Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-04

had its birth with the first rumhhngs of tariff revision" declared a man who. from his connection with the Helm committee. has tound it nee essary to get to bottom facts. a certain little eastern state. where safety was assured by the absolute republican machine control of aA Of the machinery of the law, the plans were laid A stupendous fund was collected from Interests f2r and wide and the national jackpot was created.
 Master Hand at washington.
 This Jackpot was plt into the care Of master hand. Naahing- ton became his headquarters. To him the outlying IntereIts reported the situation in states in which they had their lareer investment and thefe- fore more or less power. In llhno.s and several other states which J corId name, bus will not at this time. elections were pending.
 "The local interests were called uron 10 estimate the chance of elec- ting the right man. Where the chances were not good they were asked to estimate the cost Of better ing them. The aunognts asked were asslIred and seats bought for sena tors. who would remember who had done the buying.
 s'peef and lumber spoke up for Illinois. They placed the cost in this state at S1eo,0o0.
 Tn this way the interests got a senate to their liking. As the senate record shows. it was senate which nared. twisted, pruned, traasposed and otherwise manipulated the al phatetical schedules.
 s'But don't make the mistake or thinking that the tariff b'll was de- cided on bv congress- The partiei- pants in the national iackFot' set tied the vital questions in advance.
 Lumber, for instance. came lhIo Sra tarin meeting and said:
 we control Senators Lorimer, Stephenson and Burrows-Illinois- Wisconsin. Michigan. We must have a tariff on lumber We'll trade with you
 steel trotted out it's senators. mentioned it's tariff needs and cen oed. Well trade with you And wool brought out it's senators, lisn-
 
 e1 it's mo7est demands and again the echo, Wen trade with vol. Trade they did all dcwn the line. and the result was a tariff wonder 1 fully revised the tariff which the ] democrats now promise to destroy Hiuh Political Finance.
 To return to the Lorimer election ! and the resultant Helm committee r,g4 Q, ~ | the Springfield deal seems to be a l piece Of high political finsnce. which ! by comparison makes dull the GOV cred carpet tacks of "Get-rich-quick Wsllingforl."
 Lorimer had been elected and 1 shown Himself "ri~ht" on the tariff i IL had cost some Illinois money and 1 more money from the national jack | pot" It had cost the tire and uerv ous strain O. several individual coi | iectors, treaSurers and paymasters | Many were the smaller interests that would profit.
 These smaller interests had con 1 tributed nothing directly-a state O fact which hardly seemed right t' the collectors. Why not "come acros
 on a plan Of reimbursement No
 body ever keerg books on SIch del
 icate transaction Wise men do no
 repeat, even though indignaDt at be
 ing approached. It looked hFe e2 ceedingly easy money" to sell Mi
 Lorimer's seat over again Thus it was that a S10.000 menta subscription list was orene3 an i various Chicago people were duly ar
 preached in their offices, on th street and ir fashionable cluhs- N ] one will ever know how many UT der pressure paid over their 5000 , iu this absolutely unique sale. Tn . Helm committee will prohahlv fin . some more or them before it ends 1t
 prote. In the parlance Of the "ee ] Tich-quiclx-' evTerts. who manipula
 ed them, they are -boobs" who fell , even 10 the extent of buying som'
 thing they cid not own.
 , In one instance the scheme of r'
 imbursement" overreached itsel ! | Clarence s. Funk. general manage ? of the International Harvester con D rany, was so indignant that he tail 2 ed. Hc whfsnerei his indiEnstic , privately at first. but finally. to say , a friend. talked out in meeting. an ; a HeI1 committee meeting at tha P The One Bad Guess. D. Mir. Funk seems to be the only ba 70 guess tho 'Ieimbursers" made. 4 !. least # there were others they hay .- not Indicated their righteous indi | nation to tbe Helm committee.
 The argument on the writs of h.
 beas corpus secured by Presider ! Edward TiIden of the Nationi E Packing company and his bankers ? l scheduled to begin before Judge Pc I it at T o'clock tomorrow morninl r Ex-Jadge Nathaniel C. Sears an { John Barton Payne will endeavor
 keep the trio permanently out { 2 Springfield.
 John l. Healy. srecial attorne
 for the Helm committee. will arg : 1 the sufficieIcy Of the senate's wa T ant for the tree men and ask tn; E | they be handed over 10 assistal