The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-02-09
TAFT-HAY
FRAME-UP

BY A. W. Swenson, in Spokane Labor
World.
Pursuant to promise made last week,
will give the frame-up, politically, in
this state and then leave it to the in
telligence and understanding of the
trade unionists to determine whether
their interests lie with the expoiters in
the little game of piracy that it is pro-
posed to play in this state.
70 begin with. big business is in the
saddle in this country and likes the
place. The sporadic attempts of muck
rakers and well-meaning "reformers" to
unhorse the predatory band have not
met with enthusiastic favor on the part
of such big business" and as result
there has been a systematic effort on
the part of the corporate interests to
make such efforts less fashionable than
they recently have been. The first and
most important thing to attend to was
the closing of the press of the country
to the writings of muckrakers, the con
troll of such press in the interest of the
exploiters and the suppression of those
papers and periodicals that could not be
controlled. The result of this campaign
has been to practically muzzle tn epress,
with the result that it is now impossible
to expose any of the doings of corrupt
business.
The opening of the Panama canal will
mean wonderful period of development
for this state, rich as it is in natural
resources. To be in a position to con
troll and exploit that development is the
purpose of the Morgan RockefellerGug-
genheim bunch and that control is only
possible through control of the political
machinery of the state.
Following out the national program
the standpat republican machine, with
Taft as the nominal head, has entered
into an alliance with the alfalfa Cover
nor of this state, Hay. and the republican
machine, for the purpose of hog-tieing
and delivering to the Morganheim out
fit the resources of the state and pro
tecting such delivery by the use of tn,
political machinery of the state. r,
make this program a cinch an agree
ment was entered into between the own
ers of the big daily papers of the stat'
to further the designs of the standpat
ters. The state end of this combination
is headed by Sammy Perkins, former
private secretary to Mark Hanna an(
now owner of two daily papers in Ia
coma, one in Bellingham and two il
Olympia. Other newspapers in on the
play are the Seattle Times, the Seattl,
Post lntelligeneer the Spokesman-Re Re
view and Chronicle and one or two 9th
ers of lesser Importance. The most oi
these papers profess to be "progres.
sive." In reality they are reactionaries
of the most pronounced type.
This combination leaves but three
dailies in the state not under the con-
troll of the Taft t-Guggenheim-H Hay outfit
the Scripps publications, the Spokane
Press, the Seattle Star and the Tacoma
Times.
The stake to be played for is the
profit that will result from control of
the resources of the state, the machin-
cry is the state machine of the Hay
forces aided and abetted by the big
daily papers of the state, and the peo-
pie are the pawns in the game. Control
of the state by the Hay forces means
the Morganizing of the state, with the
resultant evil effects on the working peo-
pie of the state. The next United States
senator to be elected will be named by