The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-02-17

vice Of the great political graft ma
thine of our predatory bureaus, aptl
termed the conservation steam roller
by the cunning rolling" of which
our bureaucratic conspirators fondl,
hope, and really expect, to bring tn
whole vast public domain of the Unit
ed States under their personal contro
and administration-when they will
rave more political appointments t.
make than 1t now takes men to oper.
lite all the railroads in the United
States!
Fat job, Ell?
But, you say, some, or many, OF
hese positions will be under "civil
service rules" True, they will, but
you must not reckon without your
host, In that civil SERVICE" as admin
istered at Washington, stands only as
a plausible excuse for the appoint
ment of the mentally and morally I'M
fit, and grating politicians, to govern
ment offices and sinecures.
The most important help and assist
ance the survey has rendered the min
er, prospector, mining geologist, and
mining engineer, has been to delimit
the various rock formations at the
surface, determine their geological
and pathological relations, and assign
them names l. e. number the pages of
the book. These names and charac-
teristics are duly affixed, and record
ed, and become very convenient for
practical usage.
But, alas, even this prerogative of
naming the rocks has been ruthlessly
stripped from the United States geo.
logical survey by our predatory bur-
eaucrats who have prostituted all the
minor bureaus-the u. S. geological
survey most flagrantly of ALTO the
mental political service of the social
ed conservation party"
The writer yields precedence to no
one in his admiration and respect for
the United States geological survey
as it existed up to recent years. I'm
questionably, as a national geologic
survey, it stood at the head of the
world, until our conservation bureaus
dismantled it, so to speak, and reduc-
ed it to simple errand boy for taking
an inventory by classification" of the
bureaus coming vast estate, when the
general leasing bills are passed,
which the bureaus are now promoting
with feverish haste in congress.
We merely note in passing, that the
services of the United States bureau
of mines have also been misappropri-
ated to the private interests of DR..
Howard A. Kelley, or the National Ra-
dunn Institute of which he is the head,
and to the political interests Of the
interior department. The Kelley
Lane copartnership provides essential
ly that the United States bureau of
mines is to prospect, develop and OPP
crate mines for DR.. Kelley, build him
a radium reduction works, make said
doctor seven grams of radium-and
then our benevolent secretary of the
interior is to have the reduction plant
manufacture radium to sell at cost, or
give away, in his discretion! By such
cunning, illegal, and illicit means, has
he stopped the erection by private cap
ital of further radium reduction plants,
created the condition Of mo market"
for ores of radium; and compelled the
prospectors to drop their radium ore
claims by the hundreds, so that when
the general leasing bills are passed,
these lands will also fall to the secre-
tary of the interior to lease out" to
prospectors, or others. But all this Is
a small matter compared to the whole
sale debauchery of the United States
geological survey!
And our congressman dare not say
one word against this Illicit political
scheming Of our bureaus for fear that
If they do-they will not be allowed to
participate in the distribution of the
coming vast patronage when the gen.
eral leasing bills are passed!
No one particular party is alone to
blame for these conditions which have
now grown to be shocking to the sense
of honesty, decency and propriety, and
are simply intolerable! Each succeed
ing party in power has not the stom-
ach to clean itself, and the minority
party is helpless!
1t is the plain duty Of every mining
man and prospector every geologist
and mining engineer, to instantly write
the congressman from their states urg-
ing them to set these intolerable
wrongs Alright, and that if they fall to
take energetic steps, every mothers
son of us will take the stump against
them, when they come home for re-
election!
Our bureaus already have under
their control and administration, in
forest reserves alone, near two hun
dred million acres, and when the gen.
eral leasing bills are passed, the whole
public domain will fall under the adj
ministration Of our conservation"
bureaus, finally firmly in the saddle as
rulers of the grand feudal empire!
Greater than many Kingdoms of Eur
ope combined!
What coterie of politicians, pray,