The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-02-28

only currency bill that shall become a
law at this session is the Aldrich bill,
which IS in the nature Of a substitute
for the Fowler bill, and gives the gold
trust and the banks of the country a
tighter cinch on the people than even
the Fowler bill. They say they intend
to push it through, and I guess they
will. They can do most any old thing
they want to do, and the people pay
freight.
The great Grosvnor, of Ohio, the
moutbpiece of the Mckinley admin
istraiions, the member of the com
mi,iee on rules in the house, through
whose hands go all the legislation,
passed by that body and who has been
the republican oracle, the statlslician
and political prophet and seer and as
Champ Clark calls him the ''siud bug
of arithmetic, has come to grief. The.
republican idol is shattered, and its
earth star fed. The immaculate and
white-souled Grosyenor has fallen from
alttudinous perch, and he popped like
a painted bladder.
He has been caught pulling trust
magnates' legs in the most approved
and latest fashion
Grosvenor compiled a book called
'sTbe book of the Presidents" and he en-
tered into an arrangement with q book
agent to sell them and in doing so Gros
y wrote letters of introduction for
his man Friday 10 all the big trust folk
importuning them to buy his book and
telling them to make o. checks pay
able only to his order. OF course he
got returns. He has been for years
serving the trusts and why should not
they reciprocateP A New York news
paper exposed the whole game and
published \ facsimile letter from Gros-
to me of the big trust magnates
Of the country, also facsimile check, one
from ]. Pierpont Morgan for $1,000
and one from Secretary Of the Treas
ury Shaw for 800. The book really
was worth about q dollar and a half,
but these checks we're in the nature of
a present to the statesman from OHIO
IN recognition Of his invaluable services
to the party of trusts md combinations,
one from the biggest duck in the trust
puddle and one from the man who
loans money to the trusts banks with
out interest, thus defying the law of
the land.
There was some talk IN the press Of
the East before the last stroke, and
GrosVenor rushed into print and denied
the whole thing and said he had never
written a letter to any one asking them
TO subscribe to his book, and that he
had placed the whole thing in the hands
of an agent who was to pay bim a
royalty on his sales. 1t was then that
the newspaper came out with the fac
smile letter and checks, and it seuelch.
ed Grosvenor and silenced his batteries
He has not opened his head since. He
has nothing to say. He has been caught
with the goods on him.
The trusts magnates of the country
either have worked a film fam game
IN the President Of the United States,
and no q accuses him on being a fool
or else he is in league with the trust
magnates to fool the people anent the
recent so-called ANTITRUST Legislation.
The inside history of the kilograms
sent to the republican senators by trust
magnates, peremptorlly ordering them
to stop all anti-trust Legislation, shows
a queer condition, of affairs in The
higher councils Of the republican party
When the republican leaders found
that the democrats looked with disdain
upon the so-called antitrust Legislation
that the republican leaders aud the
trust magnates had c~oncocted, and
would not say a word against it, they
feared the result Of his silence on the
minds Of the voters. Something bad 10
30 done to MAKE il appear that the
trusts were being curbed and the job
was put up than Rockefeller should
telegraph orders stoAall Antl-.ruet
legislation and one lpfthags telegraphs
,ufacinred by the Christiania i0n'