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Show BBBB: HAS HIS ENEMIES bVb BBBB That tho Hon. Secretary of Agrl- BBf . culturo has his qnemles Is evident BBB from the recent trend of eveut3. That BBB ho also has his friends Is evident BBB from thoso who aro always ready to BBB take his part, ward off attacks, and BBB speak a good word for tho man who BBB. 'has held this Important post so loug. BBff' Representative Sloan of Nebraska ro BBJi cently spoke In defenso of tho von- erablo Secretary as follows: "Who Htcals may purso stealq tVasli" wrts made to do a servlco for tho gentleman from Indiana. Yet ho-foro ho-foro and after tho quotation In IiIb speech ho unwarrantcdly attacked tho venerable Secretary of Agriculture. Agricult-ure. The devil denouncing sin nov-or nov-or spoko with more Inconsistency than did tho gentleman making tho slanderous quotation from Avon's Deathless Hard. 1 was In tho President's Presi-dent's room tho other day, whore a genius had wrought his ideals with aid of color crystal and gold. Tho effect seemed to bo realization of tho artist's dream; yet tho custodian told mo that n vandal had defaced one of Its fairest parts. I saw, too, tho matchless canvaBs-upon which a paint" er had depleted, militant nnd glorious an American fleet upon ono of her Inland seas. A vandal there had drawn his ruthless ruth-less knife and ront that picture, which five gencrotfons of his. kind :ould not restore. Thon 1 camo to tills House to bco and hear this assault as-sault upon tho oldest man lu the- Cabinet tho oldest cabin et officer in point off service llv- ' .ng, the ohUst Cabinet officer In point if service livfng or dead 10 yonrs or continuous servlco tho most generally gener-ally loved and respoctcd Cabinet f-riccr f-riccr riom Washington to Tatt; and this respect and lovo Includes Republican Repub-lican and Democrat, tho East, the West, the North, tlio South. Yet he gentleman from Indiana proccodi to attack his fair uumo and fame and tills largely for following directions direc-tions laid down ln'tho Sixty-first Con ' gress by tho Commlttco on Expcndl- urcs. That was a strong committee it Included, or Memboratstlll In this ilotiHc, the distinguished gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Flood, tho eminent Jurist from Missouri, Mr. Ilooher, That report was backed by Hon. Ed-jvin Ed-jvin W. Hlgglns, now tho ranking member of the minority. It was, also by the distinguished cluilrnipn, Mr. Moss, so it might bo called Mosi-backed. Mosi-backed. I do not think any of these f gentlemen should rcpudiato it or oven I find fault with the Secretary of the I Bureau of Chemistry in accepting it as based upon knowledge nnd good faith. Unt the secretary, hailing as ho does from Scotland, may readily see, whatever what-ever his courso might lmvo beau In tho purefood law, it would havo met tho adverso criticism or tho gentle-ninn gentle-ninn from Indiana. There wouhl Vrobubly bo ail application of tho familiar doctrine, "It you can, you can't; ir you will, you won't; you will bo damned ir you do; you'll be damned damn-ed ir you don't." The Secrotory will be glad that the power or ourse or benediction was nut delegated to tho chairman of expenditures. 1 dlsllko to seo tho Secretary Join certain others oth-ers In their assault upon tho venerable vener-able secretary. Not that thoy can really Injure him, but they can not fnll to nunoy. Whon I' was n boy I used to hear carrion crows caw, ctxw, I cawing from n safo dlstanco nt an I aged and burdened eagle as ho pots- I cd nnd soured to his rocky aerie. I Thero ho was safo. Men would not I harm him, nnd crows could not an- I noy. In his olevntod placo In Amorl- I can regard the Secretary is safo. and socuro. And 1 want to say gentlo-l mon, when the gront Secretary has gonu and tho honors Justly duo him rrom a grateful peoplo aro In part paid, U tho neglected graves or his detractors now In ortlco bo covorcd with denso coating of grass It will bo becnuso Secretary Wilson has done much to mnko two blades grow whero only one grow before." Arter all wo all havo our friends as well as our onomlcs, nnd nt heart when tho final count Is mado many I of the so-called enemies movo to the sldo of tho friends, and thus tho clouds aro rolled away. "Stones aro only thrown nt fiult bearing trees" and ho who crosses over the soa of life without n rlpplo on its surface Is usually tho fellow that never left his own door yard, and does not know that tho oarth is round. The great characters In the world's history his-tory are "loved for tho enomles Micy havo made" and at the final the co-called co-called enemies nro usually classed among the friends. n ' |
