The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-06-14
SAYS REPUBLICAN
VICTORY CERTAIN
By VIM. E. MOORE


the business entirely before the next
presidential election, it is reported
that a number of sheep men are cut
ting down the size of their flocks
and expect to dispose of their en-
tire holdings as soon as next years
lambs attain shipping size.
These preparations are being
made because of the fear of a
possible victory for the Democrats
in the next election; fear induced
by belief that seems to be prev
alent in the west that the Demo-
cratic party will be able to induce
dissatisfied elements, classes and
organizations to join its ranks in
sufficient numbers to elect a Demo-
cratic candidate.
The sheep man has been hit
harder and oftener by adverse con-
ditions, reduced prices for wool and
mutton, interest charges on loans,
high costs for feed and high wages,
than almost any other class in Ne
vada. Except only for the timely
Of the War Fiance Cor
poration and its subsidiary loan
companies the sheepmcn in Nevada
would have long ago been bankrupt.
The present prices received for
wool and mutton, made possible
only by protective tariff, have en-
abled the sheep man to pay off
portion of his debts, but it will re-
quire two or three more years of
reasonably good prices to enable
him to pull out of the hole entirely
aud commence to make profit.
With the present scale of wages,
100000 month for sheep herders,
md the high cost of grain for
feed, the margin between cost of
production and the selling price of
wool is not sufficient to allow him
20 do this in one season.
Depending for existence upon
cattle and sheep raising it
seems somewhat Of a paradox that
any citizen Of Nevada should cast
a Democratic vote when the Demo
ratio party is and always has been
n favor of free trade-the unloos-
ing upon the cattle and sheep raiser
If an unlimited flood of beef, NUT
ION and wool from Australia and
South America, both of which coun-
tries have an abundant supply of
cheap labor and cheaper land. No
branch of the mining industry in
Nevada can shoulder a burden of
The duty-fee importation of metals
md show a profit.
That the sheep man, in making
to get out of the bust
less before the next election, is too
simid or too quick to jump at con-
illusions is indicated by conditions,
10th business and political, in that
part Of the United States lying east
Of the Missouri River, the states
that are thickly populated and there
fore cast the bulk of votes in the
electoral college.
These states, deriving their rev.
enue from diversified manufacturing
are enjoying a condi-
ion of prosperity that equals, and
n many localities, exceeds their
pest records of wartime prosperity.
Thousands of working men and wo-
men are buying homes and furnish
ng them with the things that make
life enjoyable, and they are able to
10 this because of just one element
"a protective tariff on the articles
which their labor is creating.
These workers are satisfied with
the conditions they are enjoying
today and intend to continue enjoy
ing them. The men whose money
is invested in these factories and
manufacturing plants realize what
has caused this prosperity and they,
as well as the workers, are going
to be difficult subjects to convert
to the principle or policy of free
and unlimited importation of manu-
featured goods. In fact, the manu-
facturer in the east fears nothing
today quite as much as he does a
food of cheap, foreign-made arti-
cles to compete in the open market
with the products Of his factory.
His workers share this fear with
him, as cheap competition and glutted
markets mean a slim pay enve-
Iope and the consequent loss of the
comforts and Injuries with which he
has surrounded himself and his
family.
The Republican party, during the
present administration, has brought
business back to a nearly normal
basis. True, some prices and wages
are higher than pre-war levels, but
the standard of living in America
has been raised and will never be
allowed to return to the old levels.
Factories are running on full time,
business is amply financed and oper
ating on a sound basis; over ex-
pansion and initiation have been
guarded against; a labor shortage
is an actual reality today in the
eastern manufacturing centers and
on the farms of the middle west.
The wheat fields of the northwest
will soon be clamoring for help in
harvesting a bumper crop. During
the month of May the newspapers
of Detroit carried classified adver-
tisements offering 60 cents an hour
for common laborers. At the same
time advertisers in the Chicago pa
pers were offering 80 cents an hour
for the same class of workmen.
All of this makes for a contented
frame of mind in all classes-la-
borers, skilled workers, professional
and business men-and provides
poor prospects for recruits to the
l. w. w. or Communist banners.
The voters of the United States,
both men and women, realize that