The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-09-02
RAPs ROOSEVELT;
]. Then QUITS JOB
Taft Will Accept 0rmsby Nc
Harg's Resignation.
"LAMs" AMERICAN PEOPLE
Assistant Secretary Of the Department
of Commerce and Labor Stirs
Up Hot Fuss with His Bit.
7 ter Attacks.


Beverly, Mass, Aug. 30.-The resig-
nation of Ormsby McHarg, assistant
secretary of the department of COM
merce and labor, who, on Saturday
attacked former President Roosevelt,
will be accepted.
Secretary Nagel, head of the depart
ment, had an extended conference
with President Taft and discussed
with the chief executive the question
of successor to Mr.. McHarg. Secre-
tary Nagel received letter from the
assistant secretary saying he must
adhere to his first intention of re-
naming in the department only for a
period of six months.
Term Expires Saturday.
This term of duty will expire Sep
TENDER 4, and by that time Secretary
Nagel hopes to be ready to announce
the choice of new assistant. Mr..
McHarg announces some time ago
that he soon would leave the govern
ment service to engage in private bust
ness. In his letter to Secretary Nagel
he reminds him of his intention to
leave the service, but says that If a
successor cannot be found by Satur-
day he will continue in office until
October /. Mr.. McHarg's formal let
ter of resignation will follow.
There was no one in Beverly will
ing to say that Mr.. McHarg's resigna-
ton was in any wise the result of the
interview in which the assistant Sec
rotary said among other things
MAY be he (Roosevelt) thought he
was the Lord. He acted like it around
here for a good many years."
Mr.. McHarg is reputed to have said
that the policy of forest conservation
outlined by President Roosevelt was
too dreamlike ever to be of practical
value and that only "the Lord himself
would have carried it out. Mr.. Nc
Harg further was represented as hav-
ing said that perhaps Mr.. Roosevelt
thought himself equal to the Worker
of Miracles.
Bitter Over Attacks.
Assistant Secretary McHarg is said
to have grown quite bitter over the
government officials in Washington
generally known as the Roosevelt
element" have been criticising mem
bers of the Taft administration. Con-
sequently he is reported to have eX-
pressed his own views in rather a
forcible manner and the controversy
started by Chief Forester Pinchot
with the secretary of the interior, Mr..
Ballinger, is declared here to be
growing to such proportions that the
president will have to take hand in
it and put the government house at
Washington in order.
This talk of water power mo-
nopoly," said Mr.. McHarg, sis absurd
/ will trade my knowledge of the west
with no man. There are hundreds of
power plants in the west.
But don't you believe that even if
there are a hundred or more power
companies they can be consolidated
into one concern, just as the Standard
Oil has done with oil wells"
STANDARD Oil Does Good"
STANDARD Oil has done good. ! am
not its defender, and l am not afraid
of it. But it is foolish talk Of consoli.
dating all the water power concerns
in this country. There are so many
streams where power can be devel
oped. 1t would be just as easy to con.
solidate all the railroads"
"How about Hartmann" it was sug
gested. "He has almost done it.
Eyes, and Hartman is almost dead
too? No man capable of such things
has successor Napoleon had no
successor, had hep
Mr.. Mctlarg, with copy of Presi.
dent Roosevelt's message before him,
from which he read copious extracts,
asserted in criticising the prediction
that unless restrained a water power
trust will be formed which will exact
tribute from our children, that the
doctrine of the survival of the fittest
should prevail.
81 don't want anybody to conserve
something for the weaklings," he de.
clared.
Mr.. McIIarg also expressed his
opinion of the people of this country
by declaring that 1.-THE truth of the
matter is only about ten per cent. of
them think at all"