The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-02-18
THE MoUNTAINEER, FEB Is. 1850.

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wealth, BY representing faithfully the
abuses Of Department pets; but the aggra-
walton has been deep and broad enough 70
arouse every man who has soul III his
body, to protest hi every constitutional
manner against the fragrant violation of
those common rights and benefits which.
belong to every being who submits to con-
stitationai law and authority.
On the one subject our mails, without
naming maititudes Of other grievances
enough Tan BE said and done to makesome
linen honest no, that Is not ii 10 dare.
their dishonesty We have no faith in
1.-The Ethiopian changing bis skin or the
leopard bis spots, nor yet IN some men
changing their habits; We do believe, how
lever, that We haveit inourpoMer 10 hedge
them IN. and limit III some degree their
raFages
We may Be too confding, still We think
il due ~ the chief Of 4 department sup
pose he would like to know Tie practical
workings Of his plans General Holt has
the responsibility laid upon him Of linking
together thirty millions 81 beings spread
over between three and four million square.
miles Of territory; u expect, therefore, Of
him more than q personal superintendent
over his own bureau and q general know
ledge Of the wires connected Herewith,
would be to expect TOO much. Mail routes
are laid "a on. niaps, bids forseryice are in-
yited, contracts are concluded and fled off.
and that Is the last Of the route, the SER
vice and the contract till the day Of pre-.
lsentation at the Treasury.
The Postmaster General naturally.
enough supposes that everything and
everybody i III the right place, and the
result Of every working just what he con-.
ceisedin his bureau. Why should he.
think otherwiseY We have not the most
distant idea that he knows anything about.
our mail lying scattered here and there
between ST. Joseph and this city. III IS
our business to make him acquainted with
the facts,
General Holt speaks Of the cost Of
western mail service witha freedom TINT
inspires US with the conviction that he il
entirely ignorant oft being nuisance as
il is. He talks Of the cost Of the service
west Of the Rocky Mountains, which lie
.assuredly would only do under the i'm i'm
preston Of that service being rendered
For his information. last mail may serve
as q sample Of the mail service III general
out here. The mail due last Tuesday
week came in on the Sunday evening
previous. two days within schedule time
that y, the letter sacks were brought ~ |
but not single paper for any person.
We would have noticed this in our article
in last issue, but we had the assurance thai
the whole Of oar back mail matter at
Rocky Ridge and other stations would Be
brought Into the city within six days, and
on that assurance we were silent Hasit
Gomez MOL The regular paper mail Of /
last week itself was not even brought IN
without speaking Of the accumulated back
mail Certainly the heavy roads could ia
no excuse for its detention. The roads
we're good enough to permit the letter
mail 70 be brought in before it was due: /
and one Of our citizens, whom business |
had taken to Rocky Ridge, came in 10 the
city without change Of animals in three
days less time than that allowed to The
mail with their change of animals every
forty miles. There is no explanation Of
the present culpabIe course of our mail
contractors, than that which we have
stated in the outstart, that they have I
counted npon onr silence, our patience aud
our long suffering, Is this to continue?
We answer, No! And to attain this end I
we say, men of business, and men whol
take any interest in the outside world, LET
your voices be heard aud your influence
felt everywhere, that this present mail
nuisance may be ahated. -. -: =: II
PEACE COMMISSIONERS WANT Il