The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-02-17
Political Perversion of the United
States Geological Survey
(Chester T. Kennan)

: of the United States geological surve,
to taking this inventory by classified
tion?"
Don't the sagacious miner know tht
difference between quartz gold hedges
and level patch of bottom land gooC
for alfalfa?
Can't the poor homesteader see The
difference between kindly soil for pc.
tatoes, and bald granite crags and
peaks piercing the skies?
Can't the astute cattle man distin-
guish the difference between park
lands with grass belly-high to his
steers, and floor of barren rock only
good for the rain to fall on?
Don't the respective vocations OF
these men especially fit them to
Classify" these lands for themselves,
and haven't they heretofore CLASH
fled" them for themselves with mark
ed skill and sagacity?
Oh, yes, of course-but the taking
of this inventory by classification"
through the United States geological
survey is not for the benefit of us,
mere citizens!
He must be blind indeed, and wholly
lacking in ordinary human knowledge
and sagacity, who can not see that
when our bureaus general leasing
bills" are passed, and the whole vast
public domain falls under the person.
al control of our bureauerals to lease
out to the miners, farmers, stockmen,
fruit growers, ETC., etc, etc, we, mere
citizens, will be called upon to defray
the salaries and expenses of million
political taskmasters to administer"
the grand estate! Forest rangers,
farm rangers, fruit rangers, grazing
rangers, mining rangers, mineral ex
ors, attorneys, appraisers, notaries
public, press agents, statisticians,
common spies, lecturers, muckrakers,
detectives, special agents, secret SER
vice agents, affidavit cleaners, lease
drafters, bargain makers, star cham
Der courts, collectors of rents, and
bills, and royalties, and tithes, and
graft. And our predatory bureaucrats
especially our superamiable secre-
tary of the interior, and the secretary
of agriculture, also, our dear president,
~ fn iY, oI
just how many, what kinds, and how
fat will be the offices, sinecures, per-
quisites, power, patronage, and graft
they can promise their political sup
porters, henchmen and "healers" in
the near coming presidential cam
paign!
But who pays for all this?
We, mere citizens, should worry!
That is a question which will reach
to your pocketbook, If it never does to
your head.
The United States geological survey
has long since ceased to exercise the
functions for which it was chartered
by congress.
The opportunity is just now most
brilliant for the present congress to
sturdily maintain it's own honor, and
the respect Of the people of this coun-
try, by OPPORTUNITY shooting two birds
with one arrow--their necks are cross
ed.
One-In order to eliminate the
United States geological survey from
the slums of venal, disgraceful, graft
ing politics, abolish it for a few years,
and then reorganize it as an independ-
ent bureau.
Two-Apply the money thus saved
to buying new guns which the presi
dent says we need, or incidently, per-
haps, there will be enough so derived
to obviate the necessity of cursing the
presidents party every time a citizen
ticks war stamp in times of pro-
found peace at home!
No wonder that all our great geolo-
gists, admired and respected by all the
world, and headed by such men as Drs.
Spur, VanHise, Prison, Ball, Bout
we'll, Weed and Lindgren, have sever
ed their connection with the survey in
sheer disgust, thereby vastly increas-
ing the high esteem in which they are
held by declining to prostitute their
great talents to the mental political
service of our bureaucratic land
sharks now exploiting our public do
main.
Through the absence of all our great
biologists from the survey, we are now
compelled to extend our highest es-
TEEN to our national geological survey
that was-not to the one that is.
SUPPLIES FOR AMAZON DIXIE.
Manager Hikes Over Hill With To-
boggan Load of Grub.
Wesley Everett, manager Of the
Amazon Dixie who with Mrs. Everett
has been detained in this city since
the Northern Pacific was closed to
traffic, has found it necessary to get
4o bo NINA of Cildix and the