The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-08
The Fourth Clasa Posi- Mastere.

The Fourth Glass Post Masters.
We directed public attention to the raid
being organized on the treasury BY the
fourth class posimasters, in previous issue,
which itappears made one. al least, Of the
raiders sick and be appeals to the public for
sympathy through the Whig last week. We
shouldn't wonder Ii he is sicksr when we
get through with him. In place of giving
some reason for, or argument TO justify, this
organized raid on the treasury, he proceeds
to inform The public that the 18th classp
raiders have selected Cor else '.4lh class" is
self appointed) blackguard to champion
their cause. This is as 1t should be. A
cause is never better than its defenders, and
the public are pretty apt to judge the former
by the latter.
In place Of trying to Justify this attempted
steal BY hundred thousand 4th class post
masters, this 9th district defender Of the raid
turns on the Star Route mail carriers.
These men, every one of them, deliver the
mails through all weathers, and always
punctually on time, enduring far more hard
ships and performing infinitely more hard
service than any 4th class postmaster, and
for much less pay for the work than the
postmasters receive. If they were consistent,
BY the rules the 18th classers" are attempt
ing to establish. they would have oHt petit
tion for signers asking government to fur
nish them horses ard wagons. Such a
movement on the part of the S.ar Route
mail carriers would exactly parallel the
present raid the 4th class postmasters are
oraDizing. /, is quite probable they, the
Star Route men, could get as many signers
to such petitions as the 4th classers have
got. People will sign about anything
in the shape of petition. They do il
thoughtlessly, and are astonishingly care
less in this respect. The signatures to a
petition are seldom evidence of it's merits.
We venture the prediction if Rising Sun
post Office was advertised to be let on day
named for 5000 less than the present in
cumbent receives for his backaching and
brain racking service, that score or more
Of the signers of the petition filled up here,
would be in town before daylight al the day
the Office was to be ''let" to get first place
in the line Of applicants.
There are hundreds of worthy, qualified
men in this district breaking stones, chop
ping wood and foddering the cows, working
for less than half the money that the best
paid Alb class postmasters receive, and are
not circulating charity petitions to furnish
them house rent and firewood to toast their
shins by when the days work is done. When
Mr.. Hindman. held the post Office in Rising
Sun he never petitioned for any additional
perqnisites. He was we'll satisfied with the
pay OF the Office, in fact was willing to con-
duct it four years longer on the same terms.
There would be no difficulty in finding bali
dozen sixteen to twenty year old girls in
town and immediate neighborhood, within
"a hours who will take the office and con-
duct the business as we'll as il has ever been
done for $500 or 5000 year. And what
applies TO this Office holds good for every
Office in the county, state and nation.
Everybody remembers the mad scramble
there was two years ago to get the post
Offices. Delegation after delegation went to
Washington. Rival delegations were ready
to stick each other with butcher knives.
They told Clarkson, the 9TH class dispenser
of favors, how they had worked for the
ticket;" how they had worn oil cloth capes
and caps and carried torches and "hoIlered''
for Harrison and Morton till they were
hoarse. And there wasn't la word said about
rent and FIRE wood.
Well, il was determined to turn the post
Offices over to the G. A. &. men who had
earned them before their grown up children
were born, and every body else subsidized as
soon as this was learned In addition TO
"fat takes" which lots Of girls stand ready
to perform the duties Of for half the pay the
present incumbents receive, $l33, 000, 900
we're appropriated by Congress as annual
pensions for the soldering that was done
% to 80 years ago, and these 4th classers
receive their full share Of this bounteous
gift from grateful people, and in the face
of this we find this army post Office mas
;ers, organizing a raid on the treasury for
more. The audacity and impotence Of the
movement. is paralleied only by gang Of
road agents holding up mail train. The
hobbling attempt of "A Fourth Glass P.
NJ" to plead his own case veri6es the old
adage that he has a fool for client.