The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-16

ioau Ile STORY OF 0ur Ch2ef M0glSt10tes bei71q
1raested on the hlgh2cay for piozQtinq a speed
laa0. : ~
Of course, the arresting officers apoloeized
lhumbly, profusely, when the identity Of the
law-breaker was smilingly disclosed.
HE cussed the President, was the merry
headline Of humorous sketch in one of the
New England papers. Beneath the headline.
was the account of how the village black
smith had almost been run down by a BIG au-
tomoblle, and how he had sworn at the
scorcher, as the machine flew by. The car
a0as President Taft's. The blacksmith was
severely chided by his neighbors for his unin-
territorial disrespect to the Chief Executive
And so it goes Golf, ball games, horse
shows, Yale gala days, boating parties club
festivities, auto spins, and smiling poses be-
fore cameras After enduring this kind of
thing all summer are informed that the
New England levlties are to be followed by
an elaborate junket of 1900 miles, in which
our President will give the people chance
to look at him, and hear him, as he stands on
the rear platform of luxurious special. and
defends the damnable Aldrich bill
''Its enough to maize preacher cuss.n
A heartless monopoly, made by the Tariff,
has been starving its workmen, brutally club
blng its workmen, cheating and swindling it's
workmen, sending mounted troopers to ruth
lessly ride down the wives and children of it's
workmen, manning and killing its worIzmen,
and during the whole grewsome, hideous
Carnival of Crime against humanity and
good government, the Chief Euecutive, didn't
mass q single turn at golf, single stage IN
the daily round Of personal pleasure. -
A corporation henchman, Ballinger, was
taken into the Cabinet, apparently at the in
stance Of the General Electric Power Trust
q. P. Morgan), and the very first official
thing he did was to throw open to settlement
hundreds of thousands of acres of land that
Pinchot and Roosevelt had withdrawn I'M
mediately after this letting down of the bars,
the Morgan crowd, according to Pinchot,
grabbed the power sites on this land,-power
sites which they had long coveted. Then a
row was raised, and Ballinger withdrew the
land, but the Power Trust. had already got
what it wanted.
Pinchot is a wealthy man of the highest
type who is serving his country at a personal
sacrifice and from motives of pure patriot
ism. Ballinger is doubtful character whose
record is bad, and whose affiliations with
greedy corporations is notorious. Why did
the President put such a man in his Cabinet
at all And why has he shown no DISPOSE
ton to look into the case that Pinchot pre-
sents? Before great Conservation Congress,
PmchOt denounced Balllnger, and accused
him of allowing the Copper Trust and the
General Electric to grab the 15,808 acres that
cinched the monopoly. The whole country
has rung with the scandal. The issues at
stake are of supreme importance. Not only
are vital interests of the people involved, but
the honor of the administration is at stake
Why doesn't Mr. Taft take hold of this stu
alton and straighten things out? Either
Pinchot ought to be fired for bearing false
witness against fellow official, or Ballinger