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(By MARK SULLIVAN, in Collier's Weekly.)
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When a coiiRrcBSinnn or a sena
tor nsks you to ro-clect him because
ho was Biicccssful in petting feiloral
monoy spent in your district, look
out. There's a, reason.
Sonator Burkott is flooding Ne
lintakn. with a. Tiietiiro of himself
standing on a platform, and some of
tho conspicuous planks in the plat
form arc these: i c
A million dollars for Nebraska
public buildings.
Over 3300 pensions for Nebraska
veterans.
Buildings and improvements at Ft.
Crook and Ft. Robinson, Nebraska.
Missouri river improvements.
National school of forestry in Ne
braska. What Senator Burkott means i?
that ns a senator ho got all these
things for Nebraska, and therefore
hn thinks Nebraska ouuht to re-elect
liim ns a mark of gratitude. And
Senator Burkott is mcrclv typical
Scores of congressmen ask for re
election and get it, bccnuso of their
success and effectiveness at the led
oral pok trough.
If tho voter will reflect a momen
ha will understand that thero is an
other sido to this situation. It
stated tersely and accurately by a
virile local Diner in California, the
Ukiah Times, in an editorial entitled,
"How the Trusts Bribe tho reople":
"It is managed this way: Mr. Can
non and the 'leaders' make up a list
of tho congressmen that have been
especially serviceable to them. This
means the men in congress who do
just as they are told, vote exactly as
directed and can be depended on at
all times in any emergency. Of
course, these are the men the trusts
and others of the privileged class
want back, so they go to them and
say:
"'Mr. So-and-So, how do you
stand in your district? What are
your chances of being elected
again V
"Now, Mr. So-and-So is from an
inlnnd district where the insurgent
feeling is strong and he knows his
people don't approve his voting con
stantly Tvith, bj' and for Cannon and
those he represents. So he express
es his doubts and fears, and is asked
if he doesn't want a postoffice build
ing for one of the largest cities In
his district, or if there isn't a rivet
somewhere that could be dredged out
so tho turtles and catfish would have
better navigation, or if he couldn't
uso an appropriation for a park or
reserve of some kind or a lew thou
sand dollars to drain an old swamp.
"If he is from a coast district he
can have a lighthouse or two and
some lifesaving stations, with post
offices, harbdr dr'edgings, river im
provements, Indian schools and per
haps a fort or two thrown in as they
seem to bo needed. So these items
arc included in the appropriations
and go through like greased light
ning. "Then the candidate for re-election
is all right, no mntter how he
voted on the tariff, rules committee,
postal savings banks or anything
else. He has tho 'dope' to bunco the
people with and he proceeds to bunco
them. Ho sends Out 'press reports'
to tho newspapers that he knows he
can use, because they are as easily
buncoed as any one, tcllintr what he
has done for tho district, how much
money he has secured for the dis
trict, what great improvements he
has won for the district, and how
deserted and mined the district
would be without him. This tho puny
editor enlarges upon, drawing heav
ily on his handbook of superlatives,
and closes by pleading with 'our
readers' to work their toenails off
for Mr. So-an-So, that ho way be
sent back to congress to continue
tho good work."
It is another example of tho old
law that you cannot got fcometbini'
for nothing. If your congressman
got a great many public buildings
for yon ho gave up something to get
them: what ho eavo in most cases
was his voto on tho tnriff. The Se
nttlo Star puts this very peintedly:
"Of Into dnys tho nnti-Poinde.ter
press for its various reasons has
found abundant fault with tho in
ettnypnt senatorial candidate, and its
columns have- teemed and screamed
with tho weight of its wo.
"And now, mark you, the cause of
all this protesting anguish, all theso
predictions and maledictions,, is the
postmaster at Prosser, his appoint
ment, retention or stnto of his sal
ary we do not know which, and
neither have wo curiosity other than
that no crime was committed or con
temnlnted. Our interest lies solely
in the fact that there is overmuch
nowspaper ado about this postoffice
and its relation to the tenntorial
candidates. . . .
"Is this postmaster an issue com
parable to Aldrichism, Cnnnonism
and standnatism? Has he any thins
to do with the duty on sugar, wool or
shoes t . . .
"So let's have done with postmas
ters. Let us meet tho issuo fairly
and squarely. It is Standpatism vs.
The People.
"Let us discuss Poindexter in
these terms."
Benr in mind that the members of
congress who get nbundnnt federal
patronnge do so ouly because they
pay for it with their votes on impor
tant measures which are vital to the
political and business machine which
dominates tho Republican parly to
day. The patronage is a sop to the
voters in the district, which the vot
ers, in the lone run. pay for dearly.
A Good Speech.
Senator Burton of Ohio is not an
insurgent very far from it. On the
other hand, ho has no corrupt alli
ances, no is a conscientious man oi
a vcrv conservative habit of tbougbt.
and ns such is extremely useful in
the senate. He is opposed to the
Appalachian-White mountain forest
bill, and he made a powerful seech
against it in the senate. Both
friends and opponents ,of the meas
ure oucht to read this speech. A
postal-card request to Senator Bur
ton would probably, bring it. The
Annnlnchian-Wlutc mountain bill.
after long years of fighting, passed
the house during the closing days of
the session. It will come before the
senate for a vote next February.
The Insurgents at Home.
No insurgent now in congress has
been defeated for renominntion. In
Knnsas. the only insurgents in the
delegation, Madison and Murdock,
had no opposition for renominntion.
In Murdock's case, so completely
satisfied were the people of his dis
trict thnt oven the Democrats refus
ed to nominnte a candidate against
him. Is it possible to deny thnt the
insurgents really represent their
constituents more nearly than the
Standpaters?
"How manv times I have seen men
in legislative positions, anxious and
trembling almost, for fear they
.should not secure an appropriation,
declaring that if they did not get it
their promising future would lie
shrouded in darkness and that their
defeat was foreordained. But I can
say here in the presence of the pen-
ate that I never knew a case where
a single one of those anticipations
was realized. On the other hand, 1
hao known cases in which men re
ceived largo appropriations and were
confident that their future with their
constituents was founded on a rook,
as it wore, and yet who lost the nom
ination tho very next week. When
vou reach the real American citizen
he is not going to judge a senator of
tho United States or a representative
for the part that he plays in getting
something out of tho nntional grab
bag. Ho has a higher ideal of a
representative and of what should bo
done by him than that ho is merely
nn agent for his constituency in s-e-curing
money to bo expended in hi
homo locality." Senator Theodore
Burton of Ohio, Congressional Rec
ord, June 30, 1910, page 9727.
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Tho crow of tho vessel woro landed
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The Helga went ashore opposlto
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