Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-27
Postoffice Department Has No
Thought Of Cutting Them,
Despite the Deficit.
WORTH THE COST INVOLVED
BaIiinser.Pinchot Row Stirs UP Much
Bitterness In Washin gton-Public
Hearings Are Likely to Be
Lively.

Observation-Disclosures is making
every effort that 1t can to find a way
to cut down the expenses of govern
ment. In former years there has been
the appearance of a striving after
saving rather than a real saving 1t.
self, but this year results are being
accomplished. 1t can be said, how
ever, that while there will be pairing
OF expenses in practically all the ap-
preparation bills there will be no at
tempt to curtail expenditures which
will cripple the rural mail deliveries
Of the country.
Postmaster General Hitchcock was
the last of the cabinet chiefs to hand
In his annual report. He had a hard
problem to solve. The demands made
by the people on the p~ostofice de
partment are greater year by year.
and there is always resentment Of any
recommendation that an increased
price should be added to any service
rendered by the department to the
people. Perhaps the country will have
one-cent frst-class postage some time
In the near future. for while the cost
OF maintaining the department Is in
creasing II is hoped that means will
be found to make the revenues great.
er and yet to allow a decrease In the
cost OF letter postage.
The postmaster general 10 a firm
believer In the rural route system.
The delivery of letters through the
country districts costs the govern
ment several millions Of dollars a year
more than the returns, but the i'm
mense convenience to the people who
live outside of the great centers more
than overbalances. in the eyes of the
department chiefs. the extra money
needed to continue the service.
Ambitious Plans on Foot.
Demands will be made during the
next year to find some place in which
the j~ostoflce department expenses
may be cut materially, and some
means by which the income may be
increased without affecting the purses
OF the great body of the people. II
the present postmaster general can
put his department on a paying basis
he will count It a victory sufficient to
make his administration stand in a
bright light. There seems to be little
chance. however. that affairs can be
80 arranged that the pages of the
ledger Of the postomce department
will balance themselves at the end Of
the next year.
One thing can be taken for granted,
the rural route service of the country
will be strengthened year by year,
even though II be necessary to weak.
EN- some of the other branches of the
service.
Satisfied with Antitrust Law.
President Taft seems to have found
TO his W satisfaction, as shown by
his recent message. that the Sherman
antitrust law Is equal to every de.
mand that the country makes OF 1t
This is the presidents legal opinion.
and until some greater lawyer or law
yers or group Of judges find to the
contrary II probably will have to
stand. The fact that the interests
that have attacked the Sherman law
have been so Numerically opposed tc
one another cen to have convinced
the president that the law must be q
pretty good one. At any rate he has
advised that 1t remain unchanged or
the statute books.
There are several celebrated case.
upon which the supreme court of thu
United States has yet to pass judg
ment. cases which came into tn,
courts as IA result Of the entering O
government prosecution under tn,
Sherman law. The case of the Stand
ard Oil Company. which was decided
adversely to the great corporation
: will come before the high court with
In a short time. The lower cour,
l which sat in the city. of st. Louis, de
= clared the Standard Oil Company (,
: BE- a corporation In restraint OF trade
This was q Sherman law case and
r is expected that within a few week
the supreme court will decide II.
Bitterness In Pinehot Row..
When the members OF the committe
. on investigation into the BallingeI
. Pinchot controversy get into the rel
n heart OF their work the case unque,
, tionably will prove to be one of tn
most interesting which has ever bee
u heard In the capital. 1t would be har
for anyone at a distance to realiz
the intensity Of feeling that there
!. IN this city over the matter. which CO
o gress has finally taken into its ow
d hands at the request OF Secretary
q the Interior Pallinger,