The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-10-11

and damnable injustice that should b
repulsed at all hazards. 49,.
THAT POST 0FkIcg RASGALITI. :
Mr.. Seeley, post master = Lake City,
writes letter to tho Leader in whisA
he says: Ill. /. s.ss. !. eHs i
In regard to tint s1snaAsston;I nays ihhto
~: The letters were received . thin o1kee-N,
charged up each IS osauts dus."
Query who charged them up "5csnt1
due :" The Ninningsr postnaastsr 1ayf
~ did not. BY law 70 intermediats
postmaster had any right 70 open mail
paasing through his ofaoe; and yet some
postmaster did open them. it Mr.. Ssslsy
ltslls the truth; for he says they arrived
It his Office marked up "due cent?
each; who was it violated the law to pGy,
into our business2 The only intermt
date offices were the Hastings and III
Wing offices. Which was it, Mr.. Seelpt4
Even the most patient man sometimes
reaches point where moderation ceases \
to be virtue. n
Again,-Mr. Seeley says: sae
The statement referred to would, nrunsx-
planned, convey the impression that / had dis
opposing politics, by returning to the Office of
mailing-as unavailable matter-certain open
letters. put up after the manner of printed cir
culars, and frauduently sent through the mail
as circIlars at less than letter rates Of postage.
More special pleading. Mr.. Seeley
knows very well that unavailable matter
consists of matter altogether unpaid, or
matter like gunpowder, nitro-glycerine,
ETC., which would endanger the safety
of the mails, or the mail carriers. This
was not the case with the circulars in
| question; they were partly paid for.
We could have sent these bi Is inside
our paper free of cost and we thought
we had right 10 send them open with
one cent stamp But the idea that
they were returned as .'unmailable
NATTER is the sheerest nonsense-un-
less Mr.. Seely thinks that the Anti
Monopolist is to be ranked with gum
powder, nitro-glycerine and other dead
ly explosives.
| MIR. Seeley continues:
| An attempt was made to collect the amounts.
Some Of the parties addressed. knowing full
| well by the printed cards on the envelopes,
what the contents were, refused to pay the i've
cents for.being dunned.
Now this is an absolute falsehooi. We
have the envelopes yet for the inspec-
ton OF any one there are no .'printed
cards on the enUelopesn The man who
opened them and wrote IS cents DUE"
on each one must have recognised our
i hor 80 81
been guided BY some clue from him when
he sent back those dangerous nitro -glyc-
erins letters 70 ,Nininger as unavailable
/ mattor.n ~,
The namesofi those letters returned
To ~ we're John McShane,..C. F. Gaet-
4Tche, John Expcett, Richard. Purcell,
IJehn-Wears, and D. s. Phillips, all or
Laks City. Now we would like to hear
from these gentlemen whether any OF
them were ever presented by Mr.. Seoley
with the letters addressed to them, and
the cents demsndedf Of them. We
don't believe that any one OF them ever
saw those letters. 49, "a. 4fae@
And again Seeley sAys:
The fact Of mailing those lettersr-disghised
/ az printed circulars--was proof Of fraud, sid
am informed by persons IN the mail service
who have opportunities OF knowing. thai Wffte
en- rnass.r- or that kind has been sent out IL
arse quantities during the past year by the
AMI -MosoPoLlsr. .sst
n The letters were "dfsGuisedr b. leGtr
II ing them open! It Is aapity Seeley dis
guises himself by leaving his mouth
open. Would be b good enough, how
ever, to open it : little wider and tell us
who were those persons" that made the
charge that we were in the habit Of send
, ing out written matter of that kind n
large quantities? And win they explain
why, being lin the mail service" they
permitted these frauds to exist for year
! past, and did not any Of them write
, due S cents" thereon. We brand thu
: charge as an unadulterated lie.
The meaning Of this whole thing Il
, very plain. This Lake City postmastsu
) and the postmaster either OF HastiuRI
or Red Wing have Joined hands to pro.
vent our correspondence reaching thu
? parties to whom it was directed. under
the shallow belief THAI ia some way they
! would cripple or impair our power.
: We defy tn m; and If they want Il
e inaugurate that kind Of warfare they caz
have all they want Of it. We:know hoW
: to treat men civilly, and we know hoiU
' 10 deal blows that leave their mark; and
{ these worthless can have which ever treat
ment they desire, But one thing Is Ger
. tain; we will not be imposed upon b
4 any little two-psnny postmaster.