Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-08-31
DEPARTMENT. or AGRICULTURE.
It's New Chief Being Measured by the Farm
eca Of the Country.

e-s az the Country.
H Grover Cleveland In the selection
81 81 4 secretary Of :,gric ulture had search
ed this broad land over with the single
purpose Of finding and placing in power
the worst American enemy Of the Amer
lean agriculturist, he could not havo
made surer work than in the choice Of
Secretary Morton, whose unrelentin
hostility to the farmers. Of our country
has already been abundant,y proved.
This extremely prejudiced and amazing 5
y self opinionated officer has deli Eberato-
y undertaken and is now earnestly
prosecuting the work of breaking down
the principles which have been estab-
lished for half century for the equali-
zation of our agricultural interests with
those Of other great industries, and
which reached their full maturity under
the able administration of Mr.. Morton s
great predecessor The scientific investi-
cations made for the department. and
covering the available information OBJ
tainable throughout the world were
a special feature Of Secretary Rusk' s
work in SO enlarging the scope of the de-
partment that there might come to- the
plain everyday agriculturist the scien-
ti6c and practical information that
would enable him to SO conduct his work
as to secure the best results. Mr.. Morton
used his first opportunity to contract and
cripple this arm of the work and rem
dered the great expenditure which had
been wisely made, under the authority
and direction Of congress, in it's behalf
almost useless.
Another glaring instance Of Mr.. Nor
TONS maladministratiOn is seen in his
curtailment of the meat inspection serv-
ice. The pretense made by foreign gov
ernments that American meats were dis
eased and unwholesome, under which
they were denied admission to the mar
kets of Europe, was one of the great OBJ
stacles that confronted Secretary Rusk
at the beginning Of his term Of office.
The problem was an old one, and it's So
luton had been deemed hopeless, but
through the energy Of the secretary the
system OF meat inspection was SO enlarg-
ed and extended that European buyers
became satisfied that there was no Ion
ger chance Of their being imposed up
on by the importation of unsound meat
from America, and the restrictions were
removed, the foreign markets opened to
the products of our stock farms, and un-
der the new impetus thus given our ex-
portation of beef and pork was vastly
increased, to our great profit.
One Of the first and worst acts Mr.
Morton found it possible to accomplish
was the curtailment Of this meat in
spection, and by this means he has been
and is engaged in wrestling from our
live stock interest the protection thrown
around it by General Rusk, and we are
again laid open to the charge by for
eign governments that we are nursing
pleuropneumonia and other dread dis
eases, so that we have every reason to
fear that we shall soon again be con-
fronted by the fact that the ports of en-
try in France and Germany are closed
against our beef and pork, which means
loss only to be estimated in millions.
The farmers Of the United States will
soon be called upon to indorse the acts
of Secretary Morton at the ballot box.
Indorsing Morton condemns Rusk, fo1
the official declarations of Morton sc
declare.