News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
THE POSTMASTER QUESTION,

MEssRs. EDITORS
Have read call in your last issue for a
meeting for the people at this place to vote
for some one to serve as Postmaster here
Now while some may think this is the time
and way to settle the matter, we think a
very large majority do not think it necessary
to ask the people to come out at this busy
time, as it is almost sure to be bad travelling,
SO no one would think of coming out except
in case of some emergency, and as we have
good efficient Postmaster who has several
months to serve, no such emergency now ex-
lists. We are inclined to think, too, that
some who receive and send much mail that is
important to be handled carefully and sent IN
the channels that will insure safe and speedy
delivery are more interested, and as these pay
SO large a share towards the revenues of the
Office, have right to be heard in different
way from those who have little or no inter-
est in the matter, simply voting for some one
because they had been asked to. 1t might be
an easy matter for some one to get the most
votes in this way, that really did not have
any good claim, or qualifications either. We
talk loud about civil service reform, but when
we scream and scramble for place like this
before it is decided who is President, it looks
as if we really wanted it if it would let US in,
or if in to keep us there, and in no other way
did we want it. We are now living under an
administration that does not consider that
honorable service in defending our country in
its hour of need is disqualification for office
but on the other hand it is admitted,
other things being equal, as sufficient reason
of itself for the offices in many cases How
many thousand of us marched to the ballot
box and cast vote for President Harrison
because he stood like a bulwark face to face
with rebel shot and shell, and with all his
other good qualities it is quite probable that
he would not have been called upon to serve
in the first position of this great country.
Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are still
marching" When the time comes for a
change to be made we shall ask the govern
ment and the good people of Morrisvile to
let some soldier who answered the call of his
country when it was in much different di-
rection, to have this place for four years, not
for some one who sets himself up. When our
comrades who are now away shall return We
will look the field over and consider the claims
and qualifications of each carefully. Wethink
we will be able to fix the matter in a way that
will be generally satisfactory, without re-
| sorting to the means the Democrats used four
years ago, which caused i'll feelings that
not forgotten yet. And we shall confidently
expect, as the place has been for % years in
the hands of the citizens, since the war COM
menced all except four years in one family,
our request will be cheerfully granted; for if
we have it at all it would be possible before
the last of US are in our graves or unable to
perform the active duties of life, it would not
| be more than half of this % years, and the
young men of to-day will then have a good
pros )ect of many years of usefulness before
| them But we only ask for four years. And
surely any young man who has had food, shell
| ter raiment, education, in fact everything di-
rect from this Office for "A years cannot fail
| to see the justice of our request. There will
| be plenty of time for the Sons of Veterans
after the veterans have had chance, and we
| think any young man will cheerfully bide the
| time, as four years would better fit him for
place, while the soldiers are fast passing away.
Death is doing it's work rapidly with the men
| who served from 1861 to 1865. The hard
ships were too great for long lives. Soon the
last one will have answered the last roll call,
and we hope and pray that the young men OF
to-day will never know by experience the suf-
fering and hardships of a soldier in time OF
war but some of them may be good Post
masters and fill other positions of trust and
responsibility when our work is done. 1t
now seems quite probable that the people
will soon be called out in a regular meeting
to consider the matter of having tannery in
this place, which will be a case to be attended
to at the proper time This matter of Post
master could be attended to at the close Of
such meeting, or some evening when the roads
are passible, if it is done in meeting at all.
A. f. WHITNEY,
| For the Soldiers and their Friends
Morrisyille, March Is.