The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-01
A BADLY COACHED
Editor Wastes Half Column of Space In Show
ing How Little He Knows.

ing How Little He Knows.
If a fresh Illustration were needed of the
truth of the adage that "fools rush in
where angels fear to tread" it may be
found in an editorial in yesterdays Com
mercidI, entitled ogden Postal Service. -
The article, which is an evident attempt to
shield incompetency and gloss over official
carelessness, starts out with denial and
rnisstatement or facts. The Commercial did
say that this Office is equipped as village
postoffice. This it now denies. 1t says
''its allowance for clerks is that
allowed villages of from five thousand
to seven thousand population" That
is not true. 1.-The classification and
allotment of clerks in the Ogden
Office" says the Commercial lis based
upon the census of 1880, when, according
to the report of the census commissioner,
Ogden had 6,069 inhabitants" Such a
statement as this shows that the writer
procured his information from some one
who knows as little about the postal laws
and the manner of running q postoffice, as
the Commercial man knows about running
newspaper, for the statement is absolutely
untrue. The salary of the postmaster and
1.-THE classification and allotment of clerks
in the Ogden Office" are based entirely
upon the gross revenue of the Office. The
population of the city has nothing what
ever to do with the matter. Whether it be
true that the correspondent of THE HER
AID and other papers, did not complain
of the mail service until the Commercial
had declared itself and pointed out the de-
fects and the way in which they should be
reme6ied, is immaterial, especially since
the Commercial never assigned the true
reasons for the endless complaints. or
pointed out the only legal way by which
the defects could be remedied. When the
badly coached editor of the self-constituted
organ attributes the criticisms of the pub
lie upon the Encouragement of the Ogden
postoffice to political reasons, he shows
more than ever how little he knows. 1t is
Just such small minds as this which seek to
cover up the truth by stringing together a
lot of meaningless phrases and glaring mis-
statements. No one but an imbecile would
pretend to see anything personal
in what The HERALD correspondent has
said concerning the Ogden postoffice. Its
management has always been spoken of as
being needless intiiction of annoyance and
loss upon the public. THE HERALD has
pointed out the way to bring the Office up
to that stage of efficiency that the sum of
8, 400 per year will admit of. That's all
sit matters not' to the general public
what the political persuasion of the post
master may be, Ogden wants better
SERVICE" says the Commercial, and to this
TIE HERALD agrees. Politics cuts no
figure i'll the matter AS TO the CONNER
cidls statement that THE HERALD man
knows, if he knows anything that this
Office probably meaning the Ogden
postonico and not the Commercially
is classed as third Glass; it is
only necessary to say that THE HERALD
man knows that it is rated as a second
class Office by the postofice department at
Washington, and that the only third-class
thing about it is the manner of its conduct
It IS to be hoped, for the public good, that
postal matters in Ogden will not be fur
Their complicated by the authorities acting
upon the suggestions of one who has shown
himself to be such an ignoramus as the
writer in the Commercial