The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-10-06


and neglectin the office and among
the employees that is little short
of scandulous. The President it
is understood has the Office under
consideration and if he shall APP
point a real working commissioner,
such d man as he recently appoint
ed in the Government Printing
Office, there will be a much needed
reform in the Patent Office, the
only Office that not only pays it's
way but brings a large annual sur
plus TO the Treasury.
The movement looking to the
establishment of the ''PrOplcS
Lobby" All organization of men of
literary and political note who
will keep an eye Oh Congress III
the interest of all the people, is al
ready receiving ncOurasement
and support from different sections
of the country. This bureau is Il
novel undertaking and if carried
out according to the plans of it's
organizers It is believed will afford
the country a check on an unbridel-
ed Congress that may go far to-
ward improving conditions in the
present systems of legislation and
politics. The objects of it's Origi
majors will be to translate the acts
and votes of Congress and iud.vi
dual congressman for the benefit
Of the people. 1t will obtain and
give publicity to accurate informa
ton as to the course Of bills that
come before the two Houses 1t
will know who the friends aud who
the Instructors of bills affecting
the people are and as it will have
no alliances or interests except TO
keep the people informed it will
report without fear or favor what
Congressman are doing and the
hidden springs that at times pro-
pei them. What the people have
had heretofore in the way OF en-
lightement about political matters
has mostly come through the Con
gress, men themselves who have
given out on the stump or to re-
porters or to The Congressional
Record just such information as
1t was to their benefit to reveal
and have often concealed or failed
to reveal real motives and ends.
1t is the object Of the peoples lob
by to drag things and legislators
into daylight. Its purpose is TO
furnish the country with a NOV
ing picture OF the wheels within
wheels of the inside workings of
Congress and leave TO the people
the conclusions that they may
draw there from 1t will be speci-
tic in its reports and Congressman
will be reported by their full
names. Those who are opposed to
pure food, pure drugs, meat in
spection, parcels post and such
law affecting the welfare of every
citizen in the country will be given
the full privilege of publicity and
when a state or District puts up a
man for reelection his full record
will he before the people as a vot-
ing guide. 1t will not be the pur-
pose of the Lobby to SIMPLY rake
muck but there will be as earnest
effort to give credit for zeal and
honesty as to expose deception
and graft. The names of the or.
ganizers Of the Peoples Lobby are
a guarantee that the bureau will
be one that politicians will have
to consider in all political calcula
tlons. Among them are snch we'll
known writer's as Henry Beach
Needham, Lincoln Stetiins, r NJ.
Allen, Secretary Of the Interstate
Pure Food Commission; and Fran
CHS J. Heeny, special Government
prosecutor in the Oregon land
fraud cases; Benjamin Ide Wheel.
er. Robert J. Collier, Mark Twain,
and William Allen White. These
are not names to suggest any
quixotical venture but to assure
the skeptical that real long needed
work is at last in fair way 10 az
conplishlnens.
The President and Secretary Of