The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-06-08
AS THINGS ARE SEEN IN
THE NATIONS CAPITOL
Some Of the Questions With Which
National Law Makers Are Wrestling

receivership. Public Ledger. And
the day will come when the United
States will be held to accountability a.
underwater.
In his tribute to Alexander Hamilton
Daniel Webster said: He smote the
rock the national resources and abund.
ant streams OF revenue gushed forth
He touched the dead corpse OF public
credit and it sprang upon its feet"
McAdoo can't seem to find the right
rock, and he is better at manipulating
net balances than at galvanizing public
credit.
The American Base Ball League will
subscribe for 800, 900 worth Of liberty
bonds. The proceeds of the game to
be played in New York on June 10th
will be donated to the first American
engineering corps sent to France. So
the great American game backs up the
great American ideal.
T. R. has published letter urging
citizens to subscribe to the Liberty
Loan. There may yet be an oppor-
tunity for the Colonel to test the regard
in which the nation holds him by be-
ing salesman for Uncle Sans bonds
and succeeding where McAdoo fails.
The Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General has more than one way to
destroy the efficiency of the rural mail
service. In the last Postofice appro-
priation bill certain New England Sem
ators succeeded in inserting provision
that the carrier who serves by boat a
route about 80 miles long on a large
New Hampshire lake should receive a
salary Of $1,000, an amount which he
had been getting for many years until
the present administration almost cut it
in half. The rate Of salary being fixed
by law it could not be reduced by the
Fourth Assistant, but that official now
announces that the route has been
abolished and that bids will be received
for serving the people on the lake shore
in some other way.
Here is another striking illustration
OF the manner in which this ad-
ministration has subordinated facts to
partisan advantage. After the outbreak
OF the war our exports to Germany and
Austria were cut of, but shipments to
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Hol-
land were many times multiplied. Our
war orders brought prosperity, and the
pernhlicans so claimed, with absolute
accuracy and truthfulness. The ad-
ministration's publicity agents, how
ever, denied that restoration OF pros
perity was due to the war, and pointed
out the large exports to neutral
countries, including those above
mentioned. Now that We are ourselves
at war with Germany, administration
officials are willing to admit that pre-
cautions should be taken to prevent
supplies being sent to Germany through
the mediumship of those neutral powers
The administration has been willing to
twist the facts any way to suit its
partisan advantage.
Washington, June Especial core
spondence) Representative Sydney
Anderson OF Minnesota has been active
in eliminating from the revenue bill
some Of the conspicuously unjust take:
which, in his opinion, are almost con.
fscatory. In the paragraph relating tc
soap and other toilet articles he pre-
sented an amendment providing thai
the specific tax OF five per cent should
not be levied until a profit Of eight pc
cent had been earned on the actua
capital invested. Mr.. Anderson be
lieves that such a provision is aloni
the line Of good business on the part o
the Government, and necessary il
order that the sources from which tht
new taxes will come may not be de
stroyed altogether. Soap may be
luxury in the State Of North Carolina"
suggested Mr.. Anderson, referring Il
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