Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-07-04
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

sion of the legislature to defeat any
grain inspection legislation in order
that the Kansas City Board of Trade
might continue its strang,e-hOld On
the grain trade OF that town. Through
the help of Bob Stone he succeeded
in accomplishing his purpose. He is
now telling that legislation was de-
teated because the administration
was determined to have compulsory
inspection and no qualifications for
inspectors, so that political favorites
might be, named to take charge Of
the department. That Smiley is just
a plain, ordinary liar is the verdict
. Of every man who investigates the
case.
Mr.. ]. A. Lyons of Langdon, Presi-
dent of the Kansas Farmers Grain
Dealers Association, has been investi-
eating this matter and writes to this
office as follows:
Il have read the three inspection
bills that were before the last legis-
Iature. l want to say as to the Sen
ate amendments, that l was very
much misinformed and / am mighty
glad that you have put me right.
AT the Hutchinson meeting, called
by the Farmers Elevators Of the
state to protest against the Hines
bill, it was even stated that we could
not ship corn and oats without state
inspection and as our corn and oats I
is always, or nearly always, so ship
ped on our own grades, and weights,
the statement just put the fellows up
in the air and l am mighty glad that
] was misinfOrmed. l believe l could
give my endorsement to the bill as
amended by the senate. As to the
charge that the administration had 8
pets to take care OF .wwas the reason
the qualification proyiso was cut out, c
I find in oloking over the bill that 6
this also was not fact. While they '
changed it somewhat, yet If person S
cannot learn to Judge grain in two
years, he would never learn it. It Z
does seem as if this man Smiley
wants to stir up trouble or he would L
certainly have shown up the bill as (
, amended by the Senate in the right O
light if he wanted to be honest with t
the grain trade.'' q
The stand the administration took 4
on the matter of grain inspection can t
be summed up in two sentences: f
LIST. No inspection unless the own n
er Of the grain calls for an inspection v
End. If inspection is called for the
state will inspect and Boards of Trade t
and grain gamblers must keep out. 1
The following paragraph from the v
pen Of Harvey Parsons, the State I
Journal" philosopher, contains in six {
lines the sum and substance of all |
the noise that is being made with ref
erence to the wreck and ruin" of
divers and sundry state institutions:
Every time you hear a shrek of
anguish, like the last zip of a Chris
tan martyr when he met one of Mr..
Nero's peet lions, that means that
some state job hOlder-vintage of the
Stubs dynasty = has. been pried
loose"
1t is the old story of party long
entrenched in power. The job hold
; ers conceive the idea that they have
a special ownership in the various
state institutions and that the welfare
OF the institutions and of the state {
depends on their continuance in pow
er. When some one comes along and !
prizes them loose, they and their /
friends Immediately begin to talk
about the spoils system and how beat
tiful and Christian like itwould be il l
Just be content to let them remain
Just be conentt to let them remain
at the public crib.
Let it be known now that it is a
part of the business" of this admin.
istration to give the jobs to Demo {
Gratis just as fast as vacancies can be {
made and efficient Democrats select
ed.
A certain newspaper out in Greeley I
county, owned by somebody whose t
name have forgotten, last week /
emitted a wall on the subject of irri- t
cation. The whole trouble seems to
be that the State Board of Irrigation
is not disposed to sQuander $125, 900 I
of the peoples money during the {
first three months of its existence.
1t is currently rumored that the origi- /
nal promoters of this irrigation pro- t
1ect expected that they would be able !
to dictate how this money should be