Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1881 — The Pulpy Miller. [ARTICLE]

The Pulpy Miller.

Senator Warner Miller signalized his first political utterance since his election by delivering a speech before the Paper-Makers’ Association at Saratoga, in which he showed that he has not severed, and does not propose to sever, the thrifty ties which bind his private interests to his public duties. In other words, Mr. Miller boldly aud frankly announces that he is “on the make,” and intends using his Senatorial office to help himself to all the money that comes in his way. He was struck with the fact “that it seemed natural for paper-makers to go iulo polities,” a remark which has the merit of truthfulness rather than of novelty. A wood-pulp man whose profits are guaranteed him by a tariff of 25 or 30 percent naturally “takes to politics,’ in order to see that that, happy condition of things remains assured to him. He goes into politics exactly as the James boys go into a railroad train, not for the pleasure of an excursion on the rail, but to burst open the express Safe and rob the passengers; or as a fishhawk goes naturally into the water, for the sake of picking up the unlucky fishes. He, moreover, remarked further that he would like to sell his paper in South America, but, owing to the United States tariff on ship-building materials and the absurd navigation laws, there are no steamers by which he can send bis paper there; so he further announced that from his seat in the Senate he should vote enough money out of che pockets of the people of the United States, to enable him to sell his paper at a profit in Brazil. That so impudent a'^raider on the public treasury should think it “as well for the Government to pay for prompt and perfect mail lines to foreign ports as for star routes in Western Territories,” may be accepted as a matter of course. Steamship subsidies and star routes are all of a piece, and a man capable of voting tiie one to aid him m his private business caunot be greatly disturl>ed at voting in favor of the other, and giving Brady as clean a certificate of character as that treasury raider could well ask. Mr. Miller begins well aud will bear watching, for when such a Miller is done grinding his grist, as in the old story, one horse can take, home what it took two horses to brir-g to the mill.— Detroit Free Press.