| Show THE SECRETARY OF MINES MINESO LR ALWAYS bUt bu O sometimes narrow contemporary Louisville Indulges lii Iu some som more or less sar CM m regarding the proposition to Ht Establish abUsh a a department of mines mIne and t to I IF F He the head hend ot of such a the rauk or of a bin t officer After Ing JUr ita on of the t developments men 8 of th the I term poliCy Will be the creation of a new cabinet portfolio tob to caned tip tb of 01 nine and sa S SIt lit It Js is to be hoped if if this has bende en de on that th It will not e sev sever er J other u equally a orthy of lon In the cabinet Therb Ther Is fox for t ance or there thoro is not though therE be the or of hens anc ll i ggs Tb henesS Industry is ono one of oC the th gj t in the country and it Is as d ot of In the cabinet o as the th mining Industry It if the mines are ar tn g gt t Into the cabinet Jt behooves the th or of the benO S s to see that they gr with the mines It if It is Ii urged t that at the mining people were ere responsible fr thousands of at the Roosevelt majority r at the polls It may be responded that thai the b people were sibIl for thousands the wre Alre responsible for tens ot of thou thousands ands If it is argUed that the are ar by the department at ate 01 e It may rody bo be replied that they 01 a no more represented b by that depart than the mines ar are represented by b th department ot of commerce commeree and labor We eo cheerfully concede that the hen egg eIg industry Is important The census rEturns for 1900 sho t t in the census year the Industrious American hen l laid ld more than and bIllions ot of eggs Our was doubtless thinking of the tremendOUS dIms dOUS num r ot of bowls or of i eb eggs Would make when It broke l Into appreciation ot of the cheery heery and hard working hen Of course 1 It the lue of the egg output td n the basis ot of the excellence ot i eggnogs wed sved say that the tho hen ought to have hae a department ot of her own ownA ownA A ian saYS AYs th gh that the eggs of t the e eben lien ben were W WIn n nwe we say only we do not menn that the sum is or that the hen Is Unworthy or of o ur r highest esteem When say MY that the mines of the country consIderable more nOre than a billion dollars to the mineral wealth ot of the coUntry In tile the census year you std the meaning of that only Be id s the mine product is permanent hen a fleeting evanescent thinS The egg eg In time becomes stale flat fiat and Our mineral wea eath ah remains us Clear Clearly ly Y the mines hae have the the better ot of the argument |
