Investigate The Tall Timber

INVESTIGATE THE TALL TIMBER. 

Gradually the postoffice department investigations are swinging around toward bigger game. If an investigation of the railway and steamship postal contracts be ordered, bigger game will in all probability be aroused from its hiding place. It has been a matter of general belief for years that these contracts are honey combed with the biggest kind of frauds. The government is generally supposed to be defrauded of millions of dollars a year in the making of these contracts. Not only are the mails said to be enormously stuffed in order to get these contracts way up but the rentals paid for mail cars is entirely disproportionate to the cost of these cars. All this is as familiar to the committees of congress controlling these matters, as they are to the officials of the department who have immediate charge of the business, but the men who profit by this robbery of the public are too high up in party standing and too influential to be brought to justice. President Roosevelt has said that all leads would be followed to their end no matter where they conduct to or who is treed at the end of the trail. It is to be hoped he will be as good as his statement in all this and that no one will be allowed to escape because of his high position or standing in the party counsels. The public wants the facts about these matters and desires that the guilty be brought to book no matter who they are. By all means let the bureau presided over by the second assistant postmaster general be investigated.