The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-04-04

III become law 10 not know
what impression he aimed To create
but | do know that he talked like h,
was equal in wealth to Cruesus ana
that his purse strings were loose Il
those who would help him pass that
| blll-ttlls was the inference. When he
closed his talk | asked him for the
rate card he had in his hand. and he
replied, Il cannot spare YOU this one.
but when 90 home | will send YOU
one each. 50 chat YOU can study it. -
No rate card ever reached me until
the close OF the session. when | oh
tanned one from Senator Bradley
There is absolutely nothing in tho
bill that will benefit any one but No
Grew and other shippers who handle
The one class OF freight in car load
lots, ana from OSceOIa to Kansas
CIty We are getting better rates now
than his bill provides. telegraphed
TO the agent at Osceola (and tie has
the telegrams now on file in his Officel |
TO see what this bill would do for nv !
people. | went into the railroad |
commissioners office and compared |
the rates. Did Mr.. Dickinson do as
| suspect not. Had he been
so solicltOus of the interests of his
people 1t seems he might have looked
The matter up. | wager almost any
thlng you can mention that he did
not know anything about the pro
VISIONS OF this bill, nor what effect il
would have on the shippers of his
county We had men in the last
legislature who wanted to know but
'ne thing about freight bill. 1t is
AGAINST the railroads. This was
nough; though hundreds of poor
nen might suffer. it made no differ
nee Hollow out: Down with the
and it was like throwing .
red nag IN the face OF a wild bull.
It 1t they would 90, regardless of
never remem bprinr
hat they We're sworn to deal I
istiy and fairly with all the
lterpsts OF this great state. no in Y
part of whose material \
eaIth consist of the hundred and
1d railroads that span her Drairies
nd climb her hills.
MIR Editor. | am in favor of DrO- 7
citing the people against unjust D
ties by our roads and am equally /
favor OF treating the roads fairly. T
y record III the legislature in intro D
lcing and passing my antitrust |
" OF TWO years ago, and nv fran Y
Use bill presented to the last zen b
al assembly ought to be sufficient I
larantee against charges of favor p
monopoly, to satisfy any reason l.
lie man. And the howl raised [
,aInst NE and thrown to the breezes ?
the metropolitan press. while NV l.
atements OF fact have been either I.
ppressed or CARRIED. grows, to p
me extent at-least. out OF the leg /
aUlon have tried to have enacted. Z
Is Well known that the press had a
'ong lobby present TO prevent the
ssage OF a real revenue producing 7.
nchise law. | have the record to p
DIV that what | say is true. and in
lture article | will take pleasure in
ing the facts before the public.
1T. Editor, this Infamous howl "
seq against me has purpose be- tr I
q 1t, and when the people fully IN rece
stand it they will set down on the az e,
~ who have perpetrated this con
1ng, good and hard | have done t Of :
Thing of which | am ashamed. Al
Their will l deny for one moment t thre
action had or done bv me. I ship
w L am right and in the right no 1 IF9s
q has aught to fear-no cry of exec
by influence, Bill Phelps or any n ns;
er ldiotic howl can divert me ditto
n the plain path of duty or swerve SAD SAD
one inch from the right. Inhu- smit
es are not strong enough. men e eoTd,
not big enough. and scarecrows hold
not be invented hideous enough de- 5es
rive me from my purpose to do htrsi
Il: Howl and be damned, What h h,gn.
L for the yell of a set OF bienas on
ne braying OF lot of wild asses
more voice than sense. more betw
e than brains. s soon ,
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