The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-12-13
Carson Letter.


EDITOR COURIER: Theodore Roose-
welt is the President of the United
States.
''Are brains necessary to financial
success2'' asks the San Francisco Bull
letin. No, dear innocent All that Is
necessary to financial success is a tough
conscience, small heart and common
dishonesty. But perhaps Nicolo Mach
iavelli, affectionately nicknamed "Old
Nick" presumably on account of his
strenuous piety, better described WHIT
was necessary to the success of the
(merchant) Prince: ut is necessary in
order to attain wealth and power to
act contrary to faith, contrary to char
ity, contrary to humanity, contrary to
religion. A Prince ought therefore to
have great care that from his mouth
nothing should ever come that is not
filled with those five qualities, and that
TO see and hear him he should appear
all piety, all faith, all integrity, all hu-
mainly, all religion, and nothing is
more necessary than to seem to have
this last mentioned quality. Every
one sees what you seem, few perceive
what you are" just hold that glass
before your financial successes, Mr..
Bulletin man, and see if the coat does
not fit like the paper on the wall.
There are no necessary evils in gov
eminent. It's evils exist only in its
abuses. If ii would confine itself to
equal protection, and, as heaven does
It's rains, shower its favors alike on the
high and the low, the rich and the poor,
1t would be an unqualified blessing -
Andrew Jackson. Hush, Andrew. the
first thing you know you will get Pier
pont Morgan and Mark Hannah down
on you, and they will call you an An
archist, crying against the government
President Roosevelts message is be-
fore Congress and the country. He is
domineered and whipped in by his
party in only two matters, but they are
the greatest before the country high
protective tariff, and the trusts. The
greatest question before the people is
the tariff, and as the Reno journal well
remarks, it is time to take it up in Ne
vada and discuss it. 1t has always
been neglected in this State. But the
question of raising revenues to carry
on government Is always the para
mount national question in every coun-
try. There may come local questions
that overshadow it for the time being,
like the silver question in the silver
producing States, but we would really
be surprised to know how little it agi-
tated the great centers of population
and wealth. Roosevelt's position on
the tariff is exceedingly unsatisfactory
to the majority of the people, and their
only hope is in the fact that he may
yet take the bit by the teeth and reas-
sert his independence (becanse he Is
independent and he wants that fact
known), and cut away from the influ-
ence of the favored few who hold the
party lash, and who have always
helped themselves to the greatest
favors bestowed by the tariff, and asso-
ciate himself with the vast majority of
the party in Congress who have gener-
ally been left out, and who have en-
joyed but precious few plums out of the
Pudding. BY doing so, he would inn
mediately attach to himself nine-tenths
Of the Republican members of Con-
gress, and at least one-third of the
Democratic members-if not the ma
jority of the party--and he could carry
fair tariff reform legislation that would
satisfy the country, and he would plant
himself solid in the Presidential chair
and enthrone his power for continued
power. OF course, it would not do to
srevolutionize the tariff system, but it
should be scaled down gradually, until
the system yields only sufficient to
carry on the government. But the
message does not indicate that he in
tends any such course. On the con-
trary, he advocates as much reciprocity
a. possible "where it can be done with
out injury to our home Industries "
But it is plain to be seen that some in
dustries must concede something The
question will be which? Watch the row
within the party when the decision is
rendered. Watch Senator Flannigan's
visage elongate if the decision should
be that the tariff must be taken off of
wool; then listen to the wall from
Oregon and Ohio. If the tariff is taken
of of iron and steel, you won't need to
put your ear to the ground to hear the
thunder from Pennsylvania; and so on
down the entire list of protected in
fants. This may anger the President.
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