The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-18


exposed the bribery has been more
abused than the men who did the
bribing.
One of the most outrageous ray
aages' Of the money power was eX-
posed in 1915 in the Pacific Railroad
row in Congress when Tom Scott was
trying to secure a large subsidy for the
Texas Pacific Road, and G. p. Hunting
ton was working counter to him for
enormous grants and subsidies to the
Central Pacific. The case is too long
to be elaborated, but extracts from
letters written to General Cotton by c..
p. Huntington will be sufficient to show
the audaciOus and INSCRIPTIONS meth
obs to which the money power will go
when desiring the accomplishment Of
an object.
In a letter dated Nov. 20, 1874, HUI t.
ingtOn wrote, Scott is prepared, or
promises to pay a large amount of
money to pass his bill, but | do not
think he can pass it, although I think
this coming session of Congress will be
composed of the hungriest set Of men
ever got together, and the d only
knows what they will do
Under the date Of Dec. /, 1874, a let
ter contains the following:
Have any of our people e~ndeavOred
to do anything with Low and Frlsble!
They are both men that can be con
WINGED. X X X 1t would help us very
much if we could fix up Cal. Pacific in
come and extensions on the basis that
was talked of, even if we had to pay
something to convince Low and
Frisbie."
May 1, 1875:
4 notice what you say of Luttrell; he
is q wild hog; don't let him come back
to Washington; but as the house IS to
be largely Democratic, and If he was
to bedefeatedIi likely it would be charged
to us, hence | think it would be well to
beat him with Democrat; but | would
defeat him anyway, and if he got the
nomination put up another Democrat
and run against him and in that way
elect a Republican. Beat him"
Sept. q, 1875:
Cannot you have Stafford call the
legislature together and grant us such
charters as VT want at a cost say of
$25, OOO2 If we could get such a char
ter as l spoke to you of it would be
worth money to us. If there is any
thing to be done 1t must be done
qutkly.'
January Il, 1876:
u have received several letters and
kilograms from Washington to-day all
calling me there. as Scott will certainly
pass his TeXasS Pacific bill if [ do not
90 over, and | shall go over tonight.
= 1t cost money to fix things 50
that I would know his bill would not
pass. | believe with 5000, O0O | can
pass our bill"
These are but few of volume of Illus
trations which Will show the "ravages
of the money power" 1t may oe that
when the method of the passage of the
subsidy bill is made known IF it ever
shall be affairs equal in interest to
those above may be developed. There
is a great financial scandal in Phila-
delphia arising from the smash Of the
keystone bank. 1t is openly charged
that the officers and managers Of the
bank, who r active Republicans and
politicians, were of much service to
the Republican party in its campaigns.
and the belief is that much of themiss-
ing money was used to help that party
in its contest of last year.
Now, if the indianapolis Journal or
anybody else wants to know more
about the "ravages of the none
power, the Reform Press Bureau Will
furnish the information.
III. W. AVER.