EDITORIALS
Ballinger's Nemesis FATE appears to pursue Secretary Ballinger. Remarkable coincidences have emphasized, most dramatically, the testimony of witnesses in the Washington investigation of the...
...The fact must eventually become universally recognized that the "consumption value" of commodities as classified in the tariff belongs to the realm of the unknown...
...Pinchot showed conclusively that he had obtained the consent of his cabinet superior, Secretary Wilson, before sending the Dolliver letter...
...and it developed that Vertrees owes his prominence mostly to his connection with the Louisville & Nashville railroad, the dominating political power of that central western region...
...But the most remarkable coincidence came when the testimony as to the value and destiny of the Cunningham claims was being taken before the investigating committee from pro-Pinchot witnesses, the manager and attorney of the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska syndicate was filing with the Senate committee on territories a statement verifying the assertions as to value and admitting that the syndicate not only had had an option on the claims, but that option was held today and that the syndicate expected to enforce it if ever the claims were patented by the land office...
...Taft's Figures on "Consumption Value" THE Lincoln Day speech at New York, having been mad« the definitive, if not the final administration utterance on the tariff, the figures used by President Taft to prove by the "consumption value" of the things upon which the tariff has been raised and lowered that we are now living under a lower tariff than that of Mr...
...Nemesis of old, your exploits are as nothing to this...
...Pinchot was removed from office on the charge of insubordination in sending to Senator Dolliver a letter, the sending of which was construed to violate an executive order prohibiting it...
...These figures were used first by the President in his Winona speech...
...The President and his Cabinet considered matters and decided that counsel mast be retained...
...Any attempt at its calculation must fizzle out in wild guess and conjecture...
...and the arguments based on it must fall to the ground, and leave the President sorry for having adopted deceptive figures coming from unknown sources and furnished by unnamed persons...
...Mr...
...But the correspondent—carelessly, or otherwise—neglected to state who compose this "Republican syndicate," and whose money is being used to finance it...
...Henry M. Hoyt, now attorney general of Porto Rico, hitherto assistant attorney general of the United States, swore before the investigating committee that the name of Ballinger was so omitted...
...A newspaper despatch reports that "a republican syndicate" has bought a newspaper and is going to establish five others to boom Postmaster General Hitchcock for United States Senator from Arizona, as soon as that territory becomes a state...
...DINGLEY, become of great importance...
...On the day that Special Agent Jones was testifying that Federal Judge Hanford of Seattle was "constitutionally opposed" to land fraud cases, Judge Hanford was in conference in San Francisco with Clarence Cunningham, the agent who attended to the details of the Cunnincham group of Alaska coal claims which were to pass into the possession of the Guggenheims...
...Glavis alleged that Ballinger had been party to attempted frauds in connection with the Wilson coal claim cases in the state of Washington...
...Nobody vouched for them...
...President Taft's adoption of them gives them a far better home than they deserve...
...The progress of the inquiry developed a situation which caused a stampede in the Ballinger camp...
...The secretary of agriculture caused the publication of a newspaper article censuring Pinchot for alleged extravagance in sending forest rangers to take six to ten weeks of instruction in the rudimentary work of forestry, and this was followed by complete exposure, showing that the original plan of "ranger schools" had had Mr...
...This magazine then pointed out that these statistics came like Arthur, "out of the unknown...
...Remarkable coincidences have emphasized, most dramatically, the testimony of witnesses in the Washington investigation of the Interior Department...
...Wilson's hearty endorsement, and that the new plan of Pinchot was an economy over the old one...
...Your modern prototype is a more persistent and fearful goddess...
...HOyt further testifying to completely uphold every assertion made by GlaVis...
...At the very moment he was uttering the charge, the federal judge at Seattle was handing down a decision that the Wilson claims were fraudulent...
...To make it easy for him," says the despatch, "a law is to be passed requiring only six months' residence to attain citizenship...
...Would it not have been better to leave them to perish by the exposure that greeted them on their appearance...
...They were a foundling laid on the doorstep of the Committe* on Ways and Means, the paternity of which, if not unknown, was undisclosed...
...They tend to the conviction that the charges lodged by louis R. Glavis are true...
...They were first printed in the Congressional Record by Chairman Payne, in the agony of the closing days of tht tariff debate, when the contest was hot, and men had little time to choose weapons...
...the President selected John J. Vertrees of Nashville, Tenn...
...Wilson appeared on the witness stand and by his confusion and cross-denials of his own statements completed the case for Pinchot, leaving no doubt of the truth of the latter's statements...
...It is surely charitable to turn the White House into a foundling hospital for base-born statistics, but is it wise...
...and then Mr...
...Ballinger announced at the beginning that he would have no attorney at the hearing to represent him...
...Supporters of the accused Secretary denounced Glavis for declaring that Ballinger's name had been omitted from papers in the Wilson coal cases by stipulation...
Vol. 2 • March 1910 • No. 11
