This is one of the first illustrations of how the people are gradually losing their selfgovernment. so dearly contended for by the forefathers. by transferring their rights and liberties to commissions and bureaus. to whom. in their wisdom. the Constitution and laws of the United States are but scraps of paper when they are sought to be invoked against their rules. regulations. and interpretations. Secretary Houston says that the footandmouth disease was introduced from a foreign country. Whether it was brought to this country in a hypodermic syringe for the purpose of interfering with the meat supply. or by Belgian refugees working in the peppermint marshes of Michigan. or carried in the pack of a Russian emigrant from Vilna. or imported from Japan in japonica. or in buffalo hides from Hankow. China. or cowhides from South America into a tannery and tracked from thence to a pigpen by suspected employees of a nearby tannery in a nocturnal quest for chicken. or whether it may have arrived in a shipment of Argentine corn. or whether the act of a farmer in ordering a pair of Germanmade gloves of tIe mailorder house of Montgomery. Ward & Co.. and carelessly throwing the wrapper of the same into the hog loteither of which causes might be sufficient to cause some biased person to intimate that its introduction was the direct result of the Underwood tariff lawnevertheless it is a fact that the ".causative agent" of the disease and the disease itself appeared the first week of August. 1914. on the farm of Willard E.
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