The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-06
AIN RUSH FOR OFFICE.
:, ..,oo Like 1t Ever Before
Known.
:, LACKING IN VAIN FOR WORK.
cv.r Reed Forbids the Starting
Hs e. :, Great Public Works That Would
w ..asd Employment = Cleveland
"A the Civil Service

n, Of Great f""''
Give Needed Employment : 0'
IA the Civil Service
r,suNGroN, Feb. 6.-lSpeciai SEN
WASH. ,embers of congress who belong
itCrs a ponnblcan party say they have new
tot ne nep sucb rush for appointments In
gK Know service as that which they
the go I've exneriencing. Their mails are
are NV S0vn with applications, and some OF
loaueu Of n very pitiful character. Men
them sl ~ found it difficult to provide
VINO N Co.. their families, men who have
Dreau eau 'J IN vain for work, hope their SEN
loOAo representatives may be able to find
a,motbing for them under oncie sam
s ouo senator said to me today: i dislike
o aonen nv mail / do not claim to be a
~ hearted man, nor to have more IMAM
SOW .hare Of human sympathy, but 1t is
my that tbat 7 am made very sad by this flood
' rD,Uoals for help which pours in upon me-
.' app rrrite 70 me, saying they will be glad
NC" ANYTHING they can get. They offer
w'a a,,,o down TO Washington and act as
wVO cers 20 clean out spittoons and do
in's' Sort If mental work, just so it Is work
au us broad and butter for themselves and
NV NV. families The most l can do for these
wv. tolloxvs is to write them all kindly re-
Ip,,os holding out no hope to them, but
PIN ",nc a cheerful word or two to nerve
.hsm on for their struggle against adver-
dty."
qbeforegoing is similar to the testimony
cren by most Republican senator's and
sorcressmen. They attribute the phenom-
sraI rush for public place to the hard
,;mes--to the fact that men who ordinarily
have all the work they can do are now UNI
aSe 70 find anything in the bread winning
line II is q serious question with some
a. our statesmen If this government ought
rot 10 adopt the policy pursued now by the
outborities of India, and followed often by
other governments, of starting up great
mbIc works which will give employment
n thousands of men. Instead of doing
something in this line, the policy of the
movers which control legislation here is
in exactly the opposite direction. Speaker
Reed, anxious to make for the house rep
utation for economical appropriations, de-
clines to permit any measure involving an
expenditure of public funds to come up for
consideration, relentlessly sitting down
upon everything except the regular appro-
priation bills, which are needed to keep the
government going.
II large appropriations could be made for
public buildings, if the river and harbor
works of the country were given a fair
amount of money with which to carry on
the improvements, if the Nicaragua canal
could be authorized, there would be much
more employment for the mechanics and
laborers. But Mr.. Reed, acting from q
sense Of duty, in which he is as sincere as
man can be, refuses to permit any such ap-
propriations to go through the house.
Thereare public men who think this policy
amistake. They believe the government
should be more liberal with its expendi-
lures, especially in those which make work
for the common people in times of depres-
sion and commercial inactivities than in
good times. Labor is then cheaper. The
government can get more for its money.
In addition to this, it can help the people
tide over q period of hard times. 1t is safe
to say that If policy of making liberal
appropriations for public building and
public works had been pursued by the past
congress and by this one, 100, 600 or $50, 600
men might have been employed on govern
ment operations, thus reducing by so much
the congestion of unemployed labor COM
peting against other unemployed labor.
But such hue and cry has been raised in
this country against large appropriations
that politicians and leaders of parties dare
not take the responsibility of opening up
the doors of the treasury even for the most
wholesome and proper purposes
Cleveland's italian Hand.
SO great is the pressure of Office seeking
upon Republican members of congress that
adesperate effort will be made TO induce
PRESIDENT Mckinley to suspend parts of the
CIVIL service order recently issued by Presi-
dent Cleveland. The Republicans claim that
PRESIDENT Cleveland waited till the Demo-
Gratis had filled the public offices with men
Vi their own party faith before issuing his
orders, and that many of the men who are
py these orders placed under civil service
protection never passed an examination,
ana are not entitled to be held in their
places under the guise of civil service re-
iorm' Great as the pressure is 1t is not
probable President Mckinley will do any
.nlng OF the sort. Here again public opin-
.on interIects its pressure. Without ques-
'ion the educated public opinion of tho
country Is In favor of through reform Of
% ,ne public service. 1t would have the pub
Az service divorced from politics.
Peace Reigns.
Ms already apparent that the new ad-
%lnstration Is going to make an effort to
%Mp w itself with the country. Major
s m,vniniey has been exceedingly careful in
sselecting his cabinet, and he has from the
.as' insisted that harmony in the party
asa harmony between the various branches
or ne government should be aimed at in
ST,ery step authorized by him. Major Nc.
no aniey mas genius for bringing men to-
sesner' Evidence of this is found in the
s,S mat Senator Sherman and General
h h'ser are to sit in the same cabinet. They
G case Deen enemies ever since 1880, when
S s Alger was a candidate for presi .
sons against Mr.. Sherman and pursued
SIN. methods to which the Ohio senator
Tao objected. But peace reigns at last.
w,,, mckinley administration probably
I'm sm' oe noted as the peaceful administra-
no. Oa, as the business administration. do
M",N violate any confidence when say that
raa asor Mckinley's ideal president in many
tS spe s is Mr.. Hayes. Nor do overstate
t f"Y TACT when say that among thought
HaIp PUBLIC men the administration of Mr..
hs., . % Is now regarded as one of the very
's the country ever had Major Maxim