The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-06-12
1908.
Carson Letter


residents there are not less than 81
millionaires. Still, the town has an
empty treasury, and there is no money
to pay the police force, and the Treas.
urer and Auditor of the town have re-
signed in disgust. 1t is evident from
the foregoing facts that for purposes
of taxation those millionaires "are not
there.n The fact is that for purposes
of taxation millionaires are nowhere,
and an expert bacteriologist could not
find them with a microscope, but when
it comes down to sharing the honors
of office, dividing spoils, and calling
upon the machinery of the govern
ment which they refuse to support to
protect their ill-gotten booty, they
loom up as big as whales.
The proceeds of sales of public lands
in Nevada for the fiscal years 1901 and
1902, from which must be deducted
costs, and a certain per cent which
goes to the School Fund, applicable
under the irrigation Act, is the sum OF
$26,414. During the same period Okla
homa sold 81 ,00S, 705 worth of land. 1t
will thus be seen that Nevada received
about enough to pay for surveys, and
Oklahoma has received more than it
needs, as its climate is not very dry.
OF course, after the surveys are COM
pleted, and the cost of construction
is ascertained, there will be greater
demand for Nevada lands, and enough
money may eventually be raised to
store water. The fact is that as land
becomes scarcer, population is bound
to overflow into the deserts, sooner or
later, but when?
I take pleasure in quoting the follow
ing, as it sounds very much like some
thing l wrote for the COURIER during
the past two weeks:
1.-THE Omaha (Neb.) World, edited
by r. T. Metcalf, the closest political
friend of W. J. Bryan, publishes a
three column editorial serving notice
that if the re-organizers in the Demo-
cratic party obtain control, the Bryan
wing will support Mr.. Roosevelt for
president in the next campaign. 1t
confesses that President Harrison was
a great and good man; and that the
Democrats were deceived about him
at first; that he was defeated by the
corporations and that the same in.
fiuences are now undermining Mr..
Roosevelt and trying to elevate Grover
Cleveland. Many prominent Bryan
Democrats in the west have limited
that they would support Roosevelt
rather than Cleveland in the event OF
the latter's nomination"
Mark Hanna, in stepping away from
the wheels of Roosevelt's car, which
was rolling through Ohio, said: ave
look back but few short months
when that heroic young man, standing
under the gloom of that awful tragedy
at Buffalo, feeling and approaching
the responsibility which had come up
on him and in the presence of the
American people made that sacred
promise to them that to the best of hit
ability, with his heart full of desire, il
should be his aim to carry out the poll
cies of President Mckinney" YoI
are fine old blarney, Mark, but it vii
not work. You mean by the policies
of Mckinley, your policies--a continu
ed high protective, discriminating tariff
but Roosevelt did not mean that, ant
the American people did not under
stand him to mean that; he is too
strong man to permit you to blarney
him into carrying out any such poll
cies. Roosevelt's latest utterance il
that this is not a government of thu
autocrat nor of the mob, and he desig
mated greed as crime. There are too
many millionaire manufacturers nov
who get their millions crying for pro
lection to infant industries. McKinle,
was a we'll meaning man, with kindl,
heart and a highly moral man, but h
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centrated wealth was good for tn,
human family, and he pleased tn,
millionaires too well to suit me. Tn,
poor loved him, and he was yer,
popular, and therefore required ;
smaller campaign sack than any othe
leader in the Republican party, an,
that is the kind of a man millionaire
want, and are now looking for.
The st. Louis Grand Jury have re
ported that the Council of the cit,
have sold laws and franchises to tn,
highest bidders, and also that Stat
Legislation has been sold in the SAM
way, to such an extent as to be alarm
ing to those who believe in free govern
ment. Whenever ruffians in tow
get uncomfortable by legal means W,
generally organize a vigilance com
mittee, and thus appeal to anarch,