Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-08-16
SPECIAL WASHINGTON CORRES-
PQNQENCE. -.
BY Clyde H. Tavenner


the fact that one George P. AlcCabe,
of whom nobody ever had heard pre-
viously, had appropriated to himself
the sole right to determine when
manufactures of adulterated foods
should be prosecuted. The use
less" committee also discovered that
this same NIcCabe, who is a solicit
or in the Department Of Agriculture.
had so framed the language of the
lay under which the pure food law
lis administered that DR.. H. w. VIII
ey, the government chemist, would
be bound, gagged and strangled when
it came time for him to prosecute
the food dopes.
And regardless of how many fits
Leader Mann and the other republi-
cans may throw, the democrats in
congress are satisfied that these
disclosures concerning the high hand
ed manner in which departmental
| subordinates override and nullify the
laws passed by congress are more
than sufficient excuse for the inves-
legations now being conducted.
General Order No. 140," was is
sued last winter, and after it was is
sued DR.. Wiley might just as well
have thrown up his hands and quit
as far as an effective administration
Of the pure food law was concerned
because this order deprived him OF
| the right "to recommend prosecu
tons of pure food law violators.'
j Unless there was somebody with the
interest of the people at heart tt
recommend such prosecutions non'
: would be recommended, much less
strated And that was exactly wha
the food dopers wanted.
McCabe issued General Orde
No. 14O" himself. He admitted tina
much to the Wiley investigating
committee.
"Under that order DR.. Wiley wa
: relieved of all authority, and yo
yourself became the administrator q
the pure food laws. Isn't that abou
IT." asked Attorney Davis, for til
committee, when he was examinin
, McCabe
McCabe admitted that such wa
the case.
The discovery of the manner j
) which affairs have been administer
# ed in the Agriculture department
9 especially with reference to the az
ministration of the pure food law
: has thoroughly angered the demo
= Gratis in congress, and it is safe t
e say that when it comes time t
S frame the next Agriculture appropr
y alton the democratic majority c
the committee will see to it tina
the language ct the law is mad
sufficiently specific to prevent NOR
e government clerks setting themselve
Iup as of more importance than cor
! gress itself.
I, This same AIcCabe admitted tha
he favored benzoate Of soda as
food preventative, and that h
+ travelled al over the country, at gov
I eminent expense. to line up delegate
!, to vote to endorse it when tn
ques ton came up at the Nationa
Food and Drugs congress at Denvc
last year. Just why McCabe is s.
greatly interested in seeing to
that the food dopers may use Wha
, they please in their products, AM
hen escape all prosecution unde
the food law, has not been disclosed
: ~ the investigating committee-yet.
| One of the best evidences of tn
fact that the republican party:
: ancient argument about the neces-
| sity of a high tariff to maintain
;'the high American wage" is farce
pure and simple, is the presence IL
this country at the present time o
: agents Of Canadian manufacturers
: who are sending back stories abou
, the danger of competition with 'loN
American wages in the event Can
asa adopts the reciprocity treaty
These men are gathering facts abou
the real conditions of the American
working men, and they are demon
strating pretty thoroughly that "tht
high American wage exists NO
where except in the fervid magma
ions of the tariff protected American
trusts.
Recently, Representative John Dial
zcll, who comes to Washington from
he Pittsburs district in which the
stee. trust has it's largest plants.
got 10 on the floor of the House and
made f!ori. speech about the i'm
possibility CT American wooden manu-
facturers competing with the lower
paid wooden goods laborers of
Europe. and urged that instead OF
cutting the wooden tariff it should
be raised. DalZell care little about
what happens to the wooden manu-
factu-ers. but he realizes that cut.
in the wooden manufacturers. but he
realizes that cut in the wooden
tariff will be followed by cut in
the sacred tariff on his beloved steel.
| Contrast Dalzell pleading for the
| high American wage" in his
speeches in congress with the fact
that the Canadian manufacturers are
urging the defeat of reciprocity on
the er1unI that they can't compete
with Tic products turned out by the
labor OF American factories. Demo
cratic leaders in congress say that
nothing more completely skaters
the old stard pat argument about
| high wages in this country than
| this attitude of the Canadians They