The age-herald., 1902-01-02
Country Editors Object to Step ping of the Credit System.

per rates of postage to all bogus and illegitimate publications claiming to be newspapers, such as the familiar and innumerabie five and ten-cent "libraries'' and advertising schemes. That one act added vastly to the number of readers of actual newspapers and largely in creased the advertising receipts of such journals, while at the same time it saved to the government ten million to twelve million dollars yearl
 
 Certain publishers and firms in other business that are unwilling to pay for legitimate advertising in legitimate news papers are organized for a mighty effort to induce Congress to pass an act nulli- flying Postmaster General Smiths great and wise order against publications which are falsely claimed to be news papers and entitled to newspaper rates of postage. A lobby agency calling itself American Civil and Religious Liberty Association" with "A. F. Williamson, secretary. Allegheny, Pa.," has sent let= ters to all Congressmen and enclosing with each letter a petition to the Presi-
  ITO the President of the United States" praying for assistance in undoing the Postmaster Generals work in behalf of newspapers.
 This fake ''non-poltical, undenomina- tional, non-partisan' association in sup port of "civil and religious liberty ad- dresses each Congressman as Respected Friend" and proceeds to say ''Your name Is handed to us with the assurance that you are at heart a friend to civil and religious liberty, and with the further assurance that you are a person of in fiuence amongst your fellows"
 The grossness of the impertinencei
 "As a friend of civil and religious lib- erty." this hypocritical association pro- ceeds, i've invite your cooperation on behalf of these principles, and request that you obtain as many signatures as possible in your shop, in your lodge, in your Post, and in general from, those with whom you associate"
 The monumental cheekl
 In the petition the President is in- formed: ''we doubt not that it is without your knowledge or approval that the present postmaster general, MT. Smith, and his third assistant, Mr. Madden, are attempting to usurp the functions of Con- gress, and to make postal laws, under the name of postal rulings, which are inimical to the interest of the masses"
 Monstrous presumption!
 This whole rubbish, fresh from the typewriting machine and the Mergan- thaler, Is before me as these words are written, and 1t is nauseating! It is to be followed up by powerful lobby. and grief to the "Civil and Religious Liberty'' Association.
 For reasons of politics, and incidentally of state, the President found himself un- willing to accept MT. Carnegies gift of ten million dollars in the bonds of the billion-dollar steel trust for somewhat mysterious university in Washington mysterious in the sense that the public is entirely ignorant of it's real plan and scope. Mir. Carnegie. with characteristic amiability--that little, short, stocky, round-faced man and great millionaire is the most amiable of men personally readily yielded to the Presidents reason ing; and his interview in the White House ended. he hurried back to New York. Now comes the story that MT. Carnegie has sold those bonds ''by" auction, as the Scotchman says it, for much near twelve million than ten million, and there is re- sultant pleasure in the White House
 The sale being true we may look for Presidential message on the subject of MT. Carnegie's gift early after the re-as- sembling of Congress, next Monday, Meantime the public is in the dark as to MT. Carnegie's richy-endowed schema for higher education at the national cap- itai" George Washington dreamed of great national university in the capital that bears his name, but his hopes were based upon university controlled by ana conducted under the government, and some of his successors shared that view: but great seat of learning owned and controlled by the government would seem now to be impossible. and MT. Carnegie ana President Roosevelt are known to not contemplate any such arrangement.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER. >>>-s-s><<-<<e><~< instituting of proceedings to break the < merger of the Southern and Mobile SOhio railroads. It is very likely that the pro- ceedlngs will begin within ten days.