The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
HANNkS LATEST SCHEME.
VIII Make an Effort to SubsidiZe the
Country Press and Poison This
Avenue of Information.
Why the Funding Bill Was Voted Down In the
House Who Will Control the Senate-What
the Election Of Kyle Means.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, Feb. H.-The battle
over the Arbitration Treaty continues
behind closed doors In the Senate. The
chances for defeating this infamous
and dangerous British trap have i'm
proved. The chances are that before
the senate adjourns tonight (Satur-
day. the treaty will either be de-
feated by direct vote, or else indefin-
itely postponed. II the dors Of the
Senate could be thrown open and the
true intent ard purpose Of this Arbi-
tration treaty exposed in open session
the sentiment OF all patriotic Ameri-
can citizens would rapidly crystalize
against 1T. There is located some-
where secret tory bureau, sending
out circulars to the preachers. quak-
ers, women and children, urging the
senate to ratify this treaty. These
circulars simply present the abstract
question: Do you favor settling diff
ferences by war or by arbitration? or
course in answer to this abs tract Ques-
tion everybody says: In favor Of arbi-
tration. Then the British tory circu
lar suggests that If you favor arbitra-
tion petition the Senate to ratify the
treaty now before it; and thus thous-
ands of good people who have never
read the treaty, and know nothing Of
its provisions and ultimate purposes,
are moved by sentiment to petition
the Senate to vote for something
which none Of them would favor If
they understood its real purport. 1t
is no doubt the Williams Street Re-
form Club, located on Wall street, New
York, which sends out gold literature
and furnishes gold patent insides"
free to newspapers, tha3 is busily en-
gagged In working up this sentiment;
but the light will soon be turned on,
and the people will sustain those who
fight the treaty tG the death.
MARK HANNA's LATEST MONOPOLY
SCHEME.
Mark Hanna and the gold syndi.
Gates, trusts, and mOnOpOlleS behind
him, have begun to realize that they
have won their last victory unless
they can devise some scheme for cut
ting off all the avenues Of information
and truth to the people. They own
the telegraph wires and control the
Associate IreSS ulSpdUCLeS, ana nave
nearly all of the great metrOpolita u
newspapers subsidized, and thus
through these powerful channels they
keep the truth from the people, and
infect and poison the matter dished
up TO the people through the daily
press each morning. But they are
alarmed for fear the people will yet
learn the truth through the country
newspapers. and through such reform
books as "American Peoples Money"
"President John Smith," "a General
Freight and Passenger Post, and 9th
er such works that now pass through
the mails as second class matter.
Therefore, they have laid two schemes
to cut off this source Of information.
One of these schemes is through the
Loud Postal BILL which has passed the
House. and which they are now max
ing desperate efforts to pass through
the Senate committee on postoffices
and postroads They are determined
to rush the bill through at this ses
sion of Congress if possible.
Their second plan, which Mark Han
ma has taken charge Of personally, j:
to subsidlze the country weekly news