The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-04
EUGENE LIQUIDS
GOOD WORK

Editor OF Call: take much interest
IN the pending campaign. 1 notice the
press and speakers representing that
party to which 1 belong have failed, it
seems to me, to give adequate empha-
sis to the good work our member of
Congress from the Fifth District. Hon.
e. +. Loud, has given to the country
while he has been our representative.
While looking out upon Market street
and noticing those white cars (mes-
sengers of peace or war; speeding along
that we who live away from the center
of the town may get our mail before we
start out for our daily work; this was
brought about by him
I received a letter the other day from
farmer who lives some five miles from
his postoffice, saying, I'VE have the
first mail delivery to-day. Think it a
grand success These are the acts
that tend more than almost any others
to make farmer boy -contented with
his vocation, and acquaints him with
the affairs of his country by enabling
him to get the daily paper.
All our prosperity comes from the
soil, and those who cultivate it are our
benefactors. So all credit should be
paid to him who makes this isolated life
about by our member. His Iabors in
and out of session and season have
been earnest and jealous to reform our
postal laws to the end that private and
incorporate advertisers greed should
not SO weigh down the mails, as they
have heretofore done, that really
beneficent service for the public good
has to be often dropped.
The speculative uses of the mails are
a crying evil that our member has sue
ceeded in abating SO far as that branch
of Congress could to which he has been
accredited.
The first step q man of good common
sense takes when he wants to employ a
member of any profession or engage a
person to manage the affairs of a cor
poration in which he has an interest is
to select some one that will guard well
his interest and bring it to success
Equally so should the voter exert his
best Judgment In selecting his repre-
sentative. 1t would take new man
and an able one five years to equip
himself for the usefulness of our pres
ent member. To what sad end would
our great corporations come should
they change their manager every two
years.
The only objection 1 hear to Mr.. Loud
is he has not "suaviter in mode" says
a public speaker. do you want to send
dancing master to Congress?" he
added. Let us have the man of level
head and untiring industry.
Few voters, I fear, fully appreciate
the difficulties that are coming with a
proper settlement of the questions
growing out of our late war. We well
remember the bitterness that was en-
gendered by the debates upon the re-
constructive measure after the Civil
War, when the President was brought
to the bar of the Senate and tried for
Impeachment, and now no one reading
after the cooling. lapse OF thirty odd
years. the messages, papers and 'rial
OF President Johnson. as recently d b.
lished by authority of Congress by
James D. Richardson, member of Con-
gress from Tennessee, can come to any
other conclusion than the follv and the
wrong of 1t all. Why not look for as
great errors now unless wisdom and
sound judgment control? Very truly
yours, MARK SHELDON
421 Market Street.
San Francisco. Nov. 3.