The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-12-18
Carson Letter
ED. COURIER:


Williams Jennings Bryan is an
honest, sincere, able Christian gentle
man, and his integrity has never been
questioned by his bitterest opponents.
But his name looks to Republicans like
a red rag to bull. can account for
ii only upon the ground that honest,
sincere, able, Christian gentlemen are
as inviting to Republicans as red rags
to bulls.
The report, which originated with
the Tonopah papers, and which re-
ceived wide circulation, to the effect,
that a committee from a labor union
of that town, led by its President, had
in the middle of the night marched
upon Chinatown, and beaten its in
habitants over the head with revolvers,
robbed them, and sent them out to
perish upon the desert, where an aged
Chinaman was actually found beaten
to death, proves to have been greatly
exaggerated probably caused by the
the union, and love of Chinese. 1t
turns out, that in order to clear them
selves of the imputation, the men got
themselves indicted and tried, and
after a very thorough, fair and inn
partial trial lasting over week, the
Jury found that the Chinese enticed
these men down to Chinatown, and
when they got them into their dens,
they firmly inserted their shirt collars
in their left hands, and placing re-
volver in their right, they butted their
heads up against them trying to break
their weapons. One old Chinaman,
more vicious and insistent than the
others, actually died from the effects
of his exertion. The proofs being so
clear, the jury promptly returned a
verdict in accordance with the facts.
The State Examiner for the State
Board of Revenue ran up against
rather hard proposition on his trip to
Storey in his interview with the Board
of County Commissioners of that
county. Sheriff Quirk, who is the As
SCISSOR, showed that all property in
Storey County, except railroad prop
erty, is already assessed at over twice
its value and not enough revenue can
be raised at that, and if the rate is to
be reduced according to the require
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BILE to run the county government.
The State Examiner sympathized very
deeply, but offered no further comfort
than the statement that in Elko county
property is not assessed at over one
sixth its value, and therefore the law
ought to be upheld, until all property
is assessed at its true cash value. 1t is
to be hoped that he included railroad
property in his statement. However,
the printed reports don't show that
any one but the Sheriff used the word
railroad in the conversation. On the
question of assessing and valuing rail
road property, the State Examiner
appears to be digesting a tremendous
chunk of silence-and so are a great
many newspapers-th watchdogs over
the peoples rights and interests.
Writing about Law and Reasonable
ness, a late author says: MAY we rise
to the lofty conception of the law of
nature-harmony, simplicity, uniform
ity-and may we call to our aid her
precepts of universal reason; and, ex-
tending our vision to law as the order
of the universe, may we draw inspi-
ration from Hooker's sublime words:
Her seat is the bosom of God, her
voice the harmony of the world, all
things in heaven and earth do her
homage, the very least as feeling her
care, and the greatest as not exempt
from her power.'" What an infamous
shame it is that such beautiful senti-
ments should be falsel The truth is
that the poor and the weak hardly feel
the care of the law, and the powerful
entertain an utter contempt of it's pow
er-being more powerful But what
lovely world would this be, if it were
true that the least felt the care of the
law, and the greatest were not ex-
empted from its powerl Again, what
harmony, simplicity or uniformity is
there about the law? 1t is very much
like the Frenchman's grand contra
diction," a little whisky to make it
stronger, little water to make it
weak, little lemon to make it sour, a
little sugar to make it sweet, and a
little bitters in it; he had forgotten the
name of cocktail.
1t is generally conceded that the rev.
enue laws passed by the Legislature of
1903 must be amended at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature. Property in
Storey and Esmeralda counties is al
ready far over-valued, making such
property bear from five to ten times
its proportionate share of the expenses
of the State government, if the state
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