The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-07-20
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EDITORIAL NOTES
BY j. I'D. WAITS ON
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rid of.
The charge against Dr. Wiley is misap-
plicaton of funds appropriated for a certain
use, and the facts are these:
An appropriation of $4,000 was made for
DR. Wiley to employ the services of another
expert at $4,000 per year; DR.. Wiley could
not get the eminent expert that he wanted at
that salary (about $11 per day., SO he con-
tracted for the services of the expert at $40
per day, and used him one hundred days in
the year. In this way he only used $4,000 of
the $4,000 appropriation, but his enemies saw
the chance to get him on the technicality of
paying more per day than the appropriation
called for, and they went after him.
Mr.. Wickersham reviewed the evidence in
the case, and instead of giving his legal opin-
ion as he should have, he took it upon him.
self to recommend Dr. Wiley's prompt dis
missal from the departments and right
there Wickersham put his foot in trap
His assumption of authority has aroused
the public, and brought on what will be a
thorough investigation of not only the De
partment OF Agriculture, but the department
over which Mr.. Wickersham rules, as we'll
Already it is shown that the greatest wrong
that DR.. Wiley has done is to enforce the
Pure Food and Drug laws for the benefit of
the public health. He has made the manufac-
turers of fake patent medicines and quack
doctors hunt cover; he has put stop to manu-
facturers of canned goods using poisonous
preservatives; he has made the Flour Trust
quit using bleaching powder in flour, and he
has made the JVhiskey Trust comply aOith the
Pure Food lar.
These and many other things DR.. Wiley
has done to protect the public against poison
GUS adulterations-and like all public serv-
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he will be made to suffer if possible Those
that lie has made obey the law will try to per-
secute HIM because he has stopped them from
robbing the public
But the public is with DR.. Wiley, and Con-
gress will see that he gets Justice.
Mr.. Taft will do well not to follow the adj
vice of his attorney general in this case, and
dismiss DR.. Wiley
The people are more powerful than even
the Whiskey Trust, the manufacturers of
adulterated drugs, the manufacturers of pois-
onous canned goods and the manufacturers of
adulterated flour all combined
Mr.. Taft will do well to heed the voice of
the people.
Attorney General Wickersham would have
Jared much better if he had paid more atten-
ton to his own business, and not dabbled in
the affairs of Ballinger, Pinchot CLAWS and
DR.. Wiley.
The delegate to Congress from Alaska,
whose name is also Wickersham, has put the
dogs on the trail of Attorney General Wick
ersham, and it looks as if the former partner
of Mr.. Taft's Trust lawyer brother will have
his hands busy explaining his own actions
For long time a few papers have dared
print accounts of high handed robbery that
was going on in Alaska in favor of the Nor
-Guggenheim crowd. Accounts of murder
have reached the ears of the outside world,
and the circumstances made it look as if the
crime was done by those in the employ of
the Morgan crowd.
Once Understands department pretended
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