Show UNCLE SAMS MANY SERVANTS Washington Letter Nothing brings out more clearly the growth of governmental functions than thana a comparison of the latest issue of the tle Official Register of at the officials and employees in the civil military and 1 naval service with any earlier volume of the same kind The growth in pop population population of lake cities has been bein remark remarkable remarkable remarkable able but it is not a t circumstance be beside beside beside side the growth of the federal service These volumes are in reality lists of or names namen Volume 1 contains the names of vf all of Uncle Sams sam servants except those in the postal establishment which is reserved for tor volume 2 that establishment establishment establishment employing about as many per persons persons persons sons as all the other branches of the I I government combined The Official o Register it should be noted contains I uk names of commissioned officers of the army and navy but not the private soldiers To observe the growth of these vol volumes volumes umes nines one need not go back to Andrew Jacksons time or the second Adams administration when the Official Reg Register Register ister was about as large as a New Eng England England England land primer nor is it necessary to go goback goback goback back to the civil war period or to t 1870 or 1880 or 1890 to see great changes The contrast between the volumes issued I July 1 I 1893 and those issued July 1 I 1899 is sufficiently striking The vol yol volume volume ume published in 1893 containing every everything everYthing everything thing but the postoffice contained about names The corresponding volume of 1899 six years later contains nearly names a gain of about 40 per cent in six years Students of statistics might with propriety compute how many man years it would be at this rate before everybody would be working for the United States government Nor was the volume for 1893 the result of ot condi conditions conditions conditions which would have been regarded as frugal I s g places had been provided by the con congress congress congress gress of the Harrison administration which then evoked much criticism The volume just issued is doubtless swelled somewhat by war and colonial conditions but on the other hand it contained coI no census establishment for this hart han not been organized July 1 1899 whereas in 1893 there were many man r pages of at employees in this branch of the service I |