The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-10-19
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
Carson Letter.


risy and cant are its principal weapons.
Mark Hanna holds up both hands in
holy horror, and exclaims "woe to the
man who would incite strife between
the classes, or attempt to make polit-
ical capital out oftheunfortunate strike
of the miners in the anthracite re-
gions." Now, this sounds well, but it
is fraudulent. believe it was Scion,
one of the wise men of Greece, and the
wisest of them all, who said, Il am
sorry you did it; l am not sorry I said
you did it, Bryan says the strike has
occurred, and he charges that the policy
of the Republican party in passing
class legislation is the cause of it, and
whilst he is sorry that the strike has
occurred, why should he be sorry for
charging the vile policy of the Repnb-
Hcan party as being the cause of the
strike?
Mr.. Roosevelt says that the bill
creating an army of 100000 in the
United States was introduced by SEN
ator Cockrell of Missouri, and it was
passed by Democrats. This is another
fraud Four months before war was
declared in the Philippines, the Re-
publican party had bill making
standing and permanent army in the
United States of 100, 600 men. Senator
Cockrell amended this bill by making
a temporary army of 100, 900 men, and
this bill was supported by Democrats,
Populists and Silver Republicans, and
with the assistance of few anti-im-
perialist Republicans it was passed
to the great chagrin of the Military
party.
The Republican papers generally
charge that Mr.. Bryan helped Mr..
Mckinley in ratifying the treaty with
Spain, and that the treaty would not
have been ratified without Mr.. Bryan's
help. This is another lie with the face
of truth upon it. Bryan interviewed
his friends in the Senate, and got them
to vote for the ratification of the treaty,
but with resolution to the effect that
the PHILIPPINES should be given their
independence the same as the Cubans.
The Republicans ratified the treaty,
but defeated the resolution, and that
is all Bryan is kicking about, and that
is all the anti-imperialists are COM
planning of.
Tho papuhlioan nraca cbaroa that
Croker, James K. Jones, and other
prominent Democrats are concerned in
trusts, and they are keeping the ice
trust particularly into view. 1t has
been shown by Mr.. Bryan that every
director of the Tamanny Ice Com
pany or trust is Republican. On his
part, Mr.. James K. Jones, Chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
charges that Governor Roosevelt told
an untruth when he said that the
American Cotton Bale Company was a
trust, Mr.. Jones having some connec-
ton with that Company. The truth is
that the American Cotton Bale Co. is
in open competition with other cor
porations and individuals. But sup
posing that some of Mr.. Bryan's sup
porters hold stock in trust corporations,
Can they not honestly support Mr..
Bryan just the same? Charles ID. Lane,
who had no interest in silver mines
whatever, and who was deeply inter-
ested in gold mines, contributed $780,
900 in 1896 towards the success of Mr..
Bryan and 16 to l, and why cannot Mr..
Croker, who is interested in trusts
contribute towards the regulation of
trusts?
Mr.. Bryan is next charged with
favoring selfgovernmentf for the Phili-
pinos, whilst his party opposes self
government for the negroes in the
South. This is the Grandfather Clause,
which l have explained in a former
letter. But there is nothing to show
that Mr.. Bryan is at all opposed to the
granting of the elective franchise to all
who are qualified to use it, consistent
with the welfare and well-being of
mankind.
Mr.. Bryan is next charged with in
dulging in meaningless platitudes, and
lodging the issues of the day. Iquote
the following specimen argument
from one of Roosevelt's speeches:
ooh, men of Kentucky, Oh, men of
that State that sent SO many tens of
thousands of her sons to wear the blue;
so many tens of thousands to wear the
gray in the times that tried mems souls,
to you, the people, Of Kentucky, who have
never finched, to you who have made
the name of your great and beautiful
State synonym for courage and resolu-
ton; / appeal to the young men in the
name of those who wore the blue and
gray, in the name of the great deeds done
by the generation that in the time of its
manhood fought to finish the great
Civil war-that war that left us a re-
united Nation, that left our flag without
q stain--I appeal to you, sons of Confed-