St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-13
BANKER STATESMEN.
Senate Door Is Barred With
Gold and Opens But to
Golden Keys.
THE PEOPLE NOT IN IT.
Shivering in the Frozen Sea
Of Washburn' s Arctic
Smile.
THE VOICE OF THE FARMER
Joins the Universal Demand
for a Candidate Of the
Masses.
THE VOICE OF THE FARMER

When Col. Maverick Brander de-
clared that the United States senate
was the greatest club in America he Ut
tered a sentiment that seemed to III
spire in all other great men desire to
get into the club. 1t is fact that the
United States senate is body in which
the common people of the country take
but little interest since it has come to
be recognized as a sort of political arts
tocracy into which 10 man can break
except he be possessed of an 'intu-
ence" not usually found at the COM
maud of the class put down in the cen7
sus reports as poor, but honest" The
aspirant for senatorial bonors usually
huds that TennysOn's words still have
a ring of truth
Every door is barred with gold,
And opens but 10 golden keys.
That this is true is amply shown by
glance at the United States senate as
composed at the time of the publication
of the last official statements Of banks
and railroads. The presidents and di-
rectors of national banks, and the presi-
dents. directors and attorneys of great
mortgage on the United States senate,
and there is little wonder that the mem
bers OF that body hold out SO long when
it comes to
SmOtheFEn@ Legislation
which the people want and which the
corporations will not have. According
TO the authority mentioned the follow
ing senators are bank directors:
Allison, Iowa. Cameron, Pa.
EErice. Ohio. Daniel Va
Dixon. e. l.. McMtIIans MEcn.s
German Nd hurphFs n. L.
Mitchell. WIS., Platt. ct,
Power, Montana. sTO Il bridge Mich
Squire. Wash. Smith. n. =.
AIdrichs Il. l..
According TO the same authority the
following senators are either president,
director or general counsel for railroads:
FsrFce. Ohio. German. Md.
Daniel. Va Higgins, DeLs
Lindsay. Kan. Cameron. Tenn.s
Proctor, VT. Gray. Del.
Sanders. FFOut, FEcNiIInn. Mich.
FhursIOns Seb. EsCttigreyYs =. Ed,
NyOIcOJg. Col. sherman. ohio.
Perkins, Cal. Teller. COl.s
ElLxfns. Va. WashbNr7l. HEiun.
It will be seen by this statement that
there are in the senate a total of thirty
votes which have a direct personal
interest in all legislation affecting either
railroads or banks. while Senators
Price. German and Mcmillan are inter-
ested in both railroads and banks.
In view of this statement there will
be little wonder that the people cry
aloud in vain for legislation at the
hands of the senate which will lift from
their shoulders the burdens placed
there by the hungry corporations.
An Elevation TO the q. s. Senate
is a great honor. but it does not ellmi-
nate human nature from the person SO
honored. and the member of the United
States senate VINO has proprietary
interest in a bank or a railroad will pro-
tect that interest on exactly the same
theory which induces a country member
of the legislature to introduce a
bill providing for the determination
of Russian thistle or the Improvement
of the roads in his locality. 1t is the
innate and iIrepressible instinct of self