Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-08
FAKE lELEGRAMS' ARE SENT ]
LaFoIlette DiscIoses to Sena. tors One Method Employed
 By 'the Interests"
TRUSTS ARE PROTECTED
 IN SPITE OF ALL COST
Especial to Review.)

WASHINGTON, July 7.-If you were United States senator and should receive a number of telegrams from persons residing in widely scattered sections of your state and each of the telegrams should read precisely alike-all of them asking you to sup port a schedule of the tariff bill that would advance the cost of living to the poor-would you suspect there was a nigger in the woodpile?
 Every member of the senate has had such an experience and an ex- perience not consigned to one sched- ule.'
 The custom of the standpatters is to read one or two of these telegrams on the floor of the senate and to re- mark that he has received any num- Der of telegrams along the same line. These telegrams are used as justifica- tion of a vote on whatever schedule the missives refer to.
 LaFollette of Wisconsin exposed the trick.
 LaFollette first read for preserva- ton in the Congressional Record the following letter, signed by dealer of woolens in a western state:
 Dear sir: You will some time next week receive twenty-five to fifty telegrams from Wisconsin saying something to this effect
 Earnestly request your support of Schedule K, duties on wastes, yarn, cloths, dress goods, as reported by FL nance committee, as important to wool growers as duty on raw wool"
 "The other man being the subject of attack is Senator Beveridge. who. at a given signal. will receive large line of letters, also telegrams from his state. emanating from the same source. You may use this informa- tion in any manner that you desire. but 1t must not be known that it emanates from me l merely thought would apprise you of whence ema- mates the great clamor to protect wool"
 trithin the stipulated time. as Sem ator LaFollette had been warned. the them read as follows:
 Earnestly request your support Schedule K, duty on wastes, yarns. cloths, dress goods. as reported by Finance committed as important to wool growers as duty on raw wool
 T will read enough to show their said LaFollette. T will not read the names of the men or the com panies that signed them. because l think that they have been misled into signing and sending them. and l do not want to subject them to embar. 
 q remember wh,ll the Aldrich cur rency bill was pending before the bill that was passed in the of the great group banks en- gagged in speculative finance-it was possible for them to enlist the small bankers of the country to wire senators to oppose amendments framed in the interest of the commer- cial banks. So l know the power Of this system as it >reaches out over these United States. It is all one great system. Behind all legislation of this character is one great power"
 MT. Warren: (standpatter) The sen ator feels that the men who sent him the telegrams do not know their busi- ness, and he withholds their names?
 Mir. LaFollette: I know enough about methods of the system to war rant the belief that there are many people who do not know how they are being preyed upon by the special interests of this country. And want to believe if I can that there are men on this floor who do not know the interests they are really serving.
 Mir. Gallinger of New Hampshire: Who are they?
 Mir. Warren of Wyoming: Who are they:
 MT. LaFollette. have spent two or .hree years in an effort to make that 1ery plain. tf
 Mir. Warren: (sarcastically) Good, Mr. LaFollette: When l came here l stood alone (amone the republicans) n this chamber. Now there are near y a dozen men (progressive republi- cans) who stand with me. The re- suits have been pretty good. Mir. Warren: Good,
 Mir. LaFollette: And they will be better, let me say to the senator from Wyoming. The lines of those who vittingly or unwittingt serve great interests will be further broken. not | ,uly in the middle west and the far vest, where great progress has been made, but in the east as well. I think | know what I am talking about
 Note: Senator LaFollette voted | Igainst any advances In the schedule to in the fake telegrams: : wuw u