The morning news., 1898-08-27


uuon cut off by these arrangements of
favors 10 the railroads which contr, buted
IN the last campaign. these special rail-
roads are enabled to make more out of the
government upon each man and his ac-
eoutrements by 50 per cent than they
would per individual had each one bought
a ticket for his trap from Seattle or Ia
coma state of Washington. TO the city OF
New York and return to the city of Seat
tie
Take a liberal basis of 275OO0 men.
Let their travel be 1,000 miles to the seat
of war, and then return ], 900 miles Put
1t az $50. which is more than excursion
rates from san Francisco to Chicago
2,@0 miles for $19-and YOU have S. 10000.
Give 20 each man l.o00 pounds. and call
II $40 for every 100 pounds, and YOU have
&1oaCOO Thirty thousand horses and
mules, a $50 apiece. which Is S900000
Thus you have about $l1 800 000. Thus out
of the $l5.000000 given, $1,000 900 is taken
by them as absolute profit upon this
computation of the army as individuals
travelling each man by himself; yet these
are the patriotic Instructions whose
friends cry treachery when honest men
oppose these revenue steals
The pecan transportation provided for
them a day rate of $2l 600 on the Atlantic
and 5000 on the Pacific, or $4,000 per
day, during six months of transportation
assuming a continuous transport $i500,-
600. Add to that the land transportation of
Sll 100000. and we have SIG 400. 600, and yet
this Is not one-thIrd of the $5S 600, 900 they
take from The people by the 'faVors eX-
tended. Two thousand nine hundred
dollars was charged to move an empty
hospital train from Washington to Tam
pa. Fifty-eight dollars and forty-five
cents is charged from Philadelphia TO
san Francisco for each man, when the
excursion ie
the result of the railroad trust. and in
having the officers of the trust appoint
Ell officers of the government at such a
critical time
Let it further be remembered that the
offer was made to transport these men
from Washington to Norfolk and from
Detroit to Chickamauga by competing
companies at N.29, yet those in the ia
Vored circle We're able to raise it TO S12
through the pun, shut out competitors,
and, with influence in the government,
force the officers of the administration 10
accept their rates and pay this amount
This, we are told, is patriotism, and that
a man who speaks out against this rob
berry as traitor. and that a man who
cgiticises this infamy at time when the
nen who are being transported like sheep
and cattle sleeping in box cars, huddled
on side tracks, and hungry, no provision
being made for their comfort by these in
sutuuons, is criucising the government
in the hour of patriotismr God forbid
this SANDER.
Representative Lewis sweeps down the
line with many more charges affecting the
contracts for uniforms, clothes and food .
touching on the coal trust-its aid to the
enemy''-and finally declaring that "the
financial and moneyed institutions refuse
10 pay the tax" A brilliant peroratioD.
with that majestic command of language
Thai his pOllQq In ha HADga ar aa
customed to. concludes his campaign ef-
fort Stand upon the declared principals
of honesty" he exhorts; che not swervod
by the mock cries of patriotism, but in
an hour like this, when justice is de
manded in behalf OF the loyal and patri-
otic, for the dead ana the dying, let us
adopt as a creed that text of Gen. Grant
and cry out, Let no guilty man escape. 8"
An in all, the speech is one of the
Erandest to contemplate In black and
white that Representative Lewis has ever
favored Washington with.