New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1906-02-24

tries against any aud all legislation
seeking to lesson the oppressive
burdens imposed by the Wander
hiItS upon the people. He managed
it all most ably. He grew more
and more respected. BY generous,
even wholesale, distribution of
passes, by cultivatiug' editors and
reporters, by ingratiating himself
with small politicians aud the in
fiueutial men of little towns aud
villages. by making popular ad-
dresses and after dinner speeches.
by the thousand and one devices
which his ingenious mind and his
expansive temperament and his
passion for public applause sng-
gested, he made himself a popular
figure. Everyone knew he was the
auderhiit's $ creature. Those who
saw him in the presence of the
members of the family to which he
was Soul-vassal, whether the elder
members or the little children,
half-pityingIy Gespised him for his
trucking, despiSed him the more
that he was beyond question a man
of unusual ability and mentality.
The wife of one of the younger
Nanderbilts refused to have him at
her table.
81 do not let my butler sit down
with me, said she to the head of
the house; "Why should | let
yours'"
But in general he was liked.
The contempt for him was tolerant.
He was regarded as "A "good fellow,
for the kind" And so he got
what he sought His persistent
and good-humored and clever push
ing of himself in public produced
valuable results to him and lnvalu-
able results to the Vanderbilts.
1t would be moderate state
ment that the geniality of Depew
has cost the people of New York
State a thousand million dollars,
besides the infamous grants of the
rights TO tax the public in perpetu-
lty. The Vanderb it's and their
clique kept much but it is charac-
teristic of plutocracy that it dam
ages and destroys much more than
it carries away, like a bear in bee
hive. "Our Chauncey's" genial
ity is responsible, to cite Que of a
graver kind of instances, for the
tunnel exit from New York city,
criminal nuisance which the Van
derbilts have maintained all these
years in british disregard of the
comfort of the people, aud at an
sacrifice of human lives.
Depew's popularity with the pub
lie so 10th to believe that zone may
smile and smile, aud be villain"
his "pull" with the too good-na-
tured editors andreporters through
out the state have gracefully cloak
ed the ignorant and greedy and
criminal policy which the Wander
bllts have always pursued, and
which, by the way, has cost them
many more millions than they put
In the bag. Our history offers no
more striking instance of one. man
power than the wide paralyzing ef-
feet and the vast and sinister eeon-
omlc results of the studied and
geniality of this sycophant
to a Wander bilts have given him
scant and contemptuons crumbs.
After forty years of industrious,
and, to his masters, enor-
lnously profitable self-degradation
be has not more than i've millions.
avarlcious aud saving though he
has been. And they tossed him
he senatorship as if it had been a
charity. or all the creatures of
he Vanderbilts, none has been
more versatile, more willing or
more profitable to his users than
)epew. Yet he has not FIVE mil
ion dollars and blasted name to
console his old age, while his users
ire III honor and count their mil
ions by the score.