Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-22
WHAT is NEEDED
In the Agricultural Department Is
An Honest aud Eflcient Head

Editor ofthe Sunday Globe
Al the fourth annual convention Of the
National Live Stock Association a request
was made, embodied in Memorial No. 2, re-
questng that a Second Assistant Secretary
Of Agriculture be appointed to look out for
the needs of the country. Recently the
papers of the North East, South and West
have take mp the matter since Secretary
Of Agriculture Wilson (who is acting head
has got up q real hard talk against such a
proposition ! wonder who Of his many
thinkers thought IT might affect his large
family in officer Few people outside Of
Congress realizes how important The port
folio of agriculture is or how necessary it
should be to have a live man at its head
Only the House and Senate can realize that
the Department Of Agriculture helps them
to keep their places more than all the other
departments put together When you con-
slider the markets and products of the earth
the farmer only has all tlis IN his hands
why should not that department have a
good, bright live head why ! askf
Because Senator EAR and Allison are at
Wilson s back There is not a single mem
Der in either end of the Capitol but who has
something to ask Of Allison, as he is chair
man of that committee that stabs each me M
Der at the heart il anyone should get up and
question or ask for ar investigation Of the
most talked Of department IN the United
States, be would be sent way back to the
rear Let It be said Wilson found the De-
partment Of Agriculture clean swept when
he walked in; how long did itremain 50 after
Andrew Geddis came over from the Pension
Ohice7 Not one month. The scandal that
has eminated from that department ia the
last two years is something dreadful The
public has been shocked lately, hut their
dear nerves would go all to pieces If the
other half was told, and God grant that
some man may have the physical courage
to ask for an investigation since Secretary
Wilson took hold He has been the SIM
plcsttool in the hands Of Geddis and his
nephew that ever fell to anyone's lot. II is
to be at least hoped that Allison and Gear
do not know the true state of affairs that
have existed in that dera tment. Colonel
Brigham Assistant Secretary The
Granger" is 80 very busy keeping his son
Harry and his daughter on the payroll that
Live Stock Association must not expect any
help from him.
DR.. D. Z. Salmon, Chief Of the Bureau OF
Animal Industry, has had a hard struggle to
bring his bureau to its present condition,
and nobody knows better than the doctor
himself what opposition he has had to con.
tend with frOm-well, let me say those
over his head. Geddis appointed his nep-
hew to a position in the department that he
could not Gil and was disgusting to every
one brought in contact with him, but he
succeed in keeping in with ]. w. Wilson
(son Of the secretary so you could not
touch him. Since then il has been dis
covered that the climate of the District was
not healthy for ]. w Wilson, so he was
sent out of town at the Governments ex-
pense Another discovery was made that
50 many bad letters, not only lacking Eng
lish, but sense, had been sent out from the
Bureau of Animal Industry that DR.. LOWE
A. Geddis had written that the climate was
hard on his complexion, so he was given a
salt water trip at the Governments expense.
No wonder another Assistant Secretary Of
Agriculture is needed The national live
stock associations number ,4I2 delegates in
convention and the sum of 100000, 600
Don't you think this will count little in
our next Presidential election? Well, ii
YOU don't, you've got another think. A
very easy way to settle this matter is for the
President o ask Secretary Wilson 10 resign
as a New Years gift to the people at large
If the department had some good man who
knew something about agriculture, or even
il he was not an agriculturist himself but
at least a. rational, sound-miuded decent
man, there are few chiefs who understand
their separate divisions we'll and let them
| advise the new secretary what line of work
| 10 authorize With another good house
| cleaning the secretary could send all the
| black sheep to the Philippines and in that
! way rid the Government of their presence
| and raise their salaries / have been won
dering what title they could give Geddis, or
| what excuse could be mustered up for his
( usefulness A prize might be offered by
/ the GLOBE for the solution
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