The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-04-25
Carson Letter.

EDITOR COURIER: | understand thai
Philip McGrath is to succeed r. j.
Laws as Superintendent of the Carson
q Colorado Railroad. Mr. McGrath Ii
Comstock raised boy, and began his
railroad career as mail clerk, and his
promotion from one position to another
has been gradual and steady. A man
can get no greater recommendation
than to be tried in all the positions
from the lowest to the highest and fill
them all; nor can management de-
serve greater praise for anything than
to keep their deserving employees go
ing from bottom to top. It must create
a splendid feeling between employers
and employees, and greatly advance
the service. Under the exacting duties
and severe responsibilities of railroad
work, it is pleasant to note that we
ind but few who have dumped from
the gutter to the caves" as my friend,
Tom DAILY, once said of a successful
candidate for Office. Most of the ablest
of them began their climb on the lowest
rung of the ladder, and they pulled up
dead weight all the way.
Chas. M. Schwab, President of the
United States Steel Company, with a
salary of one million dollars year,
complains bitterly of the tyranny OF
trades unions. He says Germany ia
not paralyzed, as England is, by such
tyranny. True, too true. 1t is the
German workman that is paralyzed.
He dares not even make faces at the
Kaiser; he has got to take his soup,
Just as it comes. Incidentally, Mr..
Schwab said his corporation is more
powerful than any monarch that ever
reigned; that it employs 100000 per-
sons, and that between 5,000,0 900 and
5000, 900 human beings are directly de-
pendent upon these, and indirectly not
less than 10000 But for trade
unions Mr.. Schwab and his associates
might be able to get along very well
in the world, but owing to their OPP
pressive tyranny, he has to do the best
he can and struggle against them on a
bare million dollars year.
Jessica Peixoto, Jewess, recently
lecturing at Temple Emanuel, in San
Francisco, showed little more milk OF
human kindness than Mr.. Schwab.
She claims that we should have string
emit immigration laws, and keep out
the undeserving of all nations, and not
force our work people into severe COM
petition with any class; that 1t should
be our constant care to ennoble and
educate all classes of people in this
country, and thus make it better
country than any other on the globe.
There is no doubt in my mind that
the constant widening of the distance
between the arrogant rich and ordinary
working people is one of the greatest
dangers of the Republic. When man
is CALLED, sore, weary and half mired
under his burden, he cannot look COM
placently upon those who have never
packed load or pulled in the traces,
and never needed to. His lament
smites heaven in the face, and he re-
ceives no answer; his curse goes down
deep in holland then there is an ex-
plosion.
King Edward receives an average OF
1000 letters daily, and the Pope from
$4,000 to $4,000, and employs So secre-
taries to attend to that branch of his
affairs. Who doubts the temporal
power of the Pope?
Cecil Rhodes will provides, among
other things, for two scholarships in
every State and Territory in the United
States, and in the election of students
he suggests that regard should be had
to, first, his literary and scholastic at
tainments; second, his fondness for or
success in manly outdoor sports, such
IS cricket, football and the like; third,
his qualities of manhood, such as truth,
courage, devotion to duty, sympathy
for and protection of the weak, kindli-
ness, unselfishness, and fellowship;
fourth, his exhibition during school
days of moral force of character and
Instinct to lead and take interest In his
schoolmates. Now, boys, take a good
look at yourselves, inside and out, and
see how you fit that coat, and you may
set one Of the scholarships. Stor
twisting cats tails, don't tantalize your
little brother, don't "fndge" playing
marbles, stop playing ''hookie," take
the blame for your own wrongs anc
don't say the other fellow did it
'sknuckle down" tight--in short, dom
be boys. But what would have becom.