Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-08

Now that Congress is in session "The
| Little Caesar" as the publishers of perodi.
calls have dubbed Third Assistant Post
master General Madden some definite regu.
lations governing second-class mail matter
will be given the sanction of law At
| present Mt Madden is as absolute as the
| Gar of Russia and as capriciously unfair
and uncertain as the Sultan Of Turkey. In
the same decision he will affirm aud deny
the same thing with the Inconsistencies
of am autocrat who is not required to either
think CT be consistent He has inflicted
incalculable loss on the publishers Of the
country and taken such snap judgment on
numbers Of them that they have been
almost ruined in business.
This official, like all the administrative
chiefs of departments in Washington is a
foreigner by birtli-a Cauuck-aud he is
possessed ofthat absoluteness Characteristic
of the oficialdom of monarchics.
lie is ambitious as the devil and being a
uaturalized Michigauder he aims like
Jimmy Boyle) 20 be a governorl
But Mr. Madden is up against it good and
hard lie has otouy alarmed but aroused
the publishing interests of the country, out
side the newspaper press which he cult.
Yates slavishly and sedulously.
100 the current issue of The dmericaU
/ Printer, published by Mr. j. Clyde Oswald.
Nassau street New York Mr.. Maddens
sinister, exasperating and autocrauc as
sumption of censor to the periodical publi-
cations of the American Republic is trench
anty exposed logically condemned and
overwhelmingly denied, refuted and yigor-
ously damned
The publication known as NeU5babcy-
a0m, however, comes nearer to our way
Of accounting for Mr.. Maddens insane If il
Is not infamous attempt to discriminate in
favor Of certain railway express and mono
polstic companies under the gauzy pre-
tense of economy in the carrying of second
class matter through the mails Madden is
undisguisedly accused in the following
paragraph of sufficient to warrant an imme-
diate investigation by Congress Of this
whole matter. Here it is, the concluding
paragraph of a lengthy double loaded
editorial in this responsible publication
: known as ''NEWsPApERDoM" published in
/ New York
"For Madden in his frantic eudeavors to
/ hide the real cause Of the postofhce sys-
I tem's cost-the favoritism shown to certain
contractors for supplies, the eXtortons
/ praClised by the railway and express COM
I panies and the iusauate appetite of these
monopolies for a greater share of the public
money Madden has gone a step too far.
He surely has, and so has Postmaster
General Smith. IL the allegations quoted
are true.
In no blue book ISSUED by the Govern
meut of the United States shall you find
the designation. Press Censor Edwin G.
Madden"
Neither shall you find, in any of the
codices which guide the postolhce depart
mcnt of the country authority for the down
right usurpltiou of power which is the
salient feature of CHAT departments present
methods
Yet tine press censorship Is "a fact; and the
usurDation is another fact To-day the
censorship of the uureasoning Madden is
harming only "A limited class of business
men-thc publishers. Tomorrow 1t may
+ I'm an likelihood IL certainly will-be the
lot of every newspaper publisher to fall
under the lash of NJ ldlcns ambition.
Beginning last spring with his notorious
circular aimed at the adjustment of the
so-called premium publications, Edwin c.
Madden third assistant acknowledgement
has moved forward swiftly to the assump-
ton of supreme authority over the pub.
/ Usher of periodicals of all classes, even the
most legitimate and educational Where
he then asserted his right 60 relieve the
burden of the secoud-class mails by any
means he conceived possible, Inc now as
sumcs to dictate TO amy publisher what his
advertisers shall say, what paper the publ
cation may use In It's advertising pages
and with what inks those pages shall be
printed. For all this Madden has no legal
authority, Congress the lawmaking power
has repeatedly denied to the postal officers
the very rights this bureaucrat has COM
. phcenuy assumed
Complaints against Madden the post.
master-geueral placidly refers to Madden
himself, and there is thus presented the i'm
credible spectacle Of public servant pro.
nouucing finally upon the justice fhis own
actsl
To every essential purpose, Edwin c..
Madden is Caesar, above law and beyond
reason, bound TO cite no stronger authority
than his will and governing the publisher
with a despotiC way,
The recognized organ Of the master
printers of America is The dMericaH
PyiUtcy--a publication thatis either educa-
tonal and representative, oruothing
In common with every other periodical
devoted to the interests of the printer, The
american VyiHtey has been used to allow IT'S
advertisers certain latitude in their pub.
licity-gettng through It's pages--to permit
them TO advertise in many ways which were
not exactly of the everyday sort but
wholly Legitimate for all that, and the more
SO because during quite twenty years no re-
stricdon has been placed thereon by the
postal authorities. Paper makers, for eX.
ample, have been accustomed TO prepare an
insert bearing an advertisement printed
upon some special kind of paper, and that
insert has been bound In with the regular
forms of the periodical,
Now, however, Economist Madden dis
covers that The dmeyicaH Printer has
violated the law by sending it's issue
through the mails at second. class rates with
such inserts included.
Madden will not say TO the publisher OF
The imcyicau PyiHfey exactly what con
sttutes a violation Of the claw" in these
inserts OF iu any Of them. lie merely de-
clares that they do violate IT, giving no
reasons-aud, forsootb, why should he Civ,
reasons, indeed Is De- not above the law