The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-02-21
Combines and Corporations
Control All Legislation at
Washington.
DELVE DEEP IN TREASURY.
Favored Rich Divide the Peoples Mil
lions With Lusty Greed Republi-
cans Are in Fright.
STILL PARTY WHIP CRACKS.

There is nothing so thankless as
object when schemes and interest ar
Orga nized to loot the treasury. Th
tremendous expenditures constant,
before our eyes are SO demOralizin;
To our minds that we are incapa bl,
OF understanding and approaching
them. When the people once realiz
the situa alton, and it is too early We
probably. those who are responsible
| for these expenditures will call upon
the rocks and mountains to hide
| them from the wrath of the people
Every measure is urged because i
has some great industry Gf intc"a~'
or class behind it When We get Il
the end OF this congress and figure VI
the appropriations the sum will be-
larger, very much larger, than any
estimate that has been made. and it
is last in such times as this that dan
ger comes in.
This statement was made with EN-.
phasis in the senate to-day by Sena
tor Eugene Hale of Maine The
Extravaganza OF the appropriations
OF this congress, as it draws to its
close, is startling, even to conserva-
tive republican leaders.
Mr.. Lodge, OF Massachusetts. fol-
lowed Mr. Hale He, too. sounded
the alarm.
"We are pushing along" said Mr..
Lodge, ito the billion dollar mark in
our appropriations, and we have
got to draw the line We have reach
el the point now when the people are
becoming alarmed
SEE DANGER SIGNAL AHEAD.
1t is at last dawning upon the re-
publicans that public vengeance
might be meted out to the party in
power, and it is said that word has
come from the president and the sec
rotary OF the treasury that appro-
priatiOn bill must be cut down. Ac-
C prding to Senator Hale, the amount
will be much larger than any esti-
mate that has been made on the
floor of the senate. The Maine states
man had in mind the fact that Il e
have been as high as SS4O.-
900, 900.
Is it Il fact that there is to be "A
''billiOn dollar" session? A billion
dollar. congress was repudiated i'll
1890, Even the appropriation OF
1899, when we paid for the Spanish
war We're far short of the estimates
81 this session. The military budget
alone this year is nearly $500. 0OO.-
300. This is significant in the light
Of the fact that excepting the year OF
the civil war, the military budget
alone calls for more money than it
cost to run this government any
year, war, navy, pensions and all
other expenses included, from the
foundation OF the government until
1898. This fact, and the fact that
our military budget is over twice as
arge as that of any nation in the
world, is alarming. but the alarm is
sounded too late. The interests be-
llnd the extraordinary raid upon
The treasury by this congress are all
powerful in the republican party. The
appropriations will 90 through as
speeches made by such men
as Senator Hale and Senator Lodge
being at the same time preserved for
Use In the nextcampajgn.
The republicans are tied hand and |
DOT To the interests that furnished !
The campaign fund. The payment OF !
heir political account is now being /
made out OF the treasury of the /.
United States.
BOUNTY TO OIL COMBINE.
Hardly day passes that some /
special interest does not collect a /
special favor. To-day the Standard /
III bank Of New York was the recipi- (
mt OF public bounty at the hands OF
he republican majority of the house. !
he country i thoroughly familiar
With the contract Secretary Gage
made with the bank when it BOUGHT
he old New York custom house. pre-
umah'y Tor three and a quarter
million dollars. but in fact for abouf
'He-haf million. The government
Jays the bank 4 per cent rental on
he purchase price Tor ten years. The
1ank deposited in its own vault the
purchase price, less $4,000. to the