The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-02-07
PIE WEEKLY COURIER.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7,4..........1eO2
Carson Letter.

discussion as to the proper use of the
words ssshall' and twill" Gramma-
rians and. educators pitched into the
dispute with vim. It 10 true that
grammar 1.-THE doctrine of the joining
of words and. sentences) as well as
spelling-the two worst enemies of the
school boy--should in the course of a
reasonable time be practically elini.
mated from the school curriculum. |
mean that by speaking correctly to
children they will learn no other style,
and by spelling words Theoretically,
children will naturally spell correctly.
at least two years of mind-harrowing
school work would thus be saved.
However, grammar is a word that
means more than the scientific con-
struction of sentences; it includes the
use Of proper words in the statement of
facts For instance, we use the words
s'hobo," murderer" anarchist
and many other words, irrespective of
the fact to which We intend them to
apply, and irrespective of the wrong
we infiict, and that is of far greater I'M
portance than the careless use of words
that have almost identical meaning.
To illustrate further, a few days ago
the bodies of two men who had lashed
themselves together on brake beam
were taken off at Reno frozen to death,
and all the accounts read of the fact
referred to them as "hobos" and
''tramps." Very little Christian feel
ing ought to have been sufficient to
have melted the writers to resolve
whether they were ''hobos,n or strug-
Cling laboring men. The thermometer
was below zero; hobos and tramps
would not venture out in such weather,
and they don't need to. If they were
not men fleeing from justice-which
does not appear-it is far more likely
that they were men who had to reach
some place where they could get work
to earn money to support wife and
child, or mother OF. father. No other
kind of people brave such dangers and
endure such suffering. Again, the
newspapers, almost without exception,
call every act of taking human life
murder whether done in self-de
Tense, the preservation of property, or
maintaining the honor and virtue OF
women-it is all the same to the papers
They do not consider what supreme
moment 1t is in the life of an honest
and brave mana man who would rish
hi8 own life at any time to save that o.
another--to be called upon to take
human life; they simply publish and
bTepdd him as 4, mtaKderff5 thf99aa9ghR6pb
the fact or the result. AS to anarchists
why, every one is an anarchist who
opposes government by injunction
while the true and practical anarchist
lie he who by perjury, subornation oil
perjury and bribery escapes the pay
ment of his share towards the support
of government, and helps to pass class
legislation. The red-mouthed, beer.
swilling blatants of the Bowery are not
In 1t with the lobby
Judge Thos. p. Hawley of the U. ).
Circuit Court, is a man now over 70
years of age, but he enjoys clear
mind and robust health. He is a self
made man in everyfsense of the term.
He has learned as he went along, and
obtained his education by contact, ex-
perience and hard work. He works as
hard now as he ever did However,
he il now passed that age where his
political ambitions might blunt his
Judgment He was Republican
during the civil war, and is yet, and
no doubt has taken sides with that
party on the race question in the South,
and upheld it in giving the negro the
ballot He has changed. He now adj
mitG that it was stupendous mistake
and q wrong. He travelled through
the South some months ago, and like
Paul, he saw vision He says the
old negroes, who were raised as slaves,
are gentlemanly people, and have the
manners of their old "Massas,n and
s'Missus.' This is natural; they were
brought up by refined and educated
people, in the main. The children of
these old slaves, are generally fairly
we'll behaved, but their children, says
the Judge, are simply horrid. The
great majority of them just run wild
In the woods. What that means can
well be imagined. How can the South
ern whites handle such condition?
What would Northerners do under the
circumstances? What do they in fact
do when the law fails to protect them?
OF course, oil the sentimental talk In
Congress about Southern whites is
pure hypocrisy, and for political effect,
and political profit. 1t is crime.
A sensational dispatch from Ger
many announces that the United States
has about completed arrangements to
sell the Philippine islands to that coun-
try. The report is too good to be true
-at any price. They are costing us
hundred million dollars year, to say
nothing of the loss of human life We
don't need to say anything about that.
1t seems to be the least of our troubles
at Washington.
The Republican managers have con-
cluded to wipe out the war taxes. A
few months ago they had made up
their mind not to. Their change OF
base ia easily accounted for At that