The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1911-07-29
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Washington, ID. G., July 81, H..
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Washington, ID. G., July 81, II.
| ATTACK ON DIR WILEY.
| In the past few days President
Taft has acquiesced in if not ac-
tually approved the effort to re
move Dir. Wiley from the lassltion
of Chief Chemist Of the Agrlcul.
tural Department. This affair
has developed the greatest poll
tical sensation that Washington
has experienced in more than a
year. The great food Gamers
through out the country, were be
fore the pure food law was enacted
extensive users of poisonous pre-
servatives in their canned goods
DIR. Wiley as Chief Chemist of
the Agricultural Department and
therefore executive of the pure
food law. has been relentless in
his fight for pure food and he has
struck sledge hammer blows at
food adnlteratOrs and users of
poisonous preservatives wherever
he found them.
CAUSE OF THE ATTACK.
These food manufacturers which
include meat Gamers of Chicago
and elsewhere and vegetable and
fruit Gamers all over the country
are anxious to have DR.. Wiley re-
moved as they have power enough
with the Republican party to
nanfe "their own man" az his
successor. They would then have
no difficulty whatever with our
pure food laws as they would own
the. judge so to speak. The
Standard Oil Company and other
great companies do not care very
much what kind of laws We pass
because they are the ones, who
through our Presidents always
name the judges who nullify the
laws and let the Corporations e.
cape fines. The charge against
DR.. Wiley is that he pei mitted
chemical expert assistant to draw
a little larger salary than was au.
thorized by the law.
Even this is tar fetched. The
law authorizes DR.. Wiley to pay
81, 600 a year for an expert assis
tant, but the fact IS, expert chem
lists cannot be had for such 4
price as thar. So DIR. Wiley ap
pointed Dr.. Kusby of New York |
as his assistant at 81, 600 per year,
with the understanding that DR..
RusDy would receive $40 per day
for the work that he did ID
the laboratory; and under this
arrangement he would not be
working more than a part of the
time, but would draw 500 per day
out of the 81, GOO per annum when
be did work. DR.. Wiley's depart
ment was investigated by AttOr
ney General Wickersham aud he
recommended that Or. Wiley be
permitted to resign. The fact of the
matter is, the whole affair was
trumped up to scare DIR. Wiley
into resigning. But those who
thought he would resign have an
other guess coming TO them. DR..
Wiley has rendered the greatest
service TO this country of any man
alive today. and the effort which
was made to Oust him resulted in
letters pouring into the White
House by the thousands.
This whole affair shows how
the Republican party
is to corrupt men and measures.
The food Gamers of course will be
heavy contributors to the republi-
can campaign fund next year If
Wiley is fred, and Taft is willing,
if public opinion can be hushed
up. But it cannot be.
ALASKAN EXPLO-
SION.
The public was wondering all
along during the time charges
were pending against Secretary
BalllDger, why Taft persisted IN
keeping such u man in his cabinet.
It has now leaked out. that
when Ballinger was trying to slip
the valuable mineral lands OF
Alaska to the Gnggenheim Nor
gan crowd that Charles P Taft \
millionaire brother to the Presi-
dent was also Interested in the
fraud that was about to be per
pctrated on Uncle Sam. 1t il
generally believed among the po'
liticians that the government al
Washington is now the rOttenest
III political corruption that has
ever been known in the history OF
this country.
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