The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-11

ur republic.
WRITTEN ON CONGRESSIONAL
PAPER.
THE letter is from the Standard Oil
Congressional spy, Joseph
!. Sibley. 1t is written on the letter
aper of Congress and is headed 10
eph c. Sibley, Chairman Committee on
House of Representa-
ives, United States, Washington, Mar.
, 1906.
my Dear a: The Illness of
member of my family has prevent
eo my coming to New York. Sena-
tor B. was to have gone over with
me. / think he will go any way,
as he has business there. | had a
conversation with an important of
fetal yesterday, and he told me
there was but one thing to do, and
that was to start back fire. Like
myself, he is much alarmed, and as
a member of the reigning family
his hand and tongue are tied. He
thinks the work should be done ia
the education of public sentiment
between now and the meeting of
Congress in October. 1t has, |
think, been decided to convene
Congress in extra session at that
time, though the Speaker will try
to have it go over until Novem
Der if he can't do better. l will
know in a day or two how he
succeeds.
Long (SenatoD and Curtis IRE
presentative) are the strong men
in the Kansas delegation. l have
explained matters to them, and
think their influence will count
some when they go home. Camp
bell is clever boy, has no strong
points yet developed. He seeks
notoriety, but is harmless i'll him
self.
This agitation, in the language
of the official started from the
top and has run it's course. It is
not a deep-seated, profound con-
viction of wrong. The one thing
is to get delay until temperate
, action can be secured. think the
pendulum will swing to the other
side after a while. but l do not
want the devil to pay before it
gets back.
can efficient literary bureau is
NEEDED, not for a day or a crisis,
but a permanent and healthy con-
troll of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
and kindred avenues. 1t will cost
money, but will be the cheapest in
the end and can be made self-sup-
porting The next four years is,
more than any previous epoch, to
determine the future of the coun-
try No man values public opinion
or fears it so much as Roosevelt.
No man seeks popularity so much
as he. Mild reproof or criticism
of his policy would nearly paralyze
him. Today he hears only the
chorus of a rabble, and he thinks
it is public sentiment. don't
know whether the industrial cor
porations have enough at stake
to justify a union Of forces for
concerted action. 1t seems to me
necessary. Sincerely yours,
SHELLEY"
BAILEY ALWAYS THERE.
THE Senator B. mentioned in tn
letter is, of course, our old friend JC
Bailey of Texas. Without doubt, /;
Mr.. Sibley says, Bailey would con
any way. He had business there.
is impossible to open up and crookt
Granny of Standard Oil associate
without finding Mr. Bailey in son
dark corner, blinking with beady ey
at the unwelcome light.
THE important part of this lette
however, is not the part that revea
Senator Bailey, a Democratic friend
the Standard Oil, or Mr. Sibley, a r
publican friend of the Standard Oil.
is the part which reveals the plan
control the great news organization
of the country, the Associated Pre-
and kindred avenues to influence pu
lie opinion. In that way Mr.. Siblt
thinks the public opinion can be cri
icised and controlled.
1T is undoubtedly possible for i
dustrial corporations and transport
ton companies, with the Standard {
at the head. to bring about "A uniC
of forces for concerted action TIL
union of forces would enable them
control many of the great avenues
publicity,
BUREAU FOR DECEPTION OF Pc
PIE.
Think of the joy of the Standa
Oil in 'Self-supporting organizati'
which would daily deceive all the CT
zens of the United States. No mo
subsidies to newspapers and magazin
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