The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-29

bright colors, '-to hide the shells after
sucking the eggs White says that
makes the Indian undesirable as a
representative of Kansas interests in
Washington.
Again Curtis is listed with the in
terests, is branded as the errand boy Of
the money powers and a worker whom
Aldrich and Penrose and Guggenheim
could depend on when they needed help.
Again the Emporia editor goes to the
records to show that Curtis voted for
the Rhode Island and the Wall Street
interests and against the interests of
the Kansas farmer. Again the tariff
question is paraded and again Curtis is
force the Canadian Reciprocity treaty.
White says in part:
An Industrious Egg Sucker
Bill and 1 suck eggs" said a certain
he hides the Shells" which being Hbe.-
ally translated means that the senator
was one of those plausible men who are
always affable to their constituents and
reliable for the interests that are robbingy
their constituents. The iniquities and in
equities of this world have their basis in
the interpretations and administration of
laws The men no take more than they
earn in this world take it in pennf IS
from millions who get less than they earn,
and it is all done in a perfectly legal and
ordinary way. To do this the great pre-
datory interests are unconsciously allied.
All the railroads and trusts and tariff
beneficiarieS and money brokers who are
goug1ng the people stand together. At
tack the wool tariff and the railroads come
to the relief of the wool trust Attack
the unjust discrimination of the railroads
and the trusts and tariff beneficiarIes
rush to the support of that vested wrong.
Thus 1t happens that organized labor
seeking justice in congress has to fight
the very men whom labor is told by
the bosses to send to congress in order to
promote business. Congressman and SEN
ators come home, blaTney the people,
snake hands with the voters, palaver to
hat nj ha nF
labor people, or farmers, or colored peo-
pie, or bankerS-and thus get votes. But
amiable chaps go back to Washington,
and wait upon the beck and call of the
big financial interests that always stand
together to legalize the penny plunderinG
of the millions. This is sucking eggs.
And of all the members of the big order
of Amalgamated Egg Suckers in Wash
ington led by Penrose, Guggenheim, Lori |
mer and Smoot, Charles Curtis, the senior |
senator from Kansas, has more shells to
days work. He is one of the most will
ing workers in all the egg-sucking in |
dustry.
Curtis lifts his eyes to heaven and says |
the Payne-Aldrich law is better than the |
Dingley law. 1t is. But if Senator Curtis |
had represented Kansas instead of Wall |
street the Payne-Aldrich act might have |
been decent measure and he would have |
no egg shells in his dark, curly mustache. |
''All through his record is that trail OF |
the eggshells-trying to get away with d |
vicious record by covering it with an oc- |
casional decent vote Just as he voted TO J
draw the teeth of the Borah child labor /
bill, and then having made 1t a weak bill /
claims credit for his favorable vote
Whether he is advocating child labor leg
islation; or voting for Lortmer. IT IS all the
same. Two votes are registered for Lori
mer and one against him but the one
against him after Wall street had re
leased its men-after Lorimer was a gomez |
anyway That is hiding the shells.
Here in Kansas it is the same way.
His real friends are Chester 1. Long, F.
T0rrr1 Nv1N GF7fr nav ATHrlxr
out the one-lung asthmatic old junk |
heap of a machine with a big exhaust
and no power Curtis would be covered 1
in Oblivion with his own eggshellS- Ye1
he does not acknowledge even his friends
openly. But he has never denounced the
work of Dave Mulvane in the national
committee He is tied up with the crowd
that tried for two years to beat the pri-
mary law tried to beat the anti-pass law |
to beat the public utilities law. tried t.
beat every measure that has freed Kan
sas from the machine, and yet he does
not dare denounce these measures which
his friends fought, for fear the pople will |
overWhelm him What a pile of eggsbells
he has-what a life of political deception
and pretense he is living.
Curtis the Errand Boy.
And why? Simply that he may serve
again the big plundering interests that are
pinching the pennies out the pockets or
high tariffs and robber rates. Every
financial wrong has its political errand |
boy. Every economic wrong is sustained
by some amiable plausible handshakfng
politician who works in private to legal
ize the wrong and in public to deIude the
people who are paying him. 1t is the
gentle art of sucking eggs and hiding the
shells that keeps just recompense for so
ciaI and economic service in the hands of
those who get what they do not earn and |
from the hands of those who earn what /
they do not get. Senator Charles Curtis /
of Kansas is part of a big plan to per- /
petuate the wrong under which the peo-
pie are moving He is part of the system /
not big part, only an errand boy; out /
he is all that Kansas people have to cor
tribute. How long will he draw our pay.
take our wages and betray us2 Angus /
every Republican has his remedy. After /