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Show UP TO UNCLE JOE. To save the Appalachian Mountain Range for public uses to prevent its forests from being destroyed by private pri-vate haste for gold no more undoubted un-doubted duty lies before our Congress Con-gress at the present moment. Yet what of the Hon. Joseph Cannon? Where can he usually be found when money is at stake? Is he seen, with determined mien, his back against the wall, oblivious of the moment and of self, battling for his country's future? Not Joe. No better friend to vested snaps was ever known than he. Kindly take a moment, reader dear, to compare the Committee on Agriculture of the Fifty-ninth Congress Con-gress with that of the Sixtieth. It is now rumored dimly that two members mem-bers of the last year's Committee who are missing were dropped by Mr. Cannon because of their friend liness to the bill; and our knowledge of the Speaker makes us fear these rumors may be well founded. We refer to Davis of Minnesota, and La-fean La-fean of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cannon, is this true? New members are Cole of Ohio, Pollard of Nebraska, Gil-hams Gil-hams of Indiana, McLaughlin of Michigan, Hawlcy of Oregon, Cook of Colorado, and Weeks of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, Republicans; and Beall of Texas, Rucker of Missouri, Stanley of Kentucky, and Heflin of Alabama. Democrats; and we have reason to fear that an undoubted majority of these gentlemen oppose the bill. The whole committe, as now composed, is estimated to show 10 to 8 against the bill. This is the work of Uucle Joe, and if the bill is finally defeated the everlasting disgrace therefor should be centered sharply upon the Speaker of the House. "NOT-YET-BUT-SOON." "Known conditions indicate tint this proposition will pay dividend of one hundred per cent per annum." This is one sentence from fervid letters, let-ters, just now being received by all whose names arc on the "sucket list," which solicit the purchase, at fifty cents each, of shares in the Nome Gold Dredging and Powci Company. Other phrases, designated to tempt the credulous, arc "thoroughly "thor-oughly eliminate of risk," "one of the most profitable enterprise's known to mankind," "sufficient to pay an average of one hundred per cent annually an-nually for over forty-four years to every stockholder." Among the officers of-ficers and directors of this marvelous company we note one who is thus described: "Hon. William J. Stone, Jefferson City, Missouri. United States Senator from Missouri, and former Governor of that State." Should not our people cither pay this Senator a salary sufficient to relieve him from the embarrassing necessity o!f selling cheap jrlining .stocks to suckers, or else send a substitute sub-stitute to Washington and regretfully regretful-ly leave him free to give of his highly high-ly valuable time to defending hi family against the wolf? |
