Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-08-19

government for S2@0,000 So infamous
was this last deal that the Wander
bits themselves, ohjccting to the large
profit to be made by those on the " in
side" have rcbellcd and disclosed the
truth. In the patriotic offer Of yachts
to the government by those who did
not dane to Use them in cruising, for
fear of being seized on the seas through
our trouble with Spain, we discover
that they had first arranged with
certain officials of the administration
for a most wholesome profit, and sold
these yachts at magnificent sums.
Among those whose patriotism was
rewarded with excellent premiums was
&c. =. Huntington. Illustrate his
pressing the favor upon us: Let me
recall how certain fashionable dude
in New York City had resurrectcd his
yacht from the bottom and secured a
certain administration Senator from q
Northern State, together with other
influence, sold it to the government
for 100000, and in the champagne
orgy at the Arlington Hotel disclosed
the details. The latter instance is
publicly stated in the New York
World through such a reliable man as
Alfred Henry Lewis, and is in nowise
denied"
The voters of Washington State will
have further startling campaign read
ing when Representative Lewis speech
reaches them under government frank.
After sandwiching into his speech
some alarming material about armor
plate and the steel trust, Mr.. Lewis
pays his respects to the railroads and
their part in this war. "The men had
to be transported to the different
camping grounds" adds the Washing
ton lawmaker. "Here we have certain
favored railroads combining together
and fixing the rate of transportation.
These institutions which only short
time ago were prating about national
honor, and waving the flag against
the 5O-cent dollar formed league.
and the chief officers of one of these
companies and another the head
offer of the Traffic Trust Association
have themselves named as officers to
control the transportation, becoming
titled Colonels. They arrange the
transportation of the soldiers and
their munitions over one or the other
of their favored lines and shut out
competition, send in their own bills
as officers of the railroad, and we find
that for nine weeks the transportation
bill was $l5,OOO,O0O and an extra
allowance to be paid after July l, of
$59,OOO,OOO. This computation offer
includes up to adjournment of Con-
gress. These figures are made on July
l6.
Let me mention the valiant fight
though successful-that the dis
tinguished Assistant Secretary of war,
Hon. Geo. d. Meiklejohn, made
against these criminal encroachmen Is
With all competition cut off by these
arrangements of favors to the rail-
roads which contributed in the last
campaign, these special railroads are
enabled to make more out of the Gov
ernment upon each man and his ac-
couterments by so per cent. than
when they would per individual had
each one bought ticket for his trip
from Seattle or Tacoma, State of
Washington, to the city of New York
and return to the city of Seattle.
"Take a liberal basis of 275,OOO
men. Let their travel be 1000 miles
to the seat of war, and then return
1000 miles. Put it at $50, which is
more than excursion rates from San
Francisco to Chicago-2,OOO, for $19-
and you have $S,25O,O0O. Give to
each man 1000 pounds, and call it $40
for every 100 pounds, and you have
$2,75O,OOO. Thirty thousand horses
and mules, at $50 apiece, which is
$500, 900. Thus you have about SILL
9OO,O 900. Thus out Of the $l5,O0OOOO
given, 81 ,0OO,OO is taken by them as
absolute profit upon. the computation
Of the army as individuals travelling
each man by himself; yet these are
the patriotic institutions whose friends
cry treachery when honest men OPP
pose these revenue steals.
"The ocean transportation provided
for them Il day rate of $2l 900 on the
Atlantic and 5000 on the Pacific, or
10000 per day, during six months of
transportation - assuming a contin-
uous transport, $4,5OO,OOO. Add to
that the land transportation of $11,-
500, 900, and we have 100000, and
yet this is not one-third of the $685.
100000 they take from the people by
the 'favors extended Two thousand
nine hundred dollars was charged to
move an empty hospital train from
Washington City to Tampa. Fifty
eight dollars and forty-fve cents is
charged from Philadelphia to San
Francisco for each man, when the ex-
cursion rate is but 1926. But this was
the result OF the railroad trust, and in
having the officers of the trust ap-
DOinted Officers of the Government at