The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-10-13
DANGER OF THE REPUBLIC.
Doodle and the Corporations Control
the cCrrupt Party in
Power.

and In succeeding campaigns. that an
enormous corruption fund was raised
from the railroads, banks. trust COM
panies, insurance corporations and 9TH
er sources, il was Indignantly denied by
the republicans. Since those campaigns
the evidence has been leaking out that
those charges were true and the amount
not exaggerated. Enough money was
subscribed to buy every voter that was
willing TO sell his vote in the doubtful
states, and the result in 1896 showed that
OF the votes so bought about 20. 600 divid.
ed between the close states decided the
election.
The latest evidence on the providers
OF that corruption fund has been given
by Mr.. Perkins, partner OF j. p Nor
gan and also connected with the New
York Life insurance company. before
the committee of the New York legisla-
ture, now investigating the life insur-
ance companies OF that state He testl-
fled that the New York Life Insurance
company paid $4,000 last fall to tho
republican campaign fund. and that
greater sums were paid In 1896 and
1900.
These enormous contributions from
one corporation indicate the vast
amount Of money used TO corrupt the
voters OF the United States. for there
is no doubt the other insurance COM
panies paid similar amounts. and the
railroads and trusts even more.
Eighteen hundred and ninety-six was
the beginning of the era of graft and
corruption that has since spread like a
prairie fire from one end of the country
TO the other and that has resulted in the
scandals that have been exposed of the
republican management of our national
affairs and those states where that party
is in the ascendancy. Will the honest
voters allow such a system TO continue?
If they do, ii is not too much to say that
the republic will be undermined and a
Wall street oligarchy of wealth will
soon rule instead of the people
We are not very far from that to-day.
We hear Of visits OF Wall street mag
mates to Oyster Bay and We see their
partners appointed to positions where
they can do vast service to their asso-
ciates, which from the nature OF things
must be to the detriment of the peo-
pie. President Roosevelt must have
known of the large contributions from
the Wall street interests to his cam
paign fund. Mr.. Bliss. the treasurer OF
the republican national committee. re-
ceived the money and Mr.. Cortelyou.
who has since been rewarded by his ap-
pointment as postmaster general ana is
still chairman Of the republican nation
al committee. expended what the trusts
and the corporations provided.
The late Senator Hanna might be ex-
cused for demanding and expanding
such vast sums as he received in 1896,
for the republican emergency was great.
but last year there was no need to cor
rupt the voters. II was patent to even
superficial observers that Mr.. Roose-
welt would be elected at least three
months before the event occurred. The
fact is that the republican workers have
become so debauched by being paid that
they refuse TO work or vote until the
usual honorarium and Doodle is forth
coming
Is anyone foolish enough to believe
that these corporations contribute these
large sums without expecting. and prob
ably being promised. advantages or spe-
cial privileges in return The trust cor
porations pay TO prevent tariff reform:
the railroads pay TO prevent being con
trolled; the banks and life insurance
companies pay because they are con-
trolled by the same financial interests,
and receive special favor and privileges
from the political managers.
How do democrats. who are paying
double for life insurance than what It Is
honestly worth and who own stock in
railroads and banks. like their money
being expended TO keep the corporations
IN power instead OF the larger dividends
that would be paid under an honest ad-
ministration?
The beef trust is still selling adul-
terated meat. At the instance OF the
League Island navy yard officials. the
agent Of Swift & Co., the Chicago pack
ers. has been arrested in Philadelphia
for food adulteration and bound over
by the magistrate in 81 900 bail. The
prosecution Is under the Pennsylvania
state law, there being no federal stat
ute under which persons selling i'm
pure food can be prosecuted.
II does not speak well for the pure
food commissioners of other states that
no similar efforts are being made to dis
cover the sale Of embalmed beef where
such laws for the protection of the
people ere on the statute books. II Is
hardly likely that artificial preserva-
tives are only used by the beef packers
on meat destined for Pennsylvania. Nor
is this an isolated case
According to a statement made 20
him by attorneys for Swift & Co. Com
missioner Warren says the concern ad-
mits, through its lawyers. that IL has
been selling meat in which artificial
which are prescribed BY
law have been placed Earring the last
year, Mr.. Warren states, Swift & Co.
have paid more than s2.Oc0 IN fines for
Of the pure food law of the