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Washington Notes.
In the past few days President
Taft has acquiesced in, if not ac
tually approved the effort to re
move Dr. Wiley from the position
of Chief Chemist of the Agricul
tural department. This affair has
developed the great political sen
sation that Washington has ex
perienced in more than a year.
The great fruit canners through
out the country were, before the
pure food law was enacted, exten
sive users of poisonous preserva
tives in their canned goods Dr.
Wiley as Chief Chemist of the Ag
ricultural Department and there
fore executive of the pure food
law, has been relentless in his
fight for pure food and he has
struck sledge hammer blows at
food adulterators and users of
poisonous preservatives wherever
he found them.
These food manufacturers,
which include meat canners of
Chicago and elsewhere and vege
table and fruit canners all over
the country are anxious to have
Dr. Wiley removed as thpy have
power enough with the Republican
party to name ‘ their own man as
his successor.” They would then
have no difficulty whatever with
our pure food laws as they would
own the Judge so to speak. The
Standard Oil Company and other
great companies do not care very
much what kind of laws we pass
because they are the ones who,
through our Presidents, always
name the Judges who nulify the
laws and corporations escape the
fines. The charge against Dr. Wi
ley is thathe permitted a chemical
expert assisant to draw a little
larger salary than was authorized
by the law.
The law authorizes Dr. Wilev
to pay $1,60) a year for an expert
assistant, but the fact is, expert
chemists cannot be had for such a
price as that. So Wiley appointed
Dr. Rushy, of New York, as his
assistant at $1,600 per year, with
the understanding that Dr. Rusbv
would receive S2O a day for the
work that he did in the labratory
and under this arrangement he
would not be working more than
a part of the time, but would
draw S2O a day out of the $1,600
per annum when he did work. Dr.
Wiley’s department was investi
gated by Attorney General Wick
ersham, and he recommended that
Wiley be permitted to resign. The
fact of the matter is, the whole
affair was trumped up to scare
Dr. Y\ .k y into resigning. But
those who thought be would resign
have another guess coming to
them. Dr. Wiley has rendered the
greatest service to this country of
any man alive today, and the ef
fort which was made to oust him
-resulted in letters pouring into the
White House by the thousands.
This whole affair shows how
subservient the Republican party
is to corrupt men and measures.
The food canners of course will be
heavy contributors to the republi
can campaign fund next year if
Wiley is fired, and Taft is willing
if public opinion can be hush
ed up, but it cannot be.
It has now leaked out, that when
Ballinger was trying to slip the
valuable mineral lands of Alaska
to the Guggenheim-Morgan crowd
that Charles P. Taft, a millionaire
brother to the President, was also
interested in the fraud that was
about to be perpetrated on Uncle
Sam It >s generally believed
among tne politicians that the
government at Washington is now
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th- rottenest in political corrup
tion that has ever been known in
history of this country.
The election of Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, to the U. K. Senate has
e icited a great deal of com
ment in Washington It is gen
erally expected that when he takes
hie seat on the Democratic side
of the Senate his colleagues will
realize that a giant in honeßty,
ability and patriotism has come
among them, and that he will
show the Bame leadership in the
Senate that has characterized all
his political activity.
Father of 32 Children
You know ise de man that had
82 chiluns, so spoke A.B.Burgess,
colored, Monday to a reporter of
the News, of course this was startl
ing to the reporter, regardless that
we are accustomed to hearing
snake stories, etc., so of course
several questions were put to the
negro, so fast that he says, Say,
Cap, you gwine putit in the paper?
Ihe conversation between the neg
ro and the reporter was something
like this.
Cap, I han’t seen my brothers
for thirty years and want you to
advertise and see if I can’t learn
where dey is.
llow many brothers have you?
Four, was the quick reply.
When did you hear from them?
About thirty years ago, the
negro said.
We know our paper will do most
anything, but whether it will
bring the dead and lost back we
can’t say, but tell us your name
and address and we will try and
help you find your long lost rela
tives .
M. B. Burgess is my name and I
live at Areola, have 82 children,
and—
Here is where we interrupted
the negro. Have 82 children and
no dogs counted?
No sah all boys and girls.
No Billy Possums nor Teddy
Bears thrown in,all children then,
good Lord, was the faint reply to
the negro’s broad grin.
We are used to horrible reports
of death and most any accident,
but this was a little more than
the reporter’s nerves could stand,
and but for the gallantness of the
devil (we mean the printer’s
devil) no doubt there would have
been some rash thing done, but
after the devil had vouched for the
story we proceed to take inall that
poured from the gallant negro’s
mouth.
I have been married three times,
have 10 children bv my first wife,
2 by my second wife, and 20 by
my third wife.
That’s enough, vou are excused,
exclaimed the reporter, as any
man that can live with three wives
is liable to have most anything
happen to him.
Picture men are working again
in some parts of the country. Yon
give these fellows the picture of
some member of the family They
promise to enlarge and beautify
it, giving your little one rosy
cheeks and the fairest of faces, for
a mere song. If you let them get
this inch you will find that there
is a good long ill hitch to the other
end, when an altogether different
man comes back with the picture,
which you can get only by buying
a costly frame. Sic ’em, Tige!
The House of Lords evidently
hasn’t heard about that the stand
patters have been getting over on
this side of the pond.
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