The Sunday globe., 1901-07-07
Of the Railwry POst-Offlce, Gets a
Call Down.
Mr.. MULLIGAN TRIMS HIM UP.
The Outrage OF Well Paid Government Clerks
Running Business Enterprises 10 The Injury
Of Outside CtIlens-The Insurance Compa-
MES and Double Saared Government En-
pOyees The Tribute of Mr.. Castle.

published at St. Paul, Mimi, a short
notice of which The Globe contained
in its last issue, is on our desk. Mr.
Elliott is in the service of Uncle Sam,
as stated, at $1,000 per aAnuln, and is
in receipt Of an annual salary from
The Postoffice clerks of 81 200 for ed
itlng the organ. The Railway Post
office is a sheet of II pages, in period
ical form, and contains sufficient mat
ter to fully occupy all the time Of
Mr. James Elliott, the editor The
! 81, 500 he receives from Uncle Sam is
a pension or free will Offering, as he
certainly cannot and does not render
the public any service for the same
This editors pocket is full of Govern.
ment passes, and the accident insur.
ance company of which he is one of the
officials, is at no expense in the mat
ter Of transportation, etc., which out.
side and competing companies have to
meet, Thus Uncle Sam permits his
public servants to conduct a business
enterprise in competition with citi
zens and taxpayers who are compelled
to pay the salaries Of men like Elliott
to the end that his company may take
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agencies and competitors.
The executive council of this Govern
ment Accident Insurance Company
elect the officers and editor of their
organ, and the latter is supposed to be
subject and subordinate, as in all SINH
lar cases, to the men who create him.
Not so with this man Elliott He has
/ become so arrogant and swelled up
with his double salary that he does
not even hesitate to criticise and at
tack the very executive body and the
members thereof who elected him
their editor.
One of these gentlemen named Null
| lgan, in the present issue of The
Railway Postoffce thus combs the
hirsute locks Of the arrogant editor
and in no uncertain language tells
him "where he is at The following
is Mr. Muilligan's even-tempered and
pertinent rebuke Of the double-salar-
led editor Of this semi-ofiicial Accident
Insurance, Benevolent Insurance and
Railway Postoffice:
1T has pleased our editor to dub a
few ideas of mine, expressed in the
May number of our paper as Multi
ganism." 1t has generally pleased our
editor to style any expression not in
accord with his ideas as an ism,
which, strictly speaking, is a wild or
visionary theory" Wild or visionary
as my ideas may be, it has not pleased
our editor to answer the arguments
which l have therein set forth, and
which he tells me in a personal letter
are plausible"
Were the dark ages with us my
heresy would undoubtedly have
brought me to the stake, so terrible is
tie wrath of our editor; but, in these
enlightened days of ours, our editor
has arrogated to himself an authority
with which we have not clothed him,
when he uses the editorial columns Of
our paper to fay a director Of this cor
poration. / am not responsible to our
editor for my acts and, as a member of
the board to whom he is directly re-
sponsible, it is not his editorial privi-
lege to criticise what l see fit to have
printed in The Railay PostofiCe. His
privilege in this matter is only such
as is possessed by every other member
Of this Association, to whom the news
columns of our paper are open.
1t is pleasant at all times and under
all circumstances to be a good fellow.
and no one appreciates this more than
the president of the Ninth, but to
every man who would do his duty,
there wln come occasions when he
must choose between good-fellowship
and duty; when the ties of good-fellow-
ship must be cast aside and the rough
path of duty trod, as the light is given
him.
Our editor misrepTesents my contri-
button when he says that | intimate
that ways that are dark and devious
characterize the acts of my cOntempO-
raries' Neither do / champion the
cause Of few naTrow.minded cranks
whose petty spites and jealousies are
too small to be noticed; nor would |
have you believe every discordant
note sounded in Association circles
proof of the superior intelligence Of
the harmony disturbing element But
there is such a thing as too much har-
mony of the kind that is dealt out to
us from our editorial sanctum, and
into that brand of harmony | have
rung a discordant note.
Agreeing with me that the members
/ OF the Association have a right to
know something of its affairs, Mr.. FL
| lott asks what l would like to know,
then follows with list of the points
upon which | have been informed. He
says, "he is aware that President Shat
| fer exhausted every effort to bring the
| reclassifcation measure to a success
/ full issue. He is aware that the tactics
employed in overcoming certain OBJ
| stacles could not be published broad
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/ Shaffer exhausted every effort, nor
/ have | questioned it at any time, but
| / repeat that ! must take this for
/ granted for no official information has
| been given me as to what was or was
not done, and as to the tactics EN-
/ ployed | have heard nothing. Nor is
/ this all / have written President Shat
/ fer for information on others matters
of which it was necessary that !
should have information in my divi-
sion work, and the result was the
same. | stand not on my privilege as
a member of the executive committee
in this matter, but on my rights as
member Of this Association.
As to the future Of the Association,
Mr. Elliott takes no issue with me- but,
ask, does the present management
show any disposition to follow along
these lines? To do this would make
necessary a radical change in meth.
DDS. Would this be agreeable to our
present leader? | believe not, If we
are to change methods we must change
men.
Eliminate Shaffer from the race"
says our editor, "and it is not far
fetched to anticipate political mix
mp in which the Association might and
mi ght not suffer At the best the ele-
ment Of risk is decidedly menacing.'
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