The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-25

LlcheJ German is strong with the
financial interests He has the sup
/ port OF the Cleveland wing of the par
ty' he suits the solid south he is reg
olar. and a favorite with a majority
or the leaders. Bryan has announced
that he did not believe German to be
the man for the nomination, but his Op-
position may not so further. There is,
moreover, systematic and unremitting
work being done for Germans nOmina-
ton, and from many quarters come. re-
/ ports lat the party is consolidating
/ upon him As a consequence. the ad-
Eisers Of the president are said to have
decided that the fight upon the Mary
] land senator should be made at home.
| II the state goes Republican. il is ar
gued that German can hardly expect
the nomination. and should he accept
1t he would be more or less discredited,
and have poorer chance Of election.
Uncle Sam in Business.
IL is not generally known, perhaps,
that Uncle Sam carries on quite a rum
I her Of businesses of a nature that puts
HIM in the line Of quite ordinary trade
For instance, he is the biggest printer
| IN the world-everybOdy does know
/ that; he is a heavy peddler of waste
paper. and Just recently he has gone
into the grocery business. It would
I appear that he was really reluctant 10
/ take up this branch of trade, but was
forced to IL. Whenever q suspected
cargo arrives in any port of the United
states the customs officials promptly
select a case OF the goods and forward
It for inspection to the chemists of the
agricultural department, who make an
analysis. Sometimes the goods under
suspicion are canned or bottled, and
under such circumstances only one
bottle or can is opened It became
mfr 70. Of ~
remaining cans or bottles in the case.
They could not be returned to the i'm
porter. Then, too, they cost the de-
partment something. for a case of the
goods cannot be boldly cOnfiscaLed from
an importer before 1t is proven that ne
is bringing in an adulterated article,
so the government pays for whatever
il takes up for investigation. IF the
sample is found to be unadulterated it
is sold-Fhat is, it is going to be under
the new arrangement. Just what the
method Of sale Will be has not been
decided. 1t is suggested that public
auctions, after the manner of the dead
letter office auctions will be most pOpu-
lar Adulterated goods are, of course,
destroyed. Importers have no Objec-
tion to the proposed plan, as it Sc
cures them q government certificate
for their goods, a thing which can be
advertised to advantage. Approved
and sold by the United States govern
ment" should be quite a card.
Lobbyist Laid Out.
One Of the most persistent lobbyists
of the many who have annoyed mem
bers Of congress will find his Occupa-
ton gone during the coming session.
This is Or" Arthur Macdonald.
'psychOneurOlOgist" who pestered
nearly every member Of the Fifty-sev-
Ont
efforts to secure the passage Of a bill
to establish a laboratory at Washing
ton to study the abnormal and Grim
1nal classes. 1t is safe to say that no
more persistent lobbying ever was done
for any bill than that by Macdonald
for his measure. He maintained a press
bureau which daily printed recon-
mendations of his proposed laboratory.
He wrote long personal letters daily
to every member Of the senate and
house, sending them by special deliv-
cry and marked urgent" and conf
Dental" Daily he interviewed scores
Of the members, and daily every mem
Der Of congress received clippings from
newspapers boosting MacDonald's plan
for an Institution 10 study the abnOr-
NAL. Commissioner w. T. Harris OF
the bureau of education has recently
published what might be called an ex-
pose Of Macdonald, which VIII so ad-
vertise him with congress that his fur
Their plans for inducing government aid
VIII surely be resented. Commissioner
Harris reveals the fact that MacDOu-
aid for several years was a clerk in his
bureau, acting as a specialist I'm edu-
cation as a prevention of pauperism
and crime" While i'm this position
Macdonald inaUgurated a system of
measurements of school children in the
District Of Columbia schools which al
most caused the breaking up Of the en-
tire school system. MacDonald's the
ory was that certain shapes Of the
skull, ears or mouth denoted signs Of
denotes. As soon as the import Of the
became known the practice was sud-
denly stopped, and the cIerkship in ed
ucation and crime was promptly dis
continued. Macdonald, Commissioner
HarraS says, has taken care to identify
issuing various of his publications. by
announcing himself As Specialist in the
bureau of education" or as author of
Abnormal Man, published by the
United States bureau Of education"
when, in truth, the bureau was not re-
spOnsible for any Of his publications
Several eastern newspapers have from
time to time exposed the absurdity of
MacDOnalds proposed bureau Of GRIM
inOlOgy, but so persistentIy has he
urged his plan and with such ingenuity
has he reached members of congress
that il required a public statement from
a member of the government TO squeIch