Milford chronicle., 1915-08-13
POLITICAL POINTERS.


The President has received from Mr.
Lansing no new information on the Mex
ican situation, nor any recommendation
as to what should be done by the Unite,
States to restore order in Mexico. Tn,
President has not decided on his mex
step, nor is he still considering which
one of several suggested steps he shal
take. Nothing further will be done with
the Mexican problem before the Presi.
dent returns to Washington, and he has
not told Mr.. Lansing what to do For
these declarations we have the authority.
| in writing, of the President himself, in a
statement made to the correspondents
at Cornish. In other words 'watchful
waiting or at any rate waiting, is the
order of the day. And thousands of
Americans, with property interests
amounting to millions or with educational
and religious enterprises of incalculable
worth, must stand by and see themselves
and their properties outraged, pillaged
and destroyed while their only recourse
is to raise their eyes to heaven and cry.
How long, o Lord, how long ?"
The publication of complete statistics
of the new automobile rural free delivery
routes exposes still more its sectional
character. By the first Of October there
will be 29S of these routes in operation.
Not one of them is located in New En-
gland or New York, where the best roads
are-but the sandy, muddy highways of
Oklahoma Georgia, Texas and Florida
will have 234. If this new service is to
be an endurance test for machines, this
distribution is probably all right but if
it is to be real value as an experiment in
postal facilities, it ought to be tried in
every state.
The Houston Post publishes heated
editorial in rebuke of Texas method of
assessing taxes in such wise that few
counties bear most of the burden. Yet
the Post has nothing of censure for Con |
gressional levies of income and corpora !
ton and "war taxes whereby few
states of the North bear practically all of |
the burden.
Secretary McAdoo says there is moth |
ing to fear in regard to the large enpen- |
ditures for this month, and the rapidly |
declining net balance-that this is al |
ways incident to the period Immediately
following the close of the fiscal year Is
that so? The net excess of all disburse-
nents for the fiscal year 1916, up to July
18th, was SIS, $50, III, compared with
s94S, 512.OO for the same date a year ago.
The truth of the matter is Mr.. McAdoo
lad been hol iigg up payments until after
he close of the fiscal year June 80, in
,rder to make a good showing at that
ime.
Duties collected on imports at the thir-
cen principal customs districts of the
United States, for eight weeks, June Sth
o July 24th, show an average ad valorem
ate of duty on all importations IN these
districts of about l 2 per cent, indicating /
he large proportion of goods which are
ow coming in free, or at low rates of
uty.
The declared value of exports from the
hamburg, Germany Consular district to n
ne United States, January to June 30,
10, was 81 ,OI5, Joy, compared with Sl3,- 1
o5, ll6 for the same period 1914, show |
ig how the war acts as would a prohib- K
ory protective tariff. !.
Although the deficit in the National
easury is increasing at the rate of about +
of a million dollars a dav. I
lie army of Democratic tax-eaters CON
nues to ravage the country on tours of Is
vestigation, inquiry or inspection, most
the route being so arranged that these ls
1rdes of deserving Democrats" NAV
It to the San Francisco Exposition at
overnment expense. That the Fxposi- -,
IN is of educational value is probable 4
at these Democratic officials stand in
ed of education is certain, but that the a.,
'vernment should charge itself with the w
st of their tutelage is repugnant to Fr
und policy. The Baltimore platform M'
d something to say about the "proAi- W.
te waste" the public funds and that. Nc
,, at time when Republican policies w,
re maintaining a full treasury, Next NJ
ar the people will have chance to con- w,
st Democratic procedure while in power Er
tn the Republican manner of doing nc
ngs. p;ii
At La Mott, in Montgomery county. su
nnsylvania, is a postmistress, Mrs.
1mldt by name. who has served accept Tu,
y for thirteen years, but who never IIh
less, has been ordered to submit to a "a. 9a'
called Civil Service examination TO Thi
whether she is competent. Mrs. Sat
imidt very properly characterizes the
er as absurd, while every body knows cb,
t the real reason of the order is to find
lie kind of backdoor route whereby TsI
5. Schmit may be dismissed to make
m for deserving Democrat" This ga
SCENE is one devised bv -
present Democratic Administration NC
the purpose of getting rid of RepubI- F..
in the fourth class Offices while pre-