The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-06-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
BY c. H. Tavenner.


Agriculture, is the author of two
OF the most remarkable and as.
tonishing statements ever made
by a man charged with his re
sponsibility to the people.
First, in reply to the proven
fact that land sharks were cheat
ing unsuspecting people out Of
millions of dollars through the
sale of worthless land that hac
been CONDEMNED in a report by one
OF the engineers of his depart.
ment, which report Wilson
caused to be suppressed, the Sec.
rotary said:
I'm NOT RUNNING THIS DEPART
MENT TO PROTECT FOOLS"
Second, in reply to the undis,
puted evidence that government
meat inspectors, working under
the direction of the Department
OF Agriculture, had permitted
5000, 600 diseased carcases of an
imals to pass the inspection tests,
Mr.. Wilson said:
TO ENFORCE THE LAW WOULD
MEAN ENORMOUS MONEY LOSS, A
SINFUL WASTE OF FOOD, AND A
HARDSHIP UPON THOSE WHO SOLD
THE DISEASED ANIMALS"
The truth about Secretary Will
son is this: He is trusting,
easy going old man who is past
his usefulness, and who has al
lowed, perhaps unknowingly, a
group of younger men who are
crafty schemers to gain the up
per hand in his department.
Attached to Wilson's depart
ment is a young man named Nc
Cabe. He is one of the depart
ment lawyers, whose duty it is
to pass upon legal questions that
come before the department.
McCabe long ago perceived that
Wilson, to use a street term,
was easy, and accordingly he
began to usurp powers and priv
ileges which did not belong to
him, and which it was never
meant that he should have.
First this man McCabe began to
hamper DR.. Wiley, who admit
tedly was the most efficient pub
lie servant in Washington. Nc
Cabe so hampered and so har-
raised Wiley that the latter, af-
ter nearly thirty years of faithful
service was driven from the gov
eminent service.
With Wiley gone, McCabe
turned his talent to other direc-
tons. He then began to ham,
per the work of the meat inspec-
tors, 80 that gradually, under a
series of legal interpretation"
of the intent of Congress in the
matter of the pure food law, he
dragged down the standard of
the meat inspection tests.
Back of McCabe when he was
hamperine Wiley were the food
dopers. and back of him when he
lulled> Wilson into suppressing
the land report were the land
sharks, and back of him now, in
his efforts to kill the meat in
spection law, is the beef trust.
And back of McCabe and Will
son, with his solid, deaf bulk to
give them all the protection they
need, is president Taft.
STILL SOAKING THE CONSUMER
Once more the poor old patient
consumer must dig down into his
pockets and pay tribute to q
trust. This time it is the Goa
trust, for the announcement has
been made that the usual spring
and summer discounts of 30 cents
per ton will not be allowed this
year.
The excuse given for this la
test raid on the public's purse is
that there is a shortage, and tina
it cost more to mine coal, on &C
count of the increased pay grant
ed the miners.
1t is known that there is M
coal shortage. The coal trust ex
pected, long before the expira
ton of the miners contracts il
April, that there would be shut
down, and in anticipation of tina
shutdown they stored nm vas