The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-04
BURTON TO PRINT A PAPER.
Ex-senator To Tell of Evils Which
Menace the People.

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United States senator who was re-
Gently released from the Ironton,
Mo-, jail after serving a 6ve-months
sentence for violation of federal
statute in using his official position
TO further the interests of the Rialto
Grain Company, arrived in Chicago
Friday morning and in an interview
attacked those who were responsible
for his conviction
Senator Burton said that the object
of his visit was to purchase machin-
er for his new paper, which he pro-
poses to start in Abilene. Kansas,
his home town The name OF the pa
per will be the Home Rule and it will
be devoted solely politics. 1t will
be issued weekly and contributions
will be received from time to time
by noted political writers. Senator
Barton will be editor in chief.
While the senator said that he had
no axes to grind and that the paper
will not be issued to serve personal
ends, he intimated that articles will
be published from time to time that
will throw much light on the meth
DDS of enactlng legislation in Wash
ington and that the policy of the
paper will be to serve the best in
terests of the public. He said:
"The trouble in this country is that
too much power is centralized in the
president and congress and the peo-
pie are given no consideration said
the ex-senator 1--WE hear much about
the misery that the great money
kings like Rockefeller and Carnegie
have wrought, but want to tell you
that the congress of the United States
is responsible for present conditions.
The system on which our government
is founded is wrong and the result is
that when men are elected to posi-
tons of responsibility they carry out
policies that have been dictated by
the president or certain members of
congress. The peoples interests are
actually disregarded and greed for
power seems to characterize the
members of congress.
"The president has too much pow
err He should have no power in leg.
slation, but it is fact that all poll
cies affecting the government are die
tated by him and his handful Of
henchmen in Washington abide by
his wishes. Washington or any of
the other presidents during the early
period of our history never dreamed
of becoming absolute rulers, but it
seems that since the time of Lincoln
the aggressions of each succeeding
president have become astounding
until today the nation is virtually
ruled by few.
Three or four mensiR the house
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get together and push through any
measure that the president may want
enacted They seem to lose all sight
of the peoples interests in their mad
passion for power.
"And then we hear the walls against
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hill, Hartman
and others every now and then when
financial conditions are disturbed
The fact of the matter is that the
principles of our government are
wrong and we can not say that these
men are dishonest because they ac-
quired their holdings through the
working of a governmental system
that is faulty. The American peo-
pie may not expect any change in
condition until the power of govern
ment is concentrated in the hands OF
the people and wrested from the men
who sit in congress. The fights be-
tween the railroad kings may be lik-
ened to the differences among con-
gressmen-it is struggle for power