The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-23
automatic Government.
TIT. ETsT THE WORLD EVER sAw--HOw
SIZE RUNS HERSELF.

nires and kingdoms, and pliucipalitics aud
iowcls of the other hemisphere, the petty
republics Of Central and South America,
and even the mixed government of King
l3V REQUIRE constant care and attentions
Tut here is a government the best" we
some time to have heard it re-
mari ad-..the world ever saw with 4
civil service described by the foremost
statesman Of the party in power as the
best on the planet 4 country llllmtable III
resources. where seats III the Senate are .
worth from City to sixty thousand dollars !
and railroad companies can afford to pay |
%rO 600 a piece for Senators a country .
with an elastic currency and a plastic fl
nance minister, Il national debt of magmili- +
cent prCDorti0nS, syndicate, peace pol :
icy and 4 WUdnc war-and it runs itself. +.
Early in March. one House of Congress /
yayyned and said '-Our days are as the
,,rass. Let us grab and go away - and
fIey- Grabbed 4 million and a half and re-
turned to their constituents, each man with
= smile OF his cOunteuanca and 80, 600 plum
der in his hand. y few days later the Sem
ate. which had remained over for introspec-
tion. tIageliatiuu, and possibly puTgation,
after it had maundered and mumbICd
awhile. began to braid straws in its Lair
and take on ans of madness and to say,
..This is lonesome and melancholy, and
the country wants rest - and then having
done nothing. it folded its1rnts like the
Arabs. and silently stole" the rest of the
quotation is impairment.
1t was really gratifying to the American
reople to know that the great republic
could get along now for few months with
cut additional Legislation, and that the leg
i,Iltiyc departments could take a vacation
and rest from its labors. 1t was also Incl
dcntally a relief to the great body of the
American people to know that the treasury
was safe for few months from all but the
ordinary predatory iEcu!siOns of the depart
mcDts. There was great comfort III the
thought that all the machinery of this
wonderful government Of the people for
the people was in gouG working order aud
needing nothing for several months but
executive supervision. There were some
. little matters to bc sure, left unattended
to as for instance, affairs IN Louisiana,
where there is \ difference of opinion be-
tween the people of the State and the fami-
ly Of the President Is 10 who owns the
. State. The omission on the part OF Con
gress 70 settle the question as it might have
done las left the State i'll u condition Of
+ laWlessness and disorder, out of which
there has already been some blOudshed, and
+ more may be expected. But then these are
Z lj.tlc things compared with the importance
OF having ''loyar' men in office. Beside
this, there we're only 4 few Investigations
in the works. aud some odds aad ends Of
7 things left hanging by the gills.
/ We all feispToud aad happy to think that
/ the executive departments could run the
/ government. And when very shortly the
/ President himself dropped everything and
came to \ cw OTk to take dinner with Mr.
: Thomas Murphy and examine some horses,
/ and recueatc n few days with 5lr. Murphy
and others our hearts loaped with Joy 1T
, the assurance that everything was running
so smoothly that the President could safely
/ leave it for Il few days, to find relief and
/ relaxation from the fatigUcS and cares OF
/ his great Office i'll the intellectual society
, of Hlr. Murphy. And when he went back
by way OF Lebanon, Penn, and got to
, Washing ton IN time to pack a trunk or two
. ana start for ST. Louis. and then went to
st. Louis and stated that although lac had
strong attachments for that city, he did not
. suppose lie should again reside there per
. manantIy. and when we read that from St.
. Louis hc was goiTg 10 Colorado, and that
if lie should get back in time be would
I make Gov. Jewell, Of Connecticut, Il visit,
and then begin the Long Branch season,
} we settle down into calm contcn. ment at
the remarkable smoothaeSS with which the
. government goes on under the managen ent
Of the heads of departments.
There waited Us higher satisfaction, q
/ comp,etcr Joy. Il had not yet appeared
| but that the several departments needed
heads But the secretary Of war felt so
easy about his own department that he
went home to Iowa at once and without
hesitation, leaving the genial and gifted
I ROjesCn to take care of the little business
Of tie EIodoc war; and Postmaster Gen
eral CIesweu was SO confident that the
changes in the postal laws would take care
Of themselves that lie started Immediately
for the Mammoth Cave, in kentucky, leay
ing his department TO run itself. And thel
We remembered that nearly all the depart
neuJs took care of themselves last fal
while the cabinet took the stump, and St
We came into great and radiant content,
the purest JOY the patriot can know, the
satisfaction Of having a government that
can run itself. And what a blessed thing
it was, what a prudent and provident thing
in the last Congress TO double the salarie:
of the gentlemen who have SO much travel
ing to do ana 50 many hotel bills to pay
!. !. TrtjURc.
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Boston, nearly quarter of n century age
February. IS49), where their Agency /:
still located, carrying on large and success
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in New York City, May 1862, which ha:
I grown to be larger than the parent house
increasing steadily, year by year, unit
now it has the agency of nearly every news
paper in the United States and Britisl
Provinces, and does a yearly business o
hundreds Of thousands of dollars. s. 81
| Pettengill & Co. have recently opened an
other branch office at 701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, where they are doing a sue
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