The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-29

present and then tried vainly to get
the bill, which purported to be the
old bill, through. If Longs vote was
right the Republican platform this
year, which declares in favor of re-
stricting the issue of stocks and bonds
10 wrong. Here is another case in
which Long has two Yates out and has
his choice: One vote was in congress
and the other on the floor of the con-
vention. The vote in Congress was
for Wall street.-the vote in the con-
vention was to catch votes, so far as
Long is concerned.
The next charge reads:
p. When 1t came to repeating the
clause of the law providing for the
Imprisonment Of rebaters, Long voted
ON page 215s, volume SO, part p
to save the hide of Wall street"
His defense is that only five men
voted for it. Yet only eight men
voted with Long as against $50
against him when he voted-on page
6501 in the Record of the Fifty-sixth
congress against the labor unions.
He Will stand with the minority for
and in favor of the powers that prey
upon the people, but when he votes
for the people he has to surrender
with Wall street and have a majority
along to keep him company. In 1906
he reversed his vote, and when Wall
street surrendered Long voted to put
rebaters in Jail. 1t would be interest
ing to know which vote he stands on.
The next charge reads:
When an attempt was made to
keep the coal lands of the five civil
lized tribes out of the hands of the
railroads, Long voted with Wall street
and held that Wall street should hold
the lands and levy tribute on the peo-
pie through railroad rates"
Longs defense is that the presi-
dent did not take the coal lands off
the market as he took western coal
LANDS off the market. But what has
that to do with the fact that Long
voted to sell the lands to the rail-
roads? What the president did is not
at issue. 1t is what Long did.
The next charge reads:
'On page 255D Long took the Wall
street end Of the ship subsidies pro-
position and voted to give the trust
owned and trust controlled ships 40
million dollars as against all other
ships"
Longs defense is the presidents
coattails, which he seeks as hart
panteth for the water brooks. The
vote in question did not occur on the
general proposition of ship subsidies,
as Long says it did in his coattails
defense. 1t occurs on the proposition
to amend the bill so that this 40 mil
lion dollars would help to build up a
naval reserve, and on this amendment
souri, and from Nebraska and both the
Republican senators from Wisconsin
voted Tor the amendment, but Long
wanted all that 40 million for the trust
owned ships. and so Long voted
against the amendment and then cum
ningly wrapped the drapery of the
presidents coattails about him by
quoting Roosevelt's letter on another
vote than the one in question.
The next charge reads:
ION page 6532 we find Long voting
to give the coal roads the longest pos
sible time to sell their coal lands by
which they wrest, tribute from the
people and crush competition in coal"
Longs defense is that events have
justified him, and that the time has
been extended. The time was extend
ed because of the panic, and for no
other reason on earth. If Long krHw
the panic was coming vhens l1es voted
as he did, heshould have told his Kar1-
sas constituents. and not kept the m
formation for Wall street"
The next charge reads:
"On pages 6627-9 Long is recorded as
voting against Jail sentence for re-
ers who are srich."
HIS defense is that he voted for Jail
sentence for lawbreakers in another
amendment. to the same bill which is
true. But the fact remains that Long
gave Wall street the softer bill, and
voted against the harsher one.
The next charge reads:
"On page 6571 Long is found votirg
against empowering the interstate
commerce commission with power to
say. how the long and short haul prin-
ciple shall be applied: Wall street de-
sires to have no meddling in the name
of justice so Long voted with Wall
street"
Longs defense of that vote is that
it would hurt Kansas shippers. Never
having SHIPPED over a car load of
freight in his life. Long is not an ex-
pert. We will therefore let ]. S.
George. president of the Hutchinson
Wholesale Grocery company, who
ships scores of car leads daily, an
swer Long. Mr. George says: Il
challenge Senator Long to point to 3
single rate on wheat, corn, oats. flour,
hogs or cattle from h single Kansas
the Missouri river to any seaport or
consuming district, of the eastern or
southern states which is a lower rate
than the rate from other producing
points lying between the Kansas point
and the destination. Kansas is In the
center of the continent, and the rail-
reads have seen to 1t that the crest of
the fyave of high rates on all trans
continental traffic is reached in Kan
sas The fight to prevent legislation
in favor of giving Kansas her rightrui
rate was begun by the railroads to
preserve the Integrity Of the basing
making rates SO that they would con-
centrate great Industrial centers (out-
side of Kansas) which would force the
hauling of raw material from nun
dreds of miles of surrounding exam
sas) territory. causing it to return at
a still higher rate in manufactured
form, thus securing to them a double
haul" .ss-
This is why Long said shamelessly
in Emporia: so long as 1 continue In
congress shall vote against sucn
measures" He wants to keep Kansas
industrially the creature of the rail-
roads to give them the double haul. to
make the double profit.