Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-06

article by A. T. forge, secretary of
the Nelson campaign committee. In
it he asks the voters of Adams county
to investigate the congressional rec
ord of II. C.. Adams The article
did not explain the reason of It's at
tack on Mr.. Adams, but covered itself
with insinuauions, and gave the adj
monition, Investigate Mr.. Adams 8
congressional record Well, Mr..
forge, l have taken your advice and
herewith give to the voters of Adams
county and this congressional district
the result of my investigation. |
wrote the Breeders Gazette of Chica-
go, great frame journal with cir
culation of 10000, paper which
stands back of the farmers interest
without fear or favor, and neither
you nor any other man can say this
great paper has any political or per-
sonal perferment, unless it points to
the betterment of agricultural condi-
tions, the cause in which it is en-
gagged. | received in reply to my in
quiry of that paper marked copy of
the February number, dated the 18th,
which reads as follows:
The patience and persistence neces-
sary to make good thing move along
finds capital illustration in the sue
cessful ending of Congressman Adams
two years campaign in the House for
an increased appropriation for our
state experiment stations. After all
sorts of discouragements and delays,
after rebuffs that would have dis
heartened less determined and re-
sourceful man, Mr.. Adams had the
satisfaction of seeing his bill pass the
House without dissenting voice. We
are advised that it's course through
the Senate will be as smooth, but,
let US pray, not so slow. Uater.-
The bill passed the Senate).
In 1887 Congress gave to the farmer
the Hatch act, establishing expert
ment stations in every state for work.
ing out the complex problems of agri-
culture. The theory has been proved
by time and found sufficient
But the garment that clothed grow
ing industry score of years ago IS
ludicrously shruken for its present
day form. Our agricultural produc-
tion has doubled since the experiment
stations were established, and in this
fact is found ample justification OF
the request for additional aid to these
useful adjuncts of the industry. The
Adams bill provides that S., 600 addi-
tional shall be appropriated this year,
and $1,000 more each year thereafter
until the sum of SIS, 900 is reached.
which will be paid annually after
ward. When this full amount is
reached six years hence the appropria-
tion to each station will have been
doubled over the amount set aside by
the Hatch bill eighteen years ago.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
so greatly pleased over the passage of
this bill that he has addressed the
following letter to Mr.. Adams:
II want to congratulate you most
heartily upon your success in the
management and passage of the bill
increasing the endowment of the agri-
cultural experiment stations. Few
men accomplish so much in so short a
time as you have. This
may not impress people generally as
the most important step taken by Con-
gress up to this time, but it so i'm
presses me. Speaking for the agri-
cultural people, thank you most
heartily
When this bill is on the statute
books Mr.. Adams will have written
his name alongside of Mr.. Hatch as
one of the great benefactors of agri-
cultural development and education.
No man has had better opportunity
for observation of the advantages of
such education than Mr. Adams A
resident of Madison, he has watched
with keen interest the development of
the Wisconsin College of Agriculture
and ito experiment station. His sue
cessful creative work as Dairy and
Food Commissioner of Wisconsin
served to show him to a yet greater
extent the need of agricultural inves-
tigation and its value, not only in in
creased production and conserved fer
tility, but also in the protection of
the health of the people from impure
food compounds. The successful ac-
complishment Of this legislation at
Washington will add largely to the
substantial credit account which Mr..
Adams has accumulated for himself
through his years of service for the
agriculturist. And we happen to
know that, desirable as this legisla-
tion appears to be on the face of it,
the resources of a man skillful in
campaign, strong in attack, clever in
diplomacy and persistent in pursuit
have been taxed to their utmost to
win it. Mr.. Adams deserves much
credit for his victory.
The above from paper like The
Breeders Gazette, which CLEAN from
the record of our public men the pith
of their acts which concern the great
agricultural industries of our country,
should be bona fide recommendation