The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-02-25
POSTAL DEFICIT

,ause several million dollars have
,een deducted from the annual deflclt
If the department. Whether economy
S the most praiseworthy thing in the
world however, Is certainly adebat-
able question, and If it were merely
a matter of saving money possibly
great deal could be saved by abolish
ing the post office department en-
tirely. Members of congress have
recently had some very drastic critl-
cisms to offer regarding the post
economies. They
have remarked that the service dur
ing the Hitchcock regime has deter
iorated, and that this was entirely I'M
necessary, because congress appropri-
ated money enough to pay for the SER
vice. and 1t was the postmaster-gen-
erals fault If he did not spend 1.-THE
of this country have always de
manded good service from the post
office department and they have
been willing to pay for It, II con-
gress should order one cent letter
rate tomorrow It's action would be
supported by the public regardless OF
whether the rate proved to be suffic-
lent or whether 1t caused an aid
itional deficit. A postmaster-general
who deliberately cripples the postal
service for the sake of making lit
lie cheap notoriety for economy Is not
only committing political hari kari for
himself, but he is hurting his party
The probability is, some members OF
congress suggest, that the postmaster
general Is very badly overworked
official They intimate that besides
being society leader. he is dispen-
ser of patronage, he has the manage
ment of the administration on his
hands, he Is the political dictator of
the republican party, he is expected
to bring about the party's success at
the next general election, and, incl
IDENTIFY he runs the post office depart
ment Congressman claim that they
find the postmaster-gene entrench-
ed behind half dozen guarded doors
and that If they succeed, after
patiently waiting for hours, in reach
ing his citadel, he seems to have lost
the powar of speech and no express
sion OF opinion can be had from him.
This sounds somewhat harsh and 1t
may not be deserved. but for some
reason Mr.. Hitchcock has run up
against wall Of adverse comment an
1t is very serious question whether
in the words of one irate republican,
he has not found his job several sizes
ought not, in justice to himself ac-
cept one of the very flattering Of
fers with which the commercial world
is said to be bombarding him.
THE TARIFF BOARD
Congress seems to be unable to de-
termine what shall be done regarding
the Presidents policy of having q
tariff board to ascertain what con
sideration shall enter into the making
up of the tariff law. The appropria.
ton under which the present board
is working will be exhausted June 81
next. Unless congress makes an ad
ditional appropriation, the board will
be without funds and powerless tt
derive any benefit from the work Il
has already done, which of course ha
been largely of preliminary and pre-
paratory character. The board ha:
about sixty men at work, in this
: country and abroad, ascertaining thu
cost of production in various lines
and when 1t gets fairly under way |
will have many more employed, mos
, of them experts as to the subjects
on which they are at work. OF cours
congress may act any day on thi
matter, but up to this writing 1t ha
! not acted, and the President seems t
| have little hope that 1t will 1t ma
however, appropriate enough none
so the work already begun may b
carried to conclusion.
LORIMER'S SEAT
If the committee which applied tn
generous and charitable coat of whit
5 wash to Senator Lorimer is not blusl
' ing for itself, then Its friends ar
= blushing for 1t. The denunciations {
the methods by which Senator Lor
mer gained his seat have been almos
as much of reflection on the SCI
ators who have stood up for him a
they were of Lorimer himself An
all the time there was not wor
against Lorimer's private life, an
J several testimonials as to his happ
I family relations. Nevertheless, tn
g public is In no mood to condone sue
sins as those by which Lorime
" profited, and, as Senator Root justl
9 and sapiently remarked, 1t would
u well for the senate to take that fac
n to heart.
CHINESE MAKE ARTIFICIAL
FOODS
l. Sagaciouspolitical economists hay
!. long been predicting that when tn
y Orient awoke to the trend 70 moder
. business and scientific development
:. the remainder of the world woul
! xhave to look back to It's laurels, an
. what is more important, to its con
n mercial interests. The trite stat
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