Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-16
the WILEY CASE.

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the WILEY CASE.
d. wiley comes out Of the invesu-
CATION Of the Wackershan charges on
TOP OF the heap. Nckersham suffered
Q complete check, while the presi-
dent lets his attorney general down
- sasily a. possible he hnds
that the charges were unproven thus
putting the attorney general in the
position Of bringing charges against
the pure food man which he could not
sustain by evidence. Secretary Will
son, we are told Ia to remain in tho
cabinet for tho time at least. He makes
no motion toward his hat and II u not
to be handed to him. However. 1t -
made clear BY the president that the
Agricultural department il In very
unsatisfactory condition.
However. 1t 10 hard to zee wherein
the charge Of disingenuousness"
lodged by the president against Doctors
Biselov and Ksbler should not stand
against DR.. Wiley also. Thsfs 10 no
doubt that d. Wiley waA aware OF the
arran4en.ao4 With Dr.. Rusby and that
tho evasion Of the ruling ~ to employ
ment and pay Of experts 10 common in
every department OF the government.
As to "disengsnuousness' the charges
brought without evidence in hand by
tho attorney general and the anti
wiieyites seem to make a record Of
"disingenuousness." There seems to
have been q severe lack Of ingenious
ness among those who were working
the notification OF the pure food law in
the agricultural department 1t r
CURED an investigation. a show down
before the highest authority to get
Wiley a hearing and establish the de-
partmental right OF his bureau to do
the duty for which it was established
dent, considers these men over Jealous.
1t is not unlikely that there will be dis
agreement with his understanding and
that tina public will conAder that they
were forced to defend In the best way
they might the over Jealous assaults
of the opDonsntS Of tho pure food law
against those whose interests demand
ed its suspension
In the game Of politics Kebler and
Bigelow ays not In the kinsrow; Wiley
and Wilson are.
The Sustention OF Wiley Is scarcely
enough unless there is to be a reversal
OF the policy Of tho department toward
the pure food bureau. In fact Wiley's
retention or dismissal were only con-
tingencies. Tho real issue at stake was
whether or not the pure food law was
to DO enforced or nullthed in the depart
rusnx charged with it's execution. The
public was Interested IN Wiley because
hs personally appeared to represent
law enforcement In the department. 1t
was Interested in McCabe because he
seemed to be there for the plain pur-
pose Of thwarting the operation Of the
law.
Now that wiley's csc IL settled what
Of the pure food law? It IL to be en-
forced in all it, provisions or not? And
who 10 to enforce It? Wiley or VIII
son or both? Under the circumstances
what 10 to bs doing and who is to do It.
We are inclined very much as .
people TO be too we'll satisfied with too
little. Lists remember that the Wiley
case was not q psrsonal attack upon
wiley but an assault upon the integ-
1ity OF . governmental department
charged with duty which 1t had failed
to perform and which had been
thwsrted deliberately within the de-
partment and insist that later results
show that the verdict was for the pure
food law az well as in then incidental
case Of Or. Wiley.