The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-26
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OF EFFICIENCY

OF EFFICIENCY a
The collector Of internal revenue
n Philadelphia recently received 9
heck for one cent to cover a bal.
Ance due the government for which q
dill had been rendered. The Demo
ratio press agents made the most Of
ais incident as typefying the watch
log p%roclivities Of the Wilsen-Cox
~ppointees. But just about the same
me the internal revenue oficials in
,hicago discovered $2,225, 900 In their
saults for which they could not 'ac.
count until a local corporation, which
had been charged with non-payment
of taxes, produced a receipt for a
large part of this amount. There
had been no entry made in the books
by the watch-dogs In charge Of the
Chicago office. On this subject the
Democratic press agents maintained
a discreet silence.
The two occurrences have given
.he Republicans a good deal to laugh
bout, since they are characteristic
Of the Wilson party's propensity for
initiating little things and bungling
big ones. Mr.. Cox, for another ex-
ample, multiplied the Republican
ampaign fund by ten and charged
nat $4,000. 900 was to be used to de-
oauch the American electorate. or
bout thirty cents a head for the
population. In Ogden, Utah, young
rankin Roosevelt added a few ciph-
RS to the Mckinley campaign fund
# 1896, and some rude person in the
tudience said that McKinley's adj
ninistration al worth every cent of
he exaggerated figures.
At Waterloo, Iowa, Secretary Newt
Baker, who Sights his duties to
lump for Cox. after q fearful pane
.yric of Woodrow Wilson, declared
hat the League Of Nations had al
'eady prevented one war by handling
he dispute between Finland and
sweden respecting the ownership of
he Aland Islands. Mr.. Baker did
not call attention to the announce
rent from Europe that Sweden has
.eclared unless Germany is permitted
oon to enter the league, Sweden will
withdraw, while France is equally
ssertive that If Germany is admitted
france will withdraw. All Pansy
ould see was that a possible war had
been averted by the league. II this
true 1t would give the league
, percentage of about four and thirty
ive-hundredths, since there are about
.wenty-three vars now raging In
europe. But on the same day that
Bakers speech was released, Walter
.uranty. New York Times CORES
in France, reported that the
eague had decided against Finland,
Ind said: "The verdict being adverse,
t is highly possible that Finland will
gnore 1t. Indeed, / was repeatedly
old by persons in authority at Hell
last winter that the country
.Finland) would not hesitate to fight
'ather than give up the islands,"
yewt can handle a microscope, but a
elescope is too much for him.
The Democratic press agents made
great splurge some weeks ago be-
sause the bureau that did Mr.. VIII |
on's Greeting cost the United States
nut $4,000. 900. But nothing is said
4 the fact that the Democratic ad-
criminally wasted a sum
stimated in excess of $780, 00 600, 900 |
+ taxpayers money during twenty
nonths of the war. And what the |
bureau cost the United States !
n lowered prestige cannot be re-
uced to dollars.
Examples could be multiplied in
efinitely of the administrations keen
We for a gnat and blindness for a
amei. and perhaps the most excru-
iating specimen was when 1t picked
put over the cause of a super
tate. an Insignificant peanut politi-
ian, yOked him with a dude who has
cen repudiated by Theodore Roose-
elt's son as a maverick" and en-
ourages the two of them to drivel
bout campaign funds and "Sennit
lie garkies."