The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-02-01
E NEws-HERALD H1LLsBoRo THURSDAY FEBRUARY l. looe.
search-Iight Turned on Senate.

Search-Lignt Tufneo on senate.
Already the country is awakened to
the fact that amid the heartrending
exposures of graft in high places the
greatest disclosures are yet to come.
1.-THE Treason of the senate" will be
set forth in the future number of the
Cosmopolitan c Magazine, beginning
with the case of Depew in the March
number of that magazine. The whole
matter is in the hands of the able
and honest advocate of straightfor-
wardness, Mr.. David Graham Philips,
and despite the cunning of Depew In
COVERING up his tracks, Mr.. Phillips
has succeeded in Tightening the seDa-
tors own coils about that gentleman
until nothing but his own parrot-like
personality can utter a defense. In
an editorial foreword in the February
issue the Cosmopolitan outlines the
plan of the series.
"A searching and unsparipg spot
light, directed By the masterly hand
of Mr. Phillips, will be turned upon
ach of the iniquitous figures that
walk the Senate stage at the national
Capitol. This convicting story of
revelation, to be told In several chap
ters, and to run we'll through the
magazine year, has been called The
Treason of the Senate, for the reason
that that is fit and logical title for
this terrible arraignment of those
who, sitting In the seats of the mighty
at Washington, have betayed the
public to that cruel and vicious Spirit
of Mammom which has come to domi
nate the nation.
"The truth told in the courts and in
public print about the senators now
under Indictment, as well as the facts
collected by Mr.. Phillips against many
of their corrupt colleagues, proves be.
yond doubt that these men of the
toga, selected by their state legisla-
lures to represent the people, are
re ally the retainers of the money
power. What American Is there so
simple. minded, so innocent in his pa
triotic faith, who does not believe
that a petition signed by million of
the common people would not have
half as much influence in the Senate
as the mere nod of Havemeyer, an
Armour or a Morgan?
Constructive though it has been
toward nearly all corrective legisla-
tion aimed at the further usurpation
of power by the lawless plutocrats,
the Senate hasalways cheerfully voted
money for the building of warships,
for coast.defense works and heavy ar
mament for the protection of the
people of the nation against foreign
aggression. But the question now
arises: Who Is to protect us from the
Senate? This question comes with
peculiar force while five senators are
un der indictment, others are publicly
charged with betraying their trusts,
and at least one has been permitted
to draw a regular salary from the
government while under conviction
for hagrant violation of the federal
laws.
"Who, then, is to protect the people
but the press
"The Cosmopolitan is ready to do its
share, and by the presentation of Mr..
Phillips Treason of the Senate, 1t
will probably do a more conspicuous
act of exposure of corruption than
has ever before been attempted. For
in all the literature of exposure no
snch series of articles has ever been
presented to the public. Well-mean-
ing and amazingly industrious persons
writing without inspiration and with
out that gift of selection which is half
the art of the great author, have been
able to pile before magazine readers
indiscriminate masses of arid facts,
of little interest save to the technical
mind. Some of them are, indeed, SO
dry as almost to cause one to embrace
the hagon. But Mr.. Phillips, from
the wealth of material at hand, and
to be dug up out of the dark, will be
able to select such picturesque, ar
restive ard interest-compelling mat.
ter as will make this series the most
vascular and vlrile, as we'll as the most
notable of all thus far printed.
"When, four months ago, our inten-
tion of engaging the author of The
Cost The Plum Tree and The
Deluge,' to write this series was made
known to a famous modern thinker
and writer, he said with ethusiasm:
" No better selection could have
been made. Mr.. Phillips writes in a
most interesting and convincing man
ner. His subject is far bigger than
Lawson's. 1t Is, In fact, the biggest
of any before the public to-day. His
work will be a tremendous reform
stroke
sour readers may rest assured that
Mr.. Phillips widely announced open
ing chapter, on Chauncey M. Depew,
will be we'll worth waiting for. Sena-
tor Depew's possible eresignationbefore
February 10th, the date of the publi-
cation of the March Cosmopolitan,
will not affect our determination of
printing this slashing review of the