The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-02-14
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
Carson Letter.

IN 1854, ne was Dacked by bne CONNER
cial interests, and James G.. Blaine wat
backed by the manufacturers, and of
fee holders. Both of the great polit
icalsparties were s'sound'' on the silver
question. True, they accused each
other of hypocrisy in the matter, bua
both claimed to be the ''Simon pure
party on that question, and the people
having confidence in the party plat
forms, which Wed with each other in
their protestations of love and affection
for the white metal, and would never
leave it until death did them part,
eliminated the question as an issue in
the campaign, and left nothing but the
tariff question to divide upon, practic-
ally. The bloody shirt was waived in
few localities, but it really cut no ice
In the result. Both parties were we'll
provided with funds, and the result of
the election must be accepted by the
historian as fair test of the mind of
the people on the high protective tariff
question. The shibboleth of the Dem
ocratic party in that campaign was a
tariff sufficient to defray the expenses
of government economically admins
tereo. and the Republicans cried out
ssprotection fo,' American labor" BY
this they meant tariff sufficiently
high 20 enable the manufacturers to
pay the rate of wages paid to American
workingmen, to keep them from COM
petition with the degraded pauper labor
of Europe Cleveland was elected, but
be could do nothing against Republic
can Congress. Then Harrison was
elected over Cleveland in 1888, and
during his administration the Mckinley
hiehsprotectiye tariff act was passed,
and 1t was the highest in the history OF
She country. The same question came
up In 1892 and Cleveland was reelected,
and during that administration the
tariff was revised, and silver was de-
monetized, and four yeafs of unsettled
conditions brought stagnation. The
manufacturers shut up shop, claiming
there was nothing in it with tariff for
revenue only, and they cleaned out
their stock, and made conditions as
hard as they could AS soon as Nc
Kinley was elected in 1895, the Dingley
tariff act was passed. The Republicans
promised the country that they would
open the mills If Mckinley was elected.
They could we'll afford to make the
promise, because they were out OF
goods. However, the party had felt
the pulse of the country on the ques-
tion, and they saw thata tariff for rev
enue only was popular. Equal at all
times to every question, the grand old
party fitted itself to the condition.
they raised the expenses to fit the rev
enues. The cry of protection to Amer
lean labor has always been more or less
effective, but it is now about played
out. 1t Is noticeable that 1--WE hear
nothing of it during the discussions on
the pending exclusion bill. The fact
is that those who have howled the
loudest about protection to American
labor in the past are now the most
strenuous in their opposition to the
bill.
There Is a constant, ceaseless change
going on in all things. Indignation
and disinregration of matter is proceed
ing as steadily as the breath going in
and coming out of q man. The cooling
process of the earth is squeezing noun
tains up, and the frosts and the heat
and elements are leveling them down,
and depositing their sediments else
where The spectacle is unvarying in
all things. It is so with life, and civil
izations. Nations and civilizations
have their life and changes, rise and
fall. Time was when "belted barons
held their sway" and 1t will come
again. 1t is now upon us. The forma.
ton of giant trusts and pooling of 81
gantic interests, with the common
people as their common prey, are mon,
strous causes that must result in ter
rifle effect. AS soon as they have de
voured the people they must turn or
each other. Their interests will clasf
sooner or later, and then they will sally
forth from their castles with their ret
innes and servants, as did the ancient
barons, and we will see the Highlands
and the Lowlands, and the.Cameroni
and the Canpbells (Morgans, Hills ant
Harrimans) in battle array. They con
troll government now, and something
like peace reigns among them, but i
cannot last.
Does the world need great ''Cap
tains of Industry" like Carnegie, Pier
pont Morgan, James J. Hill, John ID
Rockefeller, and Others? Moses wa
such leader. He led the children o
Israel ont of the wilderness Woul'
they have ever got out If Moses ha'
never lived? do not believe they ar