Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-05-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, May 4, 1908.

Other happeningsin in Washington
have caused more stir during the
past week than the published utter
ance of Mr.. 0. 2. Austin, Chief of
the Treasury Bureau OF Statistics.
He says that he has carefully
analyzed the prosperity conditions
and indications and finds that every
evide nee points toward not only a
continuance of present prosperous
times but substantial increase in
the prosperity if conditions are left
undisturbed. With the knowledge
that the Bureau of Statistics is con-
cerned only in giving out facts and
figures which bear on the producers,
commerce and finances Of the coun-
try, your correspondent called on
Mr.. Austin and found that he had
not been in any way misquoted. 1t
must be remembered that he is an
expert who has made q study of
conditions with their bearing on
the welfare of the country, and that
his conclusions are based on the
most careful of calculations. "If
I were the only one who had
studied the question, to arrive at
these conclusions, J." he said, Il
might feel that there was chance
for slight doubt as to the exceed
ingly rosy prospects. But when |
find that Secretary Wilson, through
carefully studies Of crops and
markets, makes the same deduct
ions, | am doubly sure that we are
not tottering on the crest of a wave
Of prosperity before plunge into
the gulf of calamity, as some croak-
ers are trying to make the country
believe. On the contrary everything
points to our being simply on the
rise of long, smooth ground swell
which will carry us to an era
of good times of which the present
is only the dawn" He admitted
that disturbing conditions might
arise, but said that his calculations
to be complete had to take cogniz-
ance of the possibilities and even
with everything considered he felt
that his predictions Ola long perio3
of good times was a safe one. i
may be added that the American
| people have reputation for know
ing and holding to good thing
when they have it.
There is no quiet coarse OF
leniency and suppression being car
ried on the Postofice Department
investigation, but the whole situa-
tion is being gone over throughly,
disclosing irregularities which have
existed for a long time Mr..
Roosevelt is too thorough Il re-
former to permit the pursuit OF
rogues with felt slippers, aud their
handling with silk gloves, even II
Postmaster General Payne were
himself inclined to keep things
under cover, which he is not.
Dismissals have followed and find
ing of clerks on ''laborers' rolls in
defnance of the Civil Service rules,
and favored "laborers' have been
given alternative Of hustling mail
sacks and scrubbing windows, or
leaving the service. The mis-
demeanors involving higher officials
have been the subject of a long con.
ference between the postmaster
General and Secretary Root, who
left Immediately after the confer.
ence for st. Louis where he pre-
sented the facts to the President in
order that the latter might be ac.
quainted with the steps taken, and
advise the best course to thoroughly
purge the service OF existing evils
1t can be stated definitely that th'
return of the President will brine
forth sven greater activity thai
has been already shown.
Fewer gallons; wears longer; Devoe
Cook WANTED A good wanted
Must not be afraid Of work. Wages So