Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-02

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vised to injure the insuring COM
panies has been bought off only on
payment of 5000, 900 in the last
fifteen years. Bills for taxing
whiskey for as much or more than
it is worth cost the distillers &c.
900 to veto. Maybe they were
able to pay their assessments in
goods. Even SO innocent a meas
ure as that of the Audubon socie-
ty for the protection of the song
birds of Missouri was assessed at
valuation of 81, 800.
Rotten, rotten to the head, is the
legislature of Missouri. And what
are we to think of the people that
elect that kind of a legislaturei
What are we to think of the men
who control great corporations
buying these Legislators as they buy
other cattlei 1t appears that in
stead Of assembling to make laws
these persons elected for the pur-
pose assemble to make strikes.
Legislation is bought in open mar
ket. You pay for what you get
and if you are threatened you pay
for safety. 1t is the New York po-
lice again, under the system.
Now, the remedy for all this is
the same remedy that is urged in
the case of black mail by the walk
ing delegate-publicity. When a
legislator makes a demand for
money in order to be corrupted, let
the facts be known. How many
legislators would dare public ap-
probrihm in the face of this dis
closure! Yet what possibility of
Legislative reform can we see
when milliOnaires encourage cor
ruption, and pay out their millions
with free hand to the most de-
based and contemplate members
of the community. In Missouri
popular government has been
failure. Let us confront the stu
alton squarely. 1t is better far to
have no law making at all than a
body of thieves chosen, how, God
knows, by II public whose ideas of
decency and morality used to pre-
vail Missouri is not alone, un-
fortunately. We have purchasable
men in Albany; we have them in
every state. When will come the
great uprising, and the hurting of
these frauds, robbers, traitors and
parasites into outer darkness!
st. Louis, June 24.-It cost the
sugar trust 81 900 at least to Sc
cure the passage by the senate of
Senator .Iewells pure candy bill.
1t cost the candy trust 3d. to
have the bill delayed in the senate
so long that its passage by the
house WAS um impOSsihility.
The latter fact developed in the
investigation conducted in con-
; nection with the grand jury this
, afternoon. The trust that paid
the most money got the law it
wanted, which is in keeping with
the traditions of this states law
making body, but not every one
, knows how to get money from both
= sides and not leave any marks.
Unless a respectable Democratic
politician who was in Mr.. Folk 5
private Office an hour and then
went before the grand jury is a
liar without conscience, John A .
Lee was a party to both deals.
That man says Lee negotiated the
candy trust deal of $500 aud
paid money to senators who have
not been accused here of getting
money.
? Lee himself has said he got 81 =
600 from Havemeyer of the sugar
E trust Tor writing an article on sug-
ar and if the press dispatches from
New York be reliable Havemeyer
: has confirmed the story, but the
a articles Lee wrote on sugar have
not yet been dug up and sent to
the grand jury, and then it is very
odd that Havemeyer should have
r as busy a man as the lieutenent
: governor of this imperial common
: wealth. right in the middle of a
busy session of its lawmaking
body, to write a few reflections on
. sugar. Kelley sticks to his posi-
e ton that Lee got the money fOl
e votes and influence and not fol
Q his skill as an author.
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