Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-20

days papers as saying he would have
been better treated personally, II ne had
said nothing and not attempted TO bring
out the rottenness of this bribery busi-
ness.
If he had lived as long as l have
in this country he would know that
successful politicians, those who hold on
and keep their places In Washington,
are those who fight nothing and nobody,
but those people at home who are brave
enough to want something done, and are
excited over the lack of It, in those
who hold the positions only to draw
their pay.
When l was in washington, last May,
heard a casual remark that a. Georgian
was staying in the city, and expecting
to grab nearly 100000 for pretended legal
service to Indian, and because my ex-
perience has made me alert could UNI
derstand that there were assembled a
crowd of vultures who were ripe and
ready to destroy Poor Lo! just as soon
as congress gave these shifty men a
hold on the money of the red men. There
are evidences all about that lobbyists are
the chief white men in the nation at
large, and it is a well known fact that
silence is bought as well as work for
or against legislation.
1t may not happen until after l am
gone, but 1 prophesy that there will be
disclosures in the FUTURE in regard to
Fleeing the Indians which will equal
the graft of the Credit Mobilier, or the
tell-tale letters and kilograms OF the
Pacific railroad lobby.
These Indians are the wards of the
nation and Senator Gore understands
their helplessness before crafty intriguers
and he has plead with the senate to
save his people from this graft and rob-
berry, but the internal force of gold
seems to move prominent men toward
acts and purposes, both disgraceful and
deadly.
The house and senate has generally a
lot of men in both houses who are so
afraid of losing their positions, and so
intent on selfish interests. that they will
actually see drawer men so to martyr
dom before theyiwill stand upright in the
support of truth and honesty. 1t is evil
dent that bribery has a strong pull in
the senate of the United States when
these legislators wink at such wrong
doingl
NORTH PoLE-TwIDDLE,T wADDLE
Since Explorer Cook has recovered his
memory and knows he did not touch
the north pole Explorer Peary mas been
endeavoring to show US that he got
there. but the country has but little
respect or confidence in such north pole
twaddle.
If anybody has ever been there and
set up a post with some sort of peculiar
tar on the pole. and had these explo-
rers brought home some of this north
pole tar on their clothes or their fin
gers. then seeing would be believing,
but nobody has set up pole, and pro-
vided the tar, and nobody can tell
whether Cook or Peary ever did get 10
the pole or touched the end of it.
l hope the country will have some
rest now from vain declarations and
rival explorers
Nobody ever expects to go there to
live, perhaps no, animal life could bear
the arctic apex of this old world or
ours, and ii has always seemed 10 me
a waste of money and sacrifice of hui
man life to make those venturesome
trips. read McClintock's narrative
50-odd years ago, when he searched for
the remains of Sir John Franklin's III
fated expedition, and since tnar time /
have had little sympathy for foodhardy
adventurers
/ feel the same way about Alpine
climbers, where hundreds of people have
lost their lives in a vain effort to climb
higher on icy mountains than some
body else had ever climbed
/ suppose there will be fools as well
as the poor to the end of time. We
will always have them with us, but i
am satisfied the public should have a
rest from Cook and Peary. We have
been surfeited and neither OF the Two
will ever regain public confidence, be-
cause they have nothing to show Tor
their respective claims and controver-
sizes