Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-03-27
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, D. c.
BY U. s. Press Association.
Bond Bldg Washington. ID. c.
FAILURE OF TIE posAL BILL

very unusual Lhlhg Oh COHtinuliiB Vic
appropriation for the Post Office De-
partment." However, this is not a
very satisfactory method since it will
deny the postoffice about twelve mil
lion dollars increase for which it
asked.
There have been times in the not
distant past. when the failure of the
pOstOffice bill would have caused great
inconvenience to the people of the
country. The postOffice is the peoples
own department. In 1896, when Me-
Kinley was elected President, the APP
preparation for the postal service was
less than 800. 0O0, 600; last year 1t was
a3l9 900 600. In less than twenty
years the business has more than trip
led. In any year preceding that of 1914,
the failure of Congress to make pro-
vision for this great increase in the
postal business would have been CON
sidered little short of calamity for
which Congress would have had to an
swer to the people who depend so
largely upon this service in the con-
duct of their business and for which
they expect to pay In postage. But
with the depression In business, from
whatever cause. the European war or
the new tariff, or the state of the
Treasury, or the general adminstra-
tiOn of the government, the loss of s12-
900, 700 for increased facilities of the
postal service may not be 80 much
felt or attract as much attention as it
would two years ago or more. The
failure of the pOstOffice bill does, how
ever indicate that the Sixty-third CON
grese, with all its many days of SEES
sioi and with all its great Legislative
record, did not consider that the
business of the people called for as
much attention as did the schemes to
reform and heckle business. The
people may not share in the eulogies
pronounced In the House.
IL used to be said that man could
be awfully busy without accomplish
ing anything of real and lasting good.
The Sixty-third Congress was busy.
Its work must be passed upon by the
people next year.
THE UNIQUE MT. MARSHALL.
just why Vice-president Marhall
gets b." so successfully may be be-
cause he 10 wonderful optimist. How
ever, II the former Vice president,
James K. Sherman, was entitled to
the cOgnOmen of "Sunny jim" then
the inheritance must have fallen to
the present Vice president. In view
OF his pleasant manner in expressing
himself upon many topics, there was
a lack of enterprise in view of the fact
that he 10 not called Sunny jim. The
Vice president says that he never
bothers with statistics. that he would
not read them or believe them, and he
gives as one of his reasons that he
once knew man 'who took the same
figure and prepared opposing speeches
upon the tariff issue for Uncle Joe
Cannon and William b. Wilson and
both Of them were pretty fine, among
the other unconventional things which
the Vice president has pulled" are
some of these:
No one Is so competent to train
children IS the person who has none
And so no one is so competent to un-
derstSnd fully the labor situation Ms
the man who never labored.
1T doesn't make q Democrat to
wear dirty shirt. And it doesn't
preclude his becoming q Democrat be-
cause he was born under the purple.
Thomas Jefferson was the greatest
Democrat before / was born. Both of
us were born under the purple, SO to
speak.
MANY of the most dangerous men
In society are those who have worked
their way up from the lowhest. The
man born the purple is less dangerous
TO society than the man Who climbs up
from the bottom.
III laziness had not overtaken me
l would have been shoemaker. "a
so-ealled skilled lsbOrer separated
from his cog OF the industrial machine
is as helpless as babe out of its moth
er's arms.
1.-The work of the world could be
done on 3 four hour-a-day schedule
if everyone found out what he was
fitted to do and what he should do and
did il.
II never fQand out what | was fitted
for until was elected Vice president.
l have found myself. All do is hold
office, draw my salary, do nothing
and tell everybody else what to do.
Politics - the science of fOoling the
other fellows.
THE thing that sils mankind is
compulsiou. Men should rot BE drtyen
like galley slaves, se0urged at night
10 their dungeons. but should be per
suaded to serve gladly.
Every maR should do something
net somebody"