The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-05
INTEGRITY OF PRESS
ATTACKED BY DODD

] an advocate of the interests" as
against the people. became a part OF
the New York machine when It's own
ers were drawn into the closest con-
nection with the Equitable Life Insur-
ance Company: since that day The
Times-Dlspatch has not been Demo
cratic but a plutocratic. organ
AT the same time that high finance
| got it's grip upon the biggest paper in
I Virginia, d. A. Tompkins. OF Char
lotte. \. C.. was also put on the IA
nous Equitable board Tompkins is
Pennsylvania. who owns the Char
iotte Observer. and who has n hand
in all the high finance of North Caro-
nina. Not content with the subser-
Went support OF these leading organs
OF public opinion. Ryan. the tobacco
| magnate. the New York traction
wrecker. turned to the oldest Charles,
ton paper, the News and Courier. and
| made its editor also confidential adj
wiser to the same insurance company.
But this was not all other papers
were affiliated with these, and the
! railroad organs everywhere in the
/ South easily Joined the free and in
/ dependent press which Ryan and
Morgan were helping along 50 hand
somely. And all these papers are
again united in policy and practice
| with the reptile press of the North.
SO that now neither in Virginia nor
! in New York nor in Chicago IS there a
nee press. When YOU read In your
| morning paper an editorial. don't de-
! ceiVe yourself into thinking II ex-
presses the view of able. honest pub
/ licists who have your interest and
the common good at heart Far from
| H. They serve Hines. the lumber man
| In Chicago, the tobacco brigands Of
Ne" York, or Morgan. who robbed
other men Of theSs, property in the
| Southern Railway in 1898. Hard it is
| and l speak from experience to get
fair hearing for any good cause in
| our country to-day. l know good and
| able men in Virginia, leaders of the
| people. who have been belittled and
! maiisned by these conscienceless or
| sans OF Wall Street; and I thlns Bis
! narck's term reptile press fully an
| plies TO such papers.
Scores Party Machine.
! The next line OF attack upon vour
independence, your freedom, and yowr
property rights is through the party
machine. There are now, AMI there
VIII always be, party machines; but do
no. get INTO the habit of submitting
10 them because they seem to be nee
essary. The moment the voters ,et II
De seen that they rely on their organi.
cation the leaders of the organization
! become bosses. and the bosses are the
allies of the great corrupters of our
! american life, the millionaires who de-
/ sire TO control all parties and all the
agencies OF government
i hear you have a machine In yir-
| Einia. anu I have learned In Chicago
that its head always votes for rho
| interests of the lumber trust Lori
mer Is the Illinois representative of
! the lumber trust IN the United States
senate. And If you will read the
Congressional Record you will and
represent the lumber men. not the
people who elect them. 1t wasa matter
| OF great regret to me to learn that
the Old Dominion insists on keeping
one OF these Senators in Washington.
| In North Carolina there are two. and
In IeSas they have a very able man.
| who speaks and votes in the United
States Senate for lumber and wool
and Standard Oil. but never for the
people. INC
The people in our Southern country
are not fully aroused to the dangers
which confront the country, or the
great opportunity which awaits them.
10 not think that 1 am exaggerating,
| or that L have any personal interest
In the matter not identical with yours,
Nhat want to say is that your
| schools, your social organiza tions vour
Poitical parties are failures If they
permit the great interests, such as 7
nave already described, to seize these
agencies and make them machines
for corruptng the public, for buying
legislation. both State and national.
North Carolina Dishonored.
And yet such is the fact in Virginia
to-day and in many other Southern
States. In North Carolina the man
who organized the present Democratic
machine and who now votes for that
State in the United States Senate, is
none other than the tool of the Amer
lean Lumber Company. He voted for
the lumber schedule. when he had all
but sworn to vote against it; he voted
| with Senators Aldrich and Lorimer on
almost every phase OF the Payne Aid
rich tariff; he stands for protection.
and yet says he is Democrat They
nave begun sharp fight against him
down there. and ! hear he is likely to
be retired. which would clear the name
OF his State from this dishonor. The
same is true of Georgia to a less fla.
grant extent. and TeXas-well. we all
know what poor Texas endures in the
way of g Senator.
Thus we see the South has been
brought into the range of the banefuI
forces which threaten us In Chicago
with anarchy. Your press is no more
free than that of Chicago. Your party
organizations have become engines OF
oppression. and your railroads have
Joined hands with these to form a COM
lose your control of public life. All
over the South 1t is the same thing, the