The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-03-20
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2o,.............19o3..
Carson Letter.

Yorke, newly appointed Regent OF the
University of California, said, among
other things, in his first address to the
student body: "Mere intellect is the
cheapest thing in the world. You can
buy it on the streets of San Francisco
for drink of whisky" Turning to
the Standard Dictionary of the English
Language find that "intellect' means
'the faculty of perception or thought;
intelligence; mind; sometimes the
higher thinking powers, as distinguish
ed from the senses of memory; supe-
rior intelligence; as, man ofintellect;
intellect distinguishes man from
brutes.o Can such noble attributes in
man be bought on the streets Of San
. Francisco for a drink of whisky? Well,
if it can, how does the Rev. Father
know? AS | ponder in perplexity
over the declaration, | confess that
san at loss to know whether Father
. >yYork was trying to fiatter San Fran
Cisco by giving out the idea that intel
lect was drug on the market in the
Bay City, or whether he was merely
keeping his voice a-going while try
ing to think of something to say. l
cannot believe that he had sold too
much intellect that day, because he is
reputed as sober man; yet the evil
denee offered by his statement is
against him, confess Now, l have
it: He must have been talking about
lawyers. Still, intellect is intellect,
whether distributed in a lawyers
dome of thought or reposing in any
other repository. Oh, see: He must
- have been talking about lawyers in
tellect, as contradistinguished from
other intellect, and for which particu-
lar class of intellect the dictionary has
as yet failed to give any definition.
I wrote the COURIER few weeks
ago to the effect that there was moth
ing wrong in accepting money from
rich men like Rockefeller to build and
maintain universities, on the ground
that the students there learned to de-
spise their benefaetors and the means
they had adopted to get rich. Some of
the newspapers have questioned the
sense of my philosophy. l had the
satisfaction of reading in dispatch
the other day that the students of the
Northern University (Rockefeller's
Kissed the name of John D. Rockefeller
when mentioned in an address. 1t is
certainly legitimate conclusion that
sound education is bound to inspire
feelings of contempt for any man who
makes money by dishonest methods
for any man who would corner the
necessaries of life and hold them Sc
cure, with all the power of a great
government to help him protect his
in-gotten gains-not gains, but booty
when his fellow creatures are starving
and freezing to death, within the smell
of food and sight of coal. On the other
hand, have profound pity, if not a
contempt, for any poor creature so
insanely honest as to keep his hands
off of any ill-gotten swag when suffer
lux lOI lOOu VI WdIIupu.
The big railroad corporations are
just trampling over each other and
tumbling head over heels in their wild
rush to obey the Elkins anti-railroad
law recently enacted by a Republican
Congress. There must be some nice
plums inside of that anti-railroad pud-
ding. The Central Pacific, for instance,
did not rush that way in 1901, when
the Legislature of Nevada created a
Board of Assessors; they rushed the
other way. 1t may be very good
anti-railroad law, or antitrust law, as
claimed by the Republican press and
as claimed by the Administration that
by its enactment the Republican party
has redeemed its pledge to the people;
but why do the big corporations like it
30 much? Don't all speak at once; in
fact it might be better to treat the
matter with profound contempt, and
point with pride to the glorious record
of the Republican party, particularly
during Lineoln's time.
Under our old incorporation law !
the subscribers to stock are RESPONSE !
BILE for the debts of the corporation to
the amount of his unpaid subscription,
and no more. Under the laws of New
Jersey and Arizona particularly, there
is no responsibility. The corporation
can run into debt and the creditor can
whistle for his money The Legis-
iature of Nevada conceived Che idea
that by changing our law SO as to ex-
empt corporations from personal liza
bility for the debts they incur as a
corporate body, about all the corpora
tions dong business in Nevada would
incorporate under the laws of this
State, and that would create business.