The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-11-27
Carson Letter.
ED. COURIER:

MANY Democrats are opposed to the
Hay-varilla treaty with Panama, and
certain it is that all the pro-railroad
press is actively engaged in most bit
terly denouncing President Roosevelt
for the manner in which Panama be-
came an independent State. 1t is real
" comical to BEE these railroad organs
shedding tears over what they claim
to be a violation of the Constitution,
after their years of trampling upon
that instrument. They accuse the
President of having secretly connived
at and encouraged the revolution
which set Panama free. But this can
not be true. The Isthmians knew that
the President and the great majority
of the people of the United States and
of Europe want the canal excavated,
and they took their chances of being
protected, after they accomplished their
independence. They felt that they
would be protected, as they had the
right to feel The first article of the
treaty is as follows: 1.-THE United States
guarantees and agrees to maintain the
independence of the Republic of Pana-
ma" They needed no such assurance.
All they had to do was to sign treaty
granting the United States right of
way, and they knew the United States
would protect it and protect the coun-
try through which it passed. The new
treaty with Panama is much more fav-
orable to the United States than the
treaty with Colombia. 1t gives the
United States ten miles on each side
forever, instead of for term of years,
and full police power, and the right to
enforce peace and quiet in the cities of
Colon and Panama. 1t was impossible
to get a treaty out of the Colombians.
Their legislators were in the hands of
the transcontinental railroads of the
United States, and they wanted more
money, and imposed terms that could
not possibly be accepted by the United
States. Senator Morgan of Alabama
fought for the Nicaragua canal for
many years, and SO did his strong fol-
lowing in the Democracy, and under
stand he is still fighting against the
Panama canal, and that they are try
ing to make campaign issue of the
matter. If it is true, it goes a long way
to prove that Morgan has been advo-
eating the Nicaragua route solely in
behalf of the railroads. If that matter
is brought up against Roosevelt in
Nevada, the State should go Republi-
can. There is nothing that interests
Nevada more than rates of fares and
freights, and the building of the Pana-
ma canal will solve that problem for
Nevada, and any man who votes
against it should lose Nevada's sup
port. Why, it would be just like vot-
ing against the construction of acorn
peting line of railroad, and in favor of
the extortions of the Southern Pacific.
All credit is due Roosevelt for taking
the bit by the teeth so suddenly, and
with one mighty stroke cutting the
manifold entanglements thrown over
the situation by the railroads.
do not believe the Indian convicted
of murder in the first degree from Lin
coin county ought to hang. | do not
believe that either justice or any mat
ter involving the safety of our own
people would he subserved thereby.
The man killed, Bill Williams, was
fugitive from justice, and an outlaw
from civilized government, and he had
adopted the rules and regulations of
our barbarian tribes, and submitted
himself to their unwritten laws. He
had abandoned all rights of protection
from a civilized government, and had
adopted such protection as the I'M
written laws of Indians afford. On
the other hand, the young Indian was
living within the rules and regulations
aid customs of his own people-all I'M
written-and yet chargeable with
knowledge If civilized laws, but he can
be charged witt such knowledge only
as against those Who obey the laws of
a civilized government. He dealt with
one of his kind, subject to his own Gus
toms, by virtue of having abandoned
one and adopted the other. 1t is GER
tainly wrong 70: us, as civilized ma
ton, to suddenly spring penalties I'M
recognized by others, and without
warning. But stronger still, and stat
ing facts that would authorize a much |
milder sentence, is the fact that the
boy barbarian must have lived in dread
OF MS own dife. His life had been !
threatened by Bill Williams, who had
threatened the lives of many others of
his tribe, and he must have been infu-