Show IMMEDIATE BUSINESS FOR VOTERS there la Is a great deal in the papers just now how which the people of our republic ought to read according to the original design of the government they have something to do with the management of the nations affairs and to perform their duty well they should seek when opportunity affords to post poet themselves on the character ana habits of the thing they are to this is the very point on which the papers are just now giving a vast amount ot of information they say for example that this to is getting to be a government of trusts that the he most dangerous class in the country now DOW this country which was to be managed by the people is the men who are managing the government to make this matter clear it may be explained that the men here referred to are some of the members of the united states senate these persons according to the popular idea are in washington as the peoples agents to make laws and devise means for the subsistence ol of the nation but there be journals of good repute which say that these congressmen many of them are employing their time in quite another line of business por for ln in stance it to is declared that while ostensibly engaged in discussing the merits of a certain tariff bill one purpose of which was to remove the bounty from sugar they have been in reality spending their time in making private bargains bar gaina in the matter of the said bounty with men whom the trusts have sent to washington for that purpose it to is moreover stated in the papers that many of the said senators senatore have made sale of their votes and spies speeches hes on the bounty question to these same sugar agents and hold their places in the senate day after day as the virtual retainers of the companies who it IS ft charged in like manner pur par chased for money the votes that at the first enacted the bounty law the proceeds of the original corruption being thus returned into the business for new investments and more profit in the same line the papers also say that vot not only the sugar trusts but numerous other large enterprises have heavy investments iid ID the senate of the united states and maintain regularly expensive agencies at that point for the purpose of protecting and aad promoting their legislative interests and notwithstanding the enormous expense which must attend this particular method of getting bills pawed the business seems always to t pay well in i the end as aa witness the thrift of certain principal beneficiaries of frauds by which the govern government meng has baa been deliberately robbed of no body knows how much NOW all this belongs to the nation affairs afi aire and the people who arez are the nations managers should find it out it if they can por for the trusts and other thieves and the legitimate eone concerns erne of the go government veru together bost the people some over five hundred millions annual annually I 1 y if the books are honestly kept they should show how much of this enor sum goes to any particular thief j and how much for legitimate ext ex t benses in any ease it is the peo people business and they have a right to un der stand it and the papers at least are t doing their best to clear up bhoj the problem it the voters will read I 1 the news they will know very much more about it than if they dont for W it may be affirmed upon good authority that if the said voters do not by some means or others othel improve upon the quality of the mom they send to Washington thi five bun dree dred millions mill ioos which they pay to support 1 the government will soon all go ami tol to l the thieves and more besides |