Amador ledger., 1906-09-28

idsI RESORT III VIII De the duty Ut
this government to intervene and re-
store peace in the island at any cost.
The navy department. now has four
warships available IN CUBAN waters.
force ample to protect all American
interests, and if necessary to put
down the instruction as we'll. 1t is
not thought, however. that any such
eventuality Will arise. One of the
most disconcerting features of the
situation is that president Palma.
melted by his wife, whose father was
the murdered president of Honduras,
is talking of resigning, and may do SO
at any moment. If he should take
this step vice president Capote would
succeed him, and as he is equally
unpopular with the revolutionary
element, this would help matters very
little.
There has been some talk that
either the insurgents or some other
evily disposed person might dyna-
mite the cruiser Denver, now at
Havana harbor, and force this govern
mentsto drastic action. This is rather
wild supposition, but precautions
have been taken against any such
contingency. Such happening could
only be of advantage to the friends
of annexation who are anxious to see
this government take over the the
Island of Cuba. As the annexation
sentiment is the most violent among
American capitalists who have inter-
ests in the island, it is hardly to be
supposed that any such event could
happen. One thing at least is GER
tain and that is no such fatality
could occur through the lnstru
mentality of the present government
IN Cuba because the harbor is not
mined as it was during the Spanish
occupation. The insurgents on the
other hand have not the equipment
for any such villanous exploit and
the chances are very largely against
anything happening to the Denver
and forcing the hand of the admin
istration in this way.
There is trouble and good deal of
it, in the government printing office.
There has been friction and dis
satisfaction ever since the removal
of public printer Palmer and the
appointment of Mr. Chas. StiIIings,
an outsider of Boston, as his sue
cessor. Discharges and suspensions
have followed each other in rapid
succession, until the whole force of
the great government print shop is on
edge, wondering where the lightning
will strike next. Mr. StiIIings has
been the head of large commercial
printing establishment, and it is
generally understood that he is
thoroughly experienced in his trade.
The government printing office is the
largest and best equipped establish
ment of its sort in the world, but
there has been nothing but trouble
ever since the new public printer has
been III charge. Exactly what the
difficulty is, it would be hard to say.
The explanation of the printing office
employees is that "He's all right, but
he won't do" 1t Is perhaps the first
time, since the days of Andrew Jack.
son, that the printing. office hes been
run on economical business-like
lines. The Joint committee of con-
gress on printing has Investigated the
situation during the recess without
arriving at any definite conclusion.
The office has long been an asylum
tor political printers, Hooking for
soft places and easy work with big
and sure pay, and now when they
have grown old in office resent as an
intruder a young man full of energy,
who insists on them doing something.
The United States Patent Office sore-
ly needs man like public printer
'oIlilinBs,
Considerable criticism has been
caused by the action of the depart
ment OF agriculture in it's latest rul-
ing as to meat labels. The new meat
inspection law will go into effect on
October lst, and in virtue of this
law, all meat products will have to
bear government inspectors stamp
and be labeled tor exactly what they
are, so that there will be no question
of decelving the purchaser and con-
sumner. There has been a number of
between the secretary of
agriculture and the meat packers as
to the forms of the new labels that
VIII have to be used. Anything that
is deceptive, such as ''potted
chicken, made out of veal; or
picnic ham," made out of beef, has
been absolutely ba1red; but the
packers stormed the agriculture de-
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