Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1902-04-24
MEXICO AUDRAIN COUNTY MISSOURI THURSDAY

amount due the State. Yet within a
month from the date of this report
this Legislature passed an act fasten-
ing upon the State s5,7sO,OOO Of the
Missouri Pacific indebtedness and re-
lieving the railroad company Of this
sum.
Naturally, the question would arise
as to the cause which led the
Legislature to add over $1,000, 900 to
the burdens Of the people.
CORRUPT FUND USED.
The facts came out in suit in the
United States Court in the case of
James NJ. Lamb ct al VS.. the Missouri
Pacific Railroad Company, in which
the evidence established the fact that
a corruption fund Of sl93, 64s.60 had
been used by the managers of the Mis-
souri, Pacific to pass the bill releasing
the road Of s5,7SO,OO and fastening
that sum on the people.
MOCK SALE or THE FRISCO.
But still there were other promoters
and political favorites to be taken care
Of. The Frisco owed the State Sc, $780,
600. Another mock sale was held, and
the road with over million acres OF
land, knocked of at 81, 100000.
After the purchasers paid 1925, 900,
they concluded the State could be
beaten out Of the remainder, and this
same Legislature generously passed an
act relieving the purchasers Of the
payment of the remainder Of their
bill.
BY this last act the State had fas-
tened upon 1t an additional debt Of
90, 19s,7 ITO.
These are all matters Of record.
They constitute one of the darkest
chapters In the history Of the common
wealth.
Riotous corruption held high carni-
val in the legislative halls of the State,
a condition more appalling, II possible,
than that which has SO recently
aroused the honest citizens Of st.
To1is IN the need for heroic action in
dealing with official boodlers.
ooNrRAsr rNpER DEMOCRACY.
For some unknown reason the Han.
nibal and st. Joseph Railroad did not
take advantage Of the prevailing cor
ruption to rid itself three millions of
Indebtedness AZ the expense of the tax
no vere ~ the state This road after
,hs naroocrots can me into nower maid
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In the face of the inaugural mes
sage of a Republican Governor, "that
the roads are ample security for the
amonnts advanced TO them respective
ly. - can any honest Republican to-day
hold tl,athis party did not put a debt
Of az. 7e0. 600 on the people, when for
5000, 900 it released the States lien
against the Wabash for the entire
amount OF that roads Indebtedness?
Can any Republican face an intelli-
gent audience and hold that the re-
leasing Of the Missouri Paclfic's loan
of IS. 7s0, 900, in the face of the report
Of the Legislative Committee (made at
the same SESSION., that the road was
worth over twelve millions Of dollars,
or the sale of the Iron Mountain to
the lowest bidder, or the giving away
Of the Frisco with over a million acres
of land for the paltry sum OF 1926, 900,
was an honest transaction?
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