The representative., 1901-02-28
A BARREL GROWN LIGHT.
Depew's Little Joke Has a Serious
Application.

Application.
1t was a good joke which Senator Depew
sprang upon Senator Spooner, as related
in the Worlds Washington gossip recently
If an empty barrel weighed 10 pounds,
what could one fill it with to make it weigh
seven pounds? Senator Spooner gave it up
Fill it full of holes" said our quick witted
junior senator.
But the best of this little joke lies in
an application of it. The ship subsidy bill
came before the senate as a much heavier
barrel than that selected by Mr. Depew
for the purpose of the jest Despite the
best efforts of the gentlemen in the upper
chamber who favor the measure. it has
been pretty thoroughly punctured. Senator
Depew himself made quite an aperture in
a speech which, far from bolstering I'D the
cause at issue, was a plain argument for
free ships The subsidy barrel is indeed full
or holes. 1t has lost weight incalculably
There can be no wiser policy than to let it
Tighten away till only the holes are left
New York World.
The ship subsidy bill is not dead, but
merely sleeping. Like the Infamous
Loud bill, it is allowed to go over this
term of congress while the corporate
interests behind the measure figure and
scheme on the cheapest way to get the
oAfA I'LL Ou6A. 40 NIL IOWCll Says IN an
other column, the bill will eventually
pass. The delay has been the result of
quarrel between Atlantic and Pacific
ship owners over division of the loot.
The old line ship companies and owners
of boats on the Great Lakes naturally
want the lions share of the bounty.
On the other hand, the Great Northern
and other railroads reaching the Paclt1c
coast seaports and interested in Pacific
shipping are putting up big fight for
half the loot to be paid to Pacific ship
ping.
They are agreed on one polnu-,ne
United States treasury shall be looted
of $9,O00,0O0 per year to be paid by the
producers of the country. Sen
ator Pettigrew, the last of his kind in
the United States senate, punctured the
bill and defeated it for this session. All
the reform press and many of the old
party papers are constantly exposing
the steal. Reform papers are doing this
from principle. Old party papers are
exposing the robbery because it is be-
tween campaigns when they are not
under contract and paid to support the
administration policies. These ship
owners have simply let go to get bet
ter hold. They will press the bill again
at the next session. Loud will also
press his bill to wipe out the country
press and give monopoly to the pluto
cratic city dailies. Every reformer
should keep constantly in mind the
supreme Importance of two things: We
must get direct legislation and better,
more earnest and more active suppOrt
should be given the reform papers,
Without these papers our cause is lost.
there would be no possible way to teach
the people their wrongs and point them
to the remedy-direct legislation. Save
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