The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-04-06
THE -yIpsER IN rae wOOD PILL'

Thk -NlGdEk IN IhE WOOD ftoHh
n is announced this week frum
Washington that J. Pisrpen, Aorgsa'
the American money king has 90 hand
= gigantic scheme. He proposes thai
The government shAil abandon ils plan
Of building q canal across the isthniu,
Of Panama and permit private capital
to take up and 6uish the work AlresdJ
accomplished on the Panama canal.
Mr.. Morgan scconPapisd b james,
Hill, president Of the Great Nerthern
railway and chief stockholder OF the
Northern Pacific went TO Washington
Monday afternoon on Mr.. Hills yAchi
aud held a conference with Senator
Hanna who had been notified Of theiE
intended arrival. Il was understood
that after seeing Hanna Messrs. Nor
gan aud Hill would zee Prendcst NO
Kinlsy and endosvor 70 interest him N
their project. It appears that shs
French carcass, known 81 the Pseana
company, hes been bought Up by N0r'
gan and Hill At soap grease prices and
that they are nov preparing TO reFivifS
the mummy.
Thus begins the un~covesiDg Of the
"niggsr In the wood p,ls" aud the re-
vealing OF the motives Of the present
republican administration or the repub-
lies administrators IN not allowing
the NlcArAugua canal bill TO b pressed
to fuAl settlement 10 the last congress
II will hardly be claimed By Asssrs.
Morgan and Hill that the stock Of the
defunct Panama Company bss eseH
bOught up since ths adiourrusat q
congress a. such deals are hot accen.
plisbed In q short tI0se aad Il tskss 90
violent strsinihg Of The imagination 70
believe that this deal has been 10 pro.
greis for many months. Thai u sAoald
DO kept 'sub rosa" until AFTER the 3D.
journmeni Of congress, was snly 70 b
expected sS thereby no opposition TO
the scheme could be developed and no
counter action taken.
We understand nov why Mr.. Hsnbs
was 70 determined TO pass the ship sub
sidy bill, as bis ship subsidy scheme
appears to ba only = part Of the great
pbilanthroPic ~ plan Of Mr.. Morgan
to lift from the shoulders Of the govern
uieni the burden Of constructing aoaaal
across the isthmus. Nov thai congress
Is out Of the way the plan may safely be
unfolded. Mr.. Hanna Of course has
been Jess before. DuriAg the vacation
u congress. time viii b ample for
iesiag a large number Of coagressmsn
md senslors and By the time congress
pens u bill will doubtless be ready
providing for the turning over to the
Morgan Hill Vanderbilt Gould. Hanna
consolidation the isthmiAn canal pro.
lecl. OF course the bill will provide
hat in consideration Of the patriotic
,etion Of this great syndicate Of money
aud railroad mAgnatss In relieving the
government Of all trouble about the
canal building, the government will
reclprOcAte BY guaranteeing the later.
est on the canals bonds Tor the arsi
twenty-five or fifty years.
With q ship subsidy bill 70 ensblt
this patriotic band 10 maintais a hse Of
mail steamers seros the Atlantic; and
. Pacific steamship line from our
western coast 10 Honolulu aud Hong
Kong and BY aid OF the subsidy shsi
out all composition, and with the
isthmIin canal entirely under their
e1utrOl end the gigantic railroad con.
solldstions in the same haods, the
people Of the United States will wake
up some doe mOruiDg and iud that
their commerce is st the mercy Of the
most gigantic trust ever conceived 10
the minds Of grAsping mOuOpslists.