The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-01-01

System that is Growing Up
is of a Most Dangerous
Character.
THE POWER OF
SUBORDINATES
Bureau Chiefs Greater Than
Heads of Different De-
partnents.
PURE FOOD LAW MAY RESULT
IN A PARTICULARLY GOOD
THING FOR. CHIEF OF THE DE.
PARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
CASE OF BEAVERS AND mAcHAN
CITED.
BY William Wolff Smith.

Washington, D. G. Dec. 31.-During
the last three or four years We have
heard much about government by
Injunction but it looks now, if all
the schemes that have been proposed
go through Congress, that this will
soon be a government by experts -
Everybody that has a right to ask for
anything is asking for experts for this,
that and the other thing. 1t is ex.
perts everywhere. This colossal re-
public OF ours is patient OK, capable
and willing to carry all sorts and
sizes of burdens, but the poor animal
may be overloaded, and our house OF
cards come tumbling down. Modesty
is born in some people, in others 1t is
inherited. and in still others it comes
bY education and training. There
Eeat have once been some slight de-
gree or modesty in the Department of
Agriculture, but If so, that part Of il
allotted to the bureau of cheE-istry,
has fed, like gratitude to british
beasts.
Dangerous Capitalization.
Capitalization has also occupied
much of the attention OF the public,
more or less for some time, and has
recently been revived in one or two
sensational methods. This sort of cen
trvliyation. however, has been wholly
a disposition to take more 1ower to
! the general government and leave less
/ TO the states, but there is a system of
Capitalization that is growing up of
much more dangerous character
the GENERALIZATION of power in the
hands of subordinates. Everybody
win remember the story of the Horse
Leech's daughter, who. day ard night,
without ceasing WAS condemned 10
cry, "Giyei Givei" So il is with some
of the members of the administrative
part of our government The more
they have the more they want, aaG
their voices are ever heard crying,
"Givei'
'Disinterested" Wiley.
For two years or more there ives n
growing demand for the enactment of
a pure food law. The people were
tolG that they were, and had been for
a long time, dieting on poisons: that
the producer was adulterating his
product before it got into the hands of
the seller. and the seller was adding
TO the poisonous adulteratiOn There
was much truth in all this. During
the agitation of the subject il de-
veloped that Professor Harvey w.
Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, was the main
agitator, and he received many praises
for his '.disinterested'' efforts in be-
half of the good health of all the
people. Any one who will take the
trouble to glance at the book of es-
Inmates submitted to Congress by the
Secretary of the Treasury will be very
apt to come to the conclusion, when
he reads the estimates relating to the
bureau of chemistry, that there was a
large-sized colored gentleman hidden
in the pure food wood-pile. and that
the distinguished head OF the chemi-
cal bureau was not, after allS as dis
Interested as the public had been led
10 believe. kET
Asks Big Insrease.
The appropriation for the bureau
OF chemistry for the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1907 was $174,1s0. The
amount asked for the next fiscal
year iumNs TO nearly one million dol
lars, beinA in fact, s937.72O. Of this
large amount the greatest bulk is
asked for the establishment and main
tenRnce of iab%atories, here, there, and
everywhere. alAunder the direction
and superSisicS of Chief Wiley.
There has been good deal of clamor
on the part CT Government clerks in
Washington for an Increase of salary.
Professor Wiley askA for only s1,7OO
In the way of SncreasA.d salaries. and
OF that he asks that $500 be tackled
pinto his own salary, aGd the other
600 be given to'his CHER. clerk What
was 1t Falstaff said about \here being
y deal Of bread2 When ittS Temem-
tered that the estimates subAtitted by
the Secretary of the TreasSy are
made from the. estimates sr{nitted
by the heads of the other A.part-
ments. and that the heads of dtNart-
ments submit the estimates as tIr-
nished by the heads of bureaus. VT
VIII be seen that the estimates asking
Tor this increase of s76S. $40 for the
expenses of the chemical bureau are
made by Professor Wiley himself.
All Under Wiley.
The estimates ask for s750.06u TO
carry out the provisions Of the pure
food law. laboratories are TO be es-
tablished in New York, Boston. Phil
sdelphia, New Orleans. Chicago, San
Francisco. Seattle, Galveston and
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