The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-07-17

another case in which Long has two
votes out, and has his choice: One
vote was in congress and the other or
the floor of the convention. The vote
in congress was for Wall street.-the
vote in the convention, so far as Long
goes, was to catch votes.
The next charge reads:
When it came to repeating the clause
of the law providing for the Imprisonment,
of rebaters Long voted (on page 2159, vol
ume SO, part 81 to save the hide of wal
street.
His defense is that only five men
voted for it. Yet only eight men
voted with Long as against 260 against
him when he voted ION page 6501 in
the Record of the seth congress)
against the labor unions. He will
stand with the minority for and in ia
vor 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 re-
versed his vote, and when Wall street
surrendered, Long voted to put re-
baters in Jail. 1t would be interesting
to know which vote he stands on.
The next charge reads:
When an attempt was made to keep the
coal lands of the Five Civilized 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 people through railroad rates.
Longs defense is that the President
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 railroads. What
the President did is not at issue. 1t
is what Long did.
The next charge reads:
On page 2551 Long took the Wall street
end of the ship subsidies proposition and
voted to give the trust-owned and trust
controlled ships $40, 600 900 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 coat-tails de-
Tense. 1t occurs on the proposition to
amend the bill so that this $40,000,000
would help to build up a naval reserve
and on this amendment the Republican
senator from Missouri and the senator
from Nebraska and both the Republic
an senators from Wisconsin voted for
the amendment, but Long wanted all
that forty millions for the trust-owned
ships and so Long voted against the
amendment and then cunningly
wrapped the drapery of the Presidents
coattails about him and lay down to
pleasant dreams by quoting Roose-
velt's letter upon another vote.
The next charge reads:
On page $3.50 we find Long voting to
give the coal roads the longest possible
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 knew
that the panic was coming when he
voted as he did, he should have told
his Kansas constituents, and not kept
the information for Wall street.
The next charge reads:
On pages 66279 Long is recorded as
voting against Jail sentence for rebaters
to make it easy for lawbreakers who
are rich.
His defense is that he voted for a
jail sentence for lawbreakers in an
other amendment to the same bill,
which is true. But the fact remains
that Long gave Wall street the easier
bill, and voted against the better
one.
On page 6571 Long is found voting
against empowering the interstate COM
the long and short haul principle shall be
applied. Wall street desires to have no
i'm the name of justice, so Long
voted with Wall street.
Longs defense of that vote is that
it would hurt Kansas shippers. New
er having shipped over a carload of
freight in his life Long is not an ex-
pert We will therefore let ]. S.
George, president of the Hutchinson
wholesale grocery. who ships scores
Of carloads daily, answer Long. Mr..
George says: Il challenge Senator
Long to point to a single rate on
wheat, corn, oats, flour, hogs or cattle
from a single Kansas producing point
go miles west of the Missouri river)
10 any seaport or consuming district |
Of the Eastern or Southeasta rn states |
on which is a lower rate than the rate |
from other producing points lying be-
tween the Kansas point and the des- |
Iination. Kansas is in the center of |
he continent, and the railroads have |
seen to it that the crest of the wave |
Of high rates on all transcontinental |
traffic is reached in Kansas. The fight |
10 prevent legislation in favor of Civ |
ng Kansas her rightful rate was be-
gun by the railroads to preserve the |
integrity of the basing line ystem |
1.-THE Missouri river rate) of making |
'ates so that they would concentrate !
great industrial centers (outside of |
which would force the haul
ng of raw material from hundreds of |
niles of surrounding (Kansas) terri
DRY, causing 1t to return by a still |
higher rate in manufactured form.
hus securing to them a double haul"
This is why Long said shamelessly in
Smporia: so long as l continue In
congress l shall vote against such
measures" He wants to keep Kansas
ndustrially the creature of the rail-
Dads to give them the double haul,
o make the double profit.
The next charge reads:
When the railroads were trying to pre-
'ent ticket scalping, Long again voted
With Wall street and against the people.
His vote is on page 2469 of the Record Of