The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-09-04
Carson Letter.

Carson Letter.
Ed. COURIER: Jim Townsend's in
vention of grindstone that could turn
in opposite directions at once is thrown
in the shade by the late Performance
of Mr.. Theron, late of Folsom, who
travelled east and west at once, and
took three dinners at once in as many
different places.
President Roosevelt's assurance to
the Republican leaders that he will
not permit the investigation into the
postoffice frauds and scandals to go
any further back than the statute of
limitations, will be accepted on the
basis of small favors thankfully re-
ceived, and large ones in proportion.
Thieves who committed their crimes
three years and over ago, cannot be
prosecuted criminally, but there might
besome chance of getting some of the
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President does not consider such
chances sufficient inducement to risk
the elections, by showing that the
Postoffice Department is rotten to the
core. Nevertheless, it would seem to
be his duty to let the people know who
the thieves are; some of them might
right now be on the directorate of
banking institutions, or holding posi-
tions of trust, handling private and
public funds, etc. The public are GER
tainly entitled to know who has rob-
bed them. The Democrats are crying
out for the exposure of the rascals, but
there is reason to believe that their
energy in this matter is spurred by
the ambition of placing enough weight
ON the Republican elephant to break
his back, because it is well known that
politicians care more for Office than
for the public service. Fifty years
ago the country would not rest quietly,
or at:all, with the knowledge that crime
had been committed, and that it woulo
not be exposed, because the statute of
limitations had run. But that was be-
fore the Republican party introduced
a new set of high moral ideas.
James Howard Bridge, once private
secretary to Herbert Spencer, the En-
glish philosopher and political econo-
mist, and late secretary to Andrew
Carnegie, has published history of
the Carnegie Steel Company. 1t is a
very high priced book, printed for pri-
vate circulation. 1t discloses most as
founding ideas of business morality.
That which is taught in the Good
Book, and in Churches, and by all
men who fear the Lord, and attempt
to, live according to the principles
taught by Jesus, as immoral and
wrong, is set forth in the History of
the Carnegie Steel Company as sound
business principles. What surprises
me is that the leading journals profess
to be shocked at the shameless EXPOSE
ton. 1t seems to me that upon slight
reflection they would realize the fact
that Christ never taught sound bust
ness principles, and that morality and
sound business principles don't mix.
One letter, printed in the History, has
attracted special attention. 1t is from
Schwab to Prick, two of the heaviest
owners in the company, in which Mr..
Schwab says: "You know we can
make steel rails for less than $l2 ton,
leaving a nice margin on foreign bust
ness. Besides this, foreign costs are
going TO increase year by year, be-
cause they have not the raw material,
while ours is going to decrease. The
result of all this is that we will be able
to- sell our surplus abroad, run our
works full all the time, and get the
best practice and costs in this" This
letter was written May 10, 1899, and at
that time steel rails were selling in this
country for $28 ton and the COM
pany was selling at a profit in the for
eign market. The reader will readily
see that but for the high protective
tariff, railroad builders would get steel
rails for little more than $12 ton,
and with reduction of over so per
cent in the cost of railroad building for
material Nevada would enjoy compel
ing lines, and corresponding reduc-
tion of fares and freights, and the read
or will thus see, further, that he is the
boy who pays for the high protective
tariff. Mr.. Carnegie says in one of his
books that men of high abilities are
not needed in the Congress of the
United States, as the machinery is so
arranged that it can run itself. 1t