The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18
Summary of Evemts


he has sources of ready revenue at hand Why
is not that good policy for
Co.. government? Strike off por-
- ton of the duties wool and
BOUND VIEW Wooens; the consumers will be
relieved from the burden Of
high prices and the Government could easily clear
$4,000 900 of revenue from that schedule.
1t could well be put into the improvement of our
waterways. Then there is the income tax 1t
could be easily made to yield sufficient for all the
Government needs
These remarks from Representative Burle
son, of Texas, deserve to be embossed. The
viciousness of the bond issue for irrigation
purposes is already apparent in the horde of
lobbyists who will flock to Washington in De
cember to demand of Congress $1O,000,0O0 for
a porl1-barrel. Under the guise Of improve
ment of rivers and harbors a great slush fund
is to be raised in placation Of the West. Con
gresham Bureson has exactly the right idea:
that the legitimate Improvements upon which
all agree can be made out of the revenue with
out subiecting the masses of the people to this
enormous burden of bonds. AS for sectional
features, such as irrigating the Western lands
at the expense OF the poor taxpayers OF all
sections, it is almost incredible that such a
thing could be proposed. Congressman Bur
Lesson deserves thanks for the stand he has al
ready taken and it is to be hoped that every
Southern Congressman, Western Congress-
man, Northern and Eastern Congressman will
join In a concerted effort to defeat the scheme
for giving Taft Cannon-Aldrich popularity
in the powerful States of the Pacific Slope.
Frank Pierce, heretofore unknown to fame,
hobs up as Assistant Secretary of State.
Rapidly indeed is the Amer
WE SHOULD lean public being introduced
KNOW to the understrapDers in all
"OUR RULERS" departments. The secretary
of the secretary, the first as
sistant stenographer Of the secretary of the
secretary, and the office boy to the first assist
ant stenographer of the secretary of the sec
rotary are all assuming quite national i'm
portance. Mr.. Pierces claim to fame pro-
ceeds from his refusal to grant right of way
to the proposed Oklahoma Pipe Line Com
pany, holding that the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company. q Standard Oil branch, is already
in Oklahoma and should handle Oklahoma
oil notwithstanding that the State of Okla
hOma denied permission to the Prairie Oil
and Gas Company to build pipe line there
Mr.. Under Secretary has gone even further
than the Supreme Court has cared to 90 in
granting perpetuity to 'vested rights" In
dignatiOn simply fails when the policies of
sovereign State are set at naught by any petty
sub official who can annex himself to the paw
roll of the Interior Department.
4 cabinet meeting, by the way, was held
just few days ago, at which time most of our
esteemed friends were present to discuss the
encroachment of the people upon the inviola-
BILE right of the State Department to secrets,
etc. The Crane case as we'll as the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy are said to have come in
for profound consideration by these very au-
gust gentlemen of the Cabinet. They felt that
their prerogative to subterranean methods and