The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-12
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WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION
DEMANDS.
Yet the administration asks Con-
gress to Appropriate an extra $780,
900 in aid of their design to dis
credit AMI persecute on an aver
age of 229,0OO homestead settlers
because, forsooth, 1000 persons
have fallen short OF compliance with
the requirements of the law. And
the administration impudently asks
this Congressional aid after they
have overridien the laws of Con-
gress governing the public lands.
the innocent 100000 homesteaders
are quite forgotten In this Roosevelt
lanxiety 70 punish 1000 guilty ones.
After the usual hemesteader has OK
tended his. land, complied with NIL
requirements. and waited patiently
for Ave years to elapse and for
the time TO come for him to take out
a patent he is notified that his pat
lent has been held up until Congress
will appropriate the necessary money
to pay special agents to Investigate.
Fifty-two thousand patents are al
ready tied up In this way, and this
means that over million and a
half Of settlers nrc directly involved.
1ne country Is entitled TO n reply
from the Interior Department Ia
such we'll considered arguments as
tbsse of Senator'S Garter and Hey
burn. Hr,
MIR. STEVENS uLTiMATuM.
If the government decides to Duild
the Panama Canal by contract, II
must get along without the services
OF Chief Engineer John F.. stevens
This Is MIR. Stevens, ultimatum 10
the President. It will be remembered
that this Is the, same JOHN r. Stew.
lens who year ago gave strong tes
ltimony before the Senate Committee
on Tnteroceanic Canals favor!ng th'
building OF the Panama Canal b.,
contract Since them he has had {
considerable change of heart. Mr.
Stevens now feels. after a careful
consideration of the work, aud tn,
bids made by the contractors. iha
the government can get along jus
Jas cheaply without them. And ht
Is right. II certainly does BATTLE on,
treason to understand why the Unitet
States should give private con
tractor 1915 for every 500 expended
on the canal, aud this. not for AM
work that the contractor performs
but merely for supervising the worl
which the government does. 1t re
ally seems as II the government
ought 10 be able 10 supervise 1t.
own work. ii It Is capable OF car
rying 1t on at all In fact, the Unit
ed States has proven its ability tt
do this very thing, for up to date al
the preliminary work has been undel
government direction.
STEALING THE GLORY.
Mr.. Stevens Is also PERSONAL!
justified In the demand he has mad,
upon the President. When MFR
Shonts resigned he stole some o
Mr. Stevens thunder. IIe made I
appear, and the administration &C
. Iquiesced. that he, and he alone
completet the preliminary organi
zation of the canal. There was con
siderable ego In all he said, qeBu
everybody knows that, while Mr.
Shonts' services are entitled to full
' credit. those of Mr.. Stevens are en-
titled to equal praise. And nov
: that the work has been outlined
, MI. Stevens can see the contract
: orr, stepping in and making off Will
: any Thunder that Mr.. Shonts di'
not appropriate. There are no grea
pecuniary inducements for skille,
engineers to enter the canal work
Mr.. Stevens could probably get dou
bic what the government now pay.
him In private concern. lie ant
the men associeted with him ar,
working primarily for glory. Mel
close tp Mr. Wallace say that one o
the reasons that led him to quit tn,
work was tho feeling that, after h,
had rendered the service some on.
else would step in and appropriat,
all the credit The administrator
had better think twice before II de
cldes to rob the brains behinl tn,
canal Of the credit 10 which they ar,
cntitled. .
a. g g sts,f 'et,
FRiENES FoFgTARff'fN REVISION
The friends Of the tarfn hav,
been promising To, revise It for som,
ten years nowg but they have ac
complished nothing more than tn,
revision In the interests; OF tho
trusts and mopopolies. The peopl;
have almost given up hope. when a,
last the thin edge OF the tariff revi
sion wedge have been inserted
curiously enough, the act was dcms
by man who Is not member ol
either house or Congress, When
Gov, Curtis Guild, Of, MsSaach husettl
heading q list Of emincnt Mazsachu.
|sstts Republicans. sent : lstter beg
giuG for = rsMsinn ,ans1 I1ae>6 and
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