The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-04
.Kansas CIV Times, Dec. p.

eyes, they will leave no stone I'M
turned in their opposition, and they
work most assiduously as well as
insiduously. Besides their open OPP
position and the violent denuncia-
ton of the press, they will attempt
by every means known to defeat
the measure. They have sent COM
mittees of bankers and business
men to Washington to influence
Congressmen- and Senators, and
they are now plying US with petit
lions and remoDstrances. WhereV-
er there is q Western or Southern
Senator or Congressman who has
acquintances or business cOnnec-
tons In the East, they are hunted
up and their influence is brought to
bear on the twayward brothers. as
they consider us silver men. Con-
gressmen and Senators are invited
to New York, are wined and dined
and proAered loans and accommo-
dations, all for the purpose of plac-
ing them under obligations and con-
trolling their votes on the money
question. / never before realized
the insidious influences brought to
bear by the east in shaping legisla-
ton. The New York papers are
almost the entire vehicles of news
and information in Washington,
and such is their power and influence
that they are well nigh omnlpOtent-
Where they cannot carry their point
by hattery, they attempt to do it by
intimidation and abuse. A case in
point IS that of Senator Matthews.
Because of his resolutions intro
duced some weeks ago, they are
now trying by every means in their
power to break him down, and hSve
misrepresented him most shameful
ly aud falsely, When in New Y ork
q short time since, on private bust
ness. l was invited to meeting of
the Union League Club, and a con-
certed effort to influence my opin-
ions was made by business ac-
quaintances. These gentlemen were
earnest and importunate in their
endeavors, and used every argument
at their command. One of them,
the representative of concern that
had loaned large sums of money in
Kansas, assured me that they would
place no more loans there if the sill
YER bill passed. I asked him if the
people of Kansas had not paid the
interest and principal of these loans
as they fell due, and he replied that
they generally had, as we'll as in
other sections. | then asked him
if he had any doubt about the secu-
rity, aud he said not. But, said he,
this is foreign money we are lend
ing out West, and we promised our
foreign patrons that while they were
loaning greenbacks they Vopld get
back gold, aud it will ruin our bust
ness and prevent our getting any
more foreign capital if we have to
send them silver. replied that
while we needed more capital in
Kansas l thought it would be bless
sing in the long run il no more ten
or twelve per cent. loans were made
there; that the very facility with
which people could borrow had
plastered the farms with mortgages
and drained hundreds of thousands
East every year to psy Interest, and
in the majority of cases the parties
could haVe got along without the
loans II they had been forced to do
it-iherefOFe that argument failed
with me-"
"rhe fact is" Continued the Sena-
tor, "those Eastern bankers, capital
lists and bondhoIders seem to have
forgotten that there are other inter-
ests to be consulted except their
own. They make their money out
of the great producing regions West
and South, and they seem to think
that is all the rights we have; that
they have all the financial wisdom,
and that the entire legislation on
this subject mnst be dictated by
them and their Interests. [ warned
my friends there that they were
carrying this thing too far. and
that they did not understand the
temper of the Western people; and
| while would not go as far as Mr..
Bland did IN his public expression
in reply to the bankers who visited
Washington, stiil there was more
truth than poetry 10 what he said,
and that one expression had q won
derful effect in opening the eyes of
the Eastern gold men,
"Do you not think, Senator, that
the national capital should be re-
moved from Washington and loca-
ted away FROM where tAese undue
Influences are used to shape legisla-
ton in the interest of one section
and against the others
81 do most assuredly, and so long
as occupy q seat in the Senate l
shall not vote one dollar for fuFth-
er improvements in Washington.
OF course there are certain expen-
ses necessary in caring for what
property the government has there,
| and for properly end conveniently
trensacting the public business, but
no more appropriations for psrma-
aent improvements in Washington
Is my policy. No people of the
Union are SO. favored as those of
that city. - The government has i'm
| proved and beautitied the city, and
the immeess army Of government
employees receive and disburse their
wages there-a regular and fixed
thing-s0bject 10 no contingencies
and absolutely Independent OF how
business may be elsewhere. The
taxes which they are called upon to
pay are lower than those of slmost
any other city of its size. i CON-
pared the tax on baHk stock in
/ Washington and several other large
cities. This is good standard, as
it's value is about the same every
where, and found that the banks
Of Washington pay from third to
. half less taxes in proportion than
in Sc. Louls or Chicago. And yet
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