for his use during the
ensuing two years. He can do it if
he will work a little himself and
retrench as the business man must,
or the laboring man, after he has
foolishly thrown his money away
and the possibility of obtaining
more is slim. If this should be
done, deficiency bills in future would
be nil, for the average office-holder
likes work about as well as the
baby likes castor oil.
There are many other ways the
Republican legislators can pass
economy right up to the office
holders, and if they don't do it the
prospect of another Republican leg
islature will be about as remote as
the possibilities that the Democrats
will really help in the retrenchment
policy.
"Now that you are going to
publish weekly paper why don't you
change your policy and issue a
straight paper with nothing in it
but local news?" asked friend of
the editor the other day. "You
don't have to go into international
subjects upon which opinion is
divided and thus incur some readers
displeasure who do not agree with
you. nor you don't have to try to
reform the people. The prohibition
law is one that will gain you enc
MES if you discuss it at all, re-
,ardless of which side you take.
The prohibition law is not fair and
people don't like it, for the reason
hat every rich mans cellar is full
of booze, while we poor chumps
have to take a chance on moon
| shine"
Our friends advice was given in
| good faith. He thinks that if a
newspaper avoids all chance of in
curing someone's displeasure that
the editor is bound to become more
prosperous, and in his expression
he was but wishing such prosperity
for the editor. But he is all wrong.
Whether he knows it or not, he has
permitted himself to be led in his
thinking by propagandists who have
an ak to grind.
Whether people have any par
ticular love for newspaper the
policy of which they disagree with
makes no difference-the fact is
that they so thoroughly detest a
newspaper with no policy, or one
that is spineless. or one that merely
makes bluff at saying something
once in awhile. that the editor who