The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-08-05

opposition to the Western Unio \
Company he is getting square" be
cause he could not obtain some special
advantages for the big Philadelphia
notion store. Nothing is said, either,
about the disgraceful scandal con-
nected with the San Francisco
post Office site purchase. The
truth about the postal service
is that it is utterly demoralized- We
have only to appeal to the daily expert
ence OF our own citizens for conirma-
ton OF this fact. 1t takes. at present,
from twelve to twenty-four hours for
a letter posted in this city to be deliv-
cred in New York. The mails to all
parts of this State are disgracefully
slow, and the carelessness of the Post
Office Department is so great that
losses OF mail matter are of daily oc-
currence. We are ourselves in constant
receipt of complaints regarding the
non-delivery Of matter mailed from
our office.
The history of the Navy Depart
ment is also given with atrocious dis
honesty. The building of the new
ships is claimed as an achievement of
Secretary Tracy's administration in
absurd defiance Of fact. Everyone of
the new ships-the Chicago, York
town, Petrol, Charleston, Baltimore,
Cushing. Vesuvius, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Concord, Newark
and Bennington-was not only
planned and contracted for, but
even well advanced towards compile
ton, in some cases almost finished I'M
der Secretary Whitney's regime. They
are, in fact, the product of Demo-
cratic rule. The nineteen other yes
sells now in course of construction are
also in great degree the work of Mr..
Whitney. They were all planned
and authorized by Congress during
his term Of office, and in every respect
save the mechanical work OF construc-
ton they are the product OF his efforts.
The work of the Interior Depart
ment is the last which calls for ex-
tended notice. Col Shepard handles
1t after the same system of SuppreSsfo
pert as the others. He has not a word
about the Tanner scandal, not a word
about the Raum denominations. The
atrocious crimes of the Indian agen-
cies, leading up to the recent lament
able Sioux outbreak are ignored. Not
a word is said about the abrupt cessa-
ton of the good work of the Cleve-
land regime in checking the abuse of
public land grants. The census is
plastered all over with praise, while its
willful inaccuracy and criminal false
hood are completely ignored.
The Army, Agricultural and Law
Departments are also the subject of
fulsome praise. We know of little to
praise or blame in them. They have
been insignificant since Mr.. Harrison
became President. There seems to be
a design to convert the Weather Blu
reau lntO d pOlAItCdi mtchAhO uhASA
Uncle Jerry Rusk; but in view Of the
records of the other departments that
is a small matter.
OF course the country has got along
under President Harrison. The
routine work of the Government has
been done, more or less well according
TO the department. This is likely to
be the Ease under any administration.
But in sizing up al administration it
is not the routine one' must look at;
1t is the peculiar and characteristic
features. These the Nail and EC-
press has studiously omitted from its
review. We have endeavored to sup
ply the defect in order to aid
the public in forming its own conclu-
sions regarding the merit of the great
firm OF Harrison, Wanamaker, Raum
& Co. IT the facts bear heavily against
that lovely combination, they have
no one to blame but their friend Col
onel Shepard, who has stirred up the
nasty mess gratuitously at a very un-
fortunate time.