The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-08
UNIOx PACIFIC EXPOSURE

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7,i,n.s fred q broadside into the po-
litical corrupsionists VINO are no"
being led by Blaine. The I 'H.S
6sra5et its entire fist page to tie
omen and secret history of the Union
Pscidc railroad in its relations 10
the government and to certain pup
Ifc men of the country. The ex'
nosure is thorough and completes
beginning with the earliest IrauoS
and concluding with an explanation
Of how and why that venerable tool
of sharpers, if not himself a rogue
sidney Dill on was compelled to re-
tire from the presidency in order TO
keen out of the peni:entiary.
the Times article. which Was
written in Washington much
of the material evidently hay
ing been obtained from Official
reeords and accounts, teg'ns WITH
the scoundrelly operations Of the
Credit Mooilier contracts through
which The original directors OF the
road. by making constru ,tion cor
tracts with the nselves, were en-
apIed to steal millions Of dollars IN
stocks and bonds, awindiipg noi
OILY the government, but the
thousands of stockholders, rich and
moor widows and orphans, all over
the country. Jay Gould's aequlsl'
ton of the control Of the rosd Is
then explained in way to further
blacken the character of that souls
Iess shark; the paper tells how
Gould in defiance OF an act OF
G. ,npress, saddled upon the company
the "securities" Of the kansas
Pacific and Denver Pacific which
he had obtained at bankruptcy
prices, and how he raised the Union
Pacific Company's stock from $780,
7s2 SEQ to S61, 100000; how he raj
unchecked his high handed course
doing nothing to provide Tor TN
payment to the government OF loni
overdue interest on the subsld.
bonds: taking no step to provide TO
the redemption of these bends; vic
lsting the charter of the road tim
and again, almost without let {
hindrance; silencing Attorney-den
eral Brewster when the hone;
members OF Congress tried to urg
the latter to do his sworn duty
the government, and swapping b
fingers at all congressional threa
of forfeiture of the charter Or force
restitution of the millio,
of which he was robbing the n
tional treasury. 1t tells how Con
and his fellows were abetted
this course by Stanley Matthew
now en- the Supreme bench; Sen
for Teller, now Secretary of the |
terror: Senator Blaine, now the /
publican candidate for Plesider
BENJAMIN F. Butler, who Is nc
figuring as the presiding deity
the anti . monopolists; Audit
French, and others who have sin
been left at home by their cons
tuents or who have been placed
the nav roll of the Union Pacific
lobbyists.
Going on, the expose comes do
to last winter, when the Sen
judiciary committee, under the le
of Edmunds, brought the MOI
mental lav-deiyers to bsy' ]
munds, Mcmillan, Logan, lnga
Hoar, Bsyard, Lamar, Garland {
Pugh comprised the commit
and they startled the swil
ling, defiant Gro I'D by dems
ing that the latter refund
$40. 900, GOO, which it had stolen Fl
government, and threatening az
alternative a years imprisonm
for each of these great men Of
lions. Our readers will remem
that last winter the dispatches 4
mated that the Union Pacific n
mates vera thoroughly frightel
and from posing in defiant q
tude, they were suppl.nts for me-.
The Times writer. tells how t
nleaded with the committee,
showed thatif the committee shl
carry out its threat in the then
icky condition Of the money NAL
itwouId create such financialre
sion as would bring bankruptcy
on the whole country. They De
for delay, for mercy' and nuI
accepted the terms offered ny
munds; made partial Fesfitu