THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1906. 
765 
THE WADSWORTH ISSUE IS "OLEO 
It is announced that Speaker Cannon will make an 
address in Congressman Wadsworth’s district just be¬ 
fore election. Tins must be regarded as a confession 
of weakness,‘a desperate attempt to help a failing cause. 
Two years ago Mr. Wadsworth had nearly 13,000 ma¬ 
jority. Now he must appeal to the overworked Speaker 
of the House to help him. This is the best evidence of 
the great revolt from Mr. Wadsworth which has yet 
appeared. There lias never been anything like it in the 
district before, and Mr. Cannon will not be able to 
overcome it, because no political question is involved. 
Mr. Cannon cannot claim that Wadsworth’s defeat 
would endanger the Republican majority, for there is 
no Democrat running against him! His opponent is a 
Republican. When he comes to explain how the meat 
inspection bill was passed, Mr. Cannon, if he states 
the facts, will place Air. Wadsworth in a very poor light. 
We have shown what a sorry figure Wadsworth cut. As 
Congressman Henry says, he held up the bill until the 
managers of the beef trust could organize opposition. 
He then fathered a bill which was cursed by President 
Roosevelt, and left Washington without trying to im¬ 
prove the situation. While he was gone Congressman 
Adams of Wisconsin and Speaker Cannon agreed with 
the President and prepared the bill that was finally 
passed. In his attitude toward witnesses before his 
committee Mr. Wadsworth acted like a bullying lawyer 
for the beef trust. In his correspondence with the 
President he acted like a spoiled child, upon whom 
Speaker Cannon found it necessary to use a shingle! 
It will be interesting to see how Mr. Cannon will talk 
around this bit of history. A plain statement of the 
facts will place Mr. Wadsworth in a worse light than 
ever. Praise for Mr. Adams is condemnation for Mr. 
Wadsworth. Possibly Mr. Cannon will make light of 
these details or even deny them, since the chief actor— 
the man who did most to make an effective bill possible, 
Henry C. Adams, is dead. Should Air. Cannon make 
such denial, we remind him beforehand of the powerful 
significance of the fifth verse of the fifth chapter of 
Daniel: 
“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, 
and rerote over against the candlestick upon the plaster 
of the wall of the King’s palace—and the King saw the 
part of the hand that wrote.” 
But this is the smallest part of the indictment against 
Wadsworth. He tried his best to give the packers what 
they wanted, but President Roosevelt forced him to 
submit to tire passage of a stronger law. He cannot 
weaken it now. but he can do great damage in another 
way in his present position. The danger from him 
lies in the oleomargarine situation. He has been se¬ 
lected as the friend and champion of those who want 
the tax removed from colored oleo. Every man who 
makes, handles or eats pure butter will understand what 
that would mean. The oleo men will make a strong 
effort to destroy or weaken the effect of the present 
law. On the other hand experience has shown that the 
present law must be strengthened in several ways in 
order to prevent the fraudulent sale of oleo. Dairymen 
cannot trust Air. Wadsworth in view of his record, 
while the friends of oleo “endorse” him. Thus the 
issue is made clear and sharp. Are the voters of the 
Thirty-fourth District in favor of giving colored oleo 
the chance to compete with honest butter? Will they 
give equal rights to a counterfeit? As the situation is 
now shaped, they cannot vote for Mr. Wadsworth with¬ 
out giving assent to that proposition. Mr. Cannon may 
talk all night about the tariff, the labor question, the 
Panama Canal, Cuba or the record of Congress, but 
such talk will have no bearing upon the vital issue in 
the Thirty-fourth District. So far as these matters are 
concerned it will not make the difference of a hair’s 
breadth whether Air. Wadsworth is elected or defeated— 
for a strong and vigorous Republican is opposed to him. 
Air. Cannon will find that the contest has been lifted 
far above ordinary politics. It is the first direct Con¬ 
gressional battle for the rights which belong to agricul¬ 
ture which we have had in this country. Free, uncolored 
oleo means, as it always has, the fraudulent' sale of 
an inferior fat—dishonesty. The present law means a 
fair chance 1 for thousands of dairymen to make an hon¬ 
est living. .More than that, it is a precedent for legis¬ 
lation against other food frauds which may injure other 
farmers. The present pure food law would have been 
impossible had not the oleo question been fought out 
right. In this contest Air. Wadsworth has been put by 
his friends into the position of champion of oleo—which 
means to the majority of his constituents—dishonesty. 
If he is elected—that is what the farmers of his dis¬ 
trict must stand for. Speaker Cannon might well de¬ 
vote a part of his speech to telling where he stands on 
oleo legislation. Two bills will come before Congress— 
one seeks to remove the tax on colored oleo, the other 
seeks to strengthen the present law. Which will Mr. 
Cannon support? No oleo Congressman from a 
farmer’s district! _ 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The amendment to the New York State Labor 
law prohibiting the employment of children under sixteen 
in any business after 7 I*! M. went into effect October 1. 
Children under 10 employed in “mercantile establishments, 
business offices, factories, telegraph offices, restaurants, ho¬ 
tels, apartment houses, and by companies which employ 
children for the transmission of merchandise or messages” 
cannot work, under any circumstances, after 7 I’. M. The 
law will be enforced throughout the State. Children were 
permitted to work in factories until nine o’clock, and in 
stores and establishments other than factories until 10 
I’. M., but this ceased when the new law became operative. 
Testimony of a number of witnesses before C. A. 
I’routy of tb 1 Interstate Commerce Commission at Denver, 
Col., who resumed September 27 the investigation of rail¬ 
roads in connection with coaj conditions, showed that 
the Union Pacific secured many men to sign declaratory 
coal statements taking up coal lands in Wyoming and at 
the same time to sign relinquishments to this land. The 
pay for this service was $3 or $4 in each instance. Among 
tin' witnesses examined was Cyrus Beard, justice of the 
Supreme Court of Wyoming, who, it developed, purchased 
coal lands with money advanced by a Union Pacific official 
and later sold the property to this official at an advance 
of $200. . . . Secretary Martin of the Massachusetts 
State Board of Education was appealed to September 2!) for 
some solution to the conflict of the Massachusetts game 
laws and the compulsory school attendance law. The cause 
of this unique dilemma is-the number of deer in Franklin 
County which have chased children on their way to school 
and so frightened them that many have remained at home. 
On account of the game laws, which prohibit the shooting 
of deer in that State until 1008, no stops can be taken 
toward retaliating on the animals. In the town of Leyden 
one small boy was chased by a vicious buck and was 
obliged to return home. The lad’s grandfather, however, 
accompanied the child to school without further molesta¬ 
tion. but when the boy was returning home lie was chased 
again. In the town of Greenfield several children were 
obliged to take refuge in a power house because of an attack 
by a herd of deer and were kept there several hours before 
it was thought safe for them to proceed. As vigorous steps 
have been taken the past year to enforce the compulsory 
school attendance iaw in (he Western part of the State, 
parents of children who live where deer are plentiful have 
written Secretary Martin asking him what to do in the 
matter. . . . Scores of lives are believed to have been 
lost in the hurricane which on September 2(! swept upon 
'he Gulf Coast, and continued for 48 hours, causing enor¬ 
mous and widespread destruction. The wind attained a 
velocity of from 80 to 00 miles an hour, and vented Its 
fury mostly upon Pensacola. Fla., and Mobile, Ala., where 
the damage in each city is estimated at from $3,000,000 to 
$5,000,000. The sea was blown far up into these cities, 
flooding the streets in some quarters to a depth of seven 
feet. One gunboat and two tugs have been sunk, two other 
gunboats, a tug and a coal barge are beached, a gunboat 
is leaking, a drydock and wharves have been destroyed and 
incalculable damage to other Government property at the 
Pensacola Navy Yard has been done by the West India 
hurricane. The gunboat Machias sank at her moorings. 
The converted gunboat Gloucester and Vixen, the smallest 
vessels which look part in the naval battle at Santiago, 
are beached high and dry. The devastation wrought among 
the shipping at Mobile also was very heavy. The horrors 
of the situation at Pensacola were increased by an outbreak 
of fire and the activity of thieves, who looted houses that 
the inmates had been forced to abandon. Provisions are 
scarce and the distress great in both cities. Loss of life, 
variously estimated at from five to fifty persons; many 
persons injured, 5.000 houses damaged, the business quar¬ 
ter devastated, and a property loss of fully $3,000,000 are 
the effect of the tropical hurricane in Mobile. Water from 
Mobile Kay was blown into the city by the gale, and for a 
time the sea stood seven feet deep in the wholesale quarter, 
which includes that part of tlie city from Koyal street to 
the Alabama River. . . . Robert L. Rodgers, Attorney- 
General of the State of Arkansas, and his assistants, J. E. 
Bradshaw and .Tames II. Stevenson, started an investiga¬ 
tion October 1 in Chicago which may result in the collec¬ 
tion of $200,000 in fines from the packing houses of Chi¬ 
cago. More than fifty persons have been summoned to 
testify about the operation of a packers’ trust in Arkansas. 
It. is charged by the legal representatives of Arkansas that 
the firms of Armour & Co., Swift & Co., the Cudahy Pack¬ 
ing Company and the G. If. Ilammond Company violated 
the anti-trust laws of that State for the last six 'months of 
the year 1905. The suits that have been started are for 
the purpose of collecting a minimum fine of $200 a day from 
each of the Mg packing companies doing business in Ar¬ 
kansas. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The fifteenth Fall convention of 
the Connecticut Bee Keepers’ Association was held in the 
State Capitol, Hartford. October 12. 
The fifty-first annual meeting of the New York State As¬ 
sociation of School Commissioners and Superintendents was 
held at Cornell University October 3-5. Prof. I,. H. Bailey 
gave an address on “Reorganization of Rural Schools.” 
CROP PROSPECTS . 
The apple crop in this vicinity is a total failure. Not 
enough fruit can he gleaned from the whole orchard to sup¬ 
ply the family till Christmas. Pears were also light, though 
some' varieties were exceptions. On account of the wet 
season pasture and forage crops have given a heavier yield 
than usual. The frost has held off so far. allowing the 
corn crops to mature and be harvested in good condition. 
Sewickley, Pa. e. b. m’b. 
The apple crop in this section is large, more perfect and 
freer from the rot than usual, but the prices are no better. 
Jonathan, culled one-lmlf, $1 : Ben Davis is the principal 
crop: sve have no offer on them yet. Evaporator stock, 
15 to 20 cents per 100 pounds. Some orchards have been 
cut down, others will be. No commercial orchards have 
been set out for past five years; the apple craze is over 
in this section. a. w. b. 
Xenia, Ill. 
I have just finished looking over the apple crop, and find 
that it will be from one-third to one-lmlf of last year's 
crop. I have never seen apples dropping so badly at this 
season as they are at present, Baldwin especially. Even 
in orchards that were thoroughly sprayed they are inclined 
to be wormy. All kinds of pests have seemingly multiplied 
very fast during the past week. Last April was very favor¬ 
able for spraying with lime and sulphur, and I thought 
my orchards, from which I picked last year 2.500 barrels 
of very fine apples, were thoroughly covered with the mix¬ 
ture, but from the increase of the scale lately I am very 
much discouraged. c. R. s. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
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