Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-06

After hundreds of thousands of dollars
had been split up among the pOliti-
clans who had absorbed the indem-
nifty plums intended to reimburse
the farmers for dieased cattle, the
widow of a real farmer, Fannie
Warner, supporting Il little brood of
children with few cows, found her.
self squeezed out of the INNER circle
the case of Fannie Warner exposes
alI the evils of a system which, il
not hypocriticaI in origin, is farcial
and dangerous in application.
The task of fooling the farmer is an
easy one. The records of Otsego
county, N. Y. are duplicated all over
the country.
In Cortland county for 1915 and
1915, $9,OS4 was appropriated to help
the farmer replace with sound healthy
cows those of which the State had con-
demned and taken from him.
OF this amount eight influential
citizens split up $S,003. The balance,
$1,031, was split among six politicians.
The real farmers of the county re-
ceived nothing.
During the same period the poor
farmers of Duchess county were en-
couraged to the extent of $25,324.35.
OF this amount Assemblyman Walter
w. Law, Jr., member of the Wicks in
vestigating committee, received $1O,-
471.50, G. II. Perkins, treasurer of the
Democratic State committee and presi-
dent of the Poughkeepsie bank. ST.
1890. Six other important people re-
ceived on the average of $1,500 each
and the real farmers of the county re-
ceived nothing.
In Schoharie county within the same
period the politicians took $3,354.15.
tied it in a bundle and threw it away
first labelling it Money to be paid to
farmers to reimburse them for diseas-
ed COWS condemned on their hands
and killed by the State. This money
is intended to enable them to substi-
ltute for their lost property clean, sound
animals that will help them to build
up healthy, milk-producing herds.
When the bundle fell it's contents
were divided among six gentlemen the
first of whom, Charles A. Weiting, is
State fair commissioner, formerly State
commissioner of agriculture. Weiting
has been on the State payroll since
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was gov
ernor. since which time he has drawn
in salary S150,000
Weiting's friend Wallace II. Sidney.
attorney and Democratic leader in
Schoharie county was number two
among the chosen six.
Number three was j. Van Wagner.
Jr., lecturer of the Farmers Institute,
! an appointee of Weiting.
Number four was w. e. Basler Re-
publican leader of the county.
Number five and number six are un-
important.
When they finished the division of
the spoils s2S9.50 remained to satisfy
the claims of a real farmer Alba
Foote. of Esperance. The widow of a
farmer, Fannie Warner, was left out
in the cold.
Fannie Warner supports. little
brood of children. She has no vote.
She kept few cows. The State con-
demned them. The cows were worth
S216. The officials appraised them at
80 per cent. of their value and came
to the conclusion that the good woman
should receive s172.50. with which to
buy a few fresh. healthy COWS.
Unfortunately for her peace of mind
and the comfort of her children. the
influential politicians had grabbed all
the money of the s3O2. 700 provided by
the legislature for the purpose of TAX