The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-12-02
Pittaburn Post.

! courage to acquaInt the public with
that marvellous document, so long
heralded, but l.ermetically sealed
from inspection, the Bristow report
on the postal thieyery. From fear
that the American is illiterate, he
kindly imposed upon himself the
composition of Memorandum"
But his courage, Ike Bob Acres be-
fore the duel, was fast oozing from
his finger tips. He pens sermon
cite on corruption and forgetting his
Panama performance, obtrudes this.
Freedom is not gift which will
tarry long in the hands of the dis
honest, or of those so foolish or so
incompetent as to tolerate dishonesty
in their public servants. The toler-
alton of wrong, not the exposure of
wrong, is the real offense." The
solitary importan mt sentence recon-
meuds extending the statute Of linn
itations to Eve years in cases effect
ing officials.
He advises unrelenting /prosecu
zion Of the indicted officials and he
Incorporates list of the offenders
all of whom he virtually finds guilty
by his review. He bears most
heavily on Tyner, Machen and Beav-
ers, the charges against whom Pay
ne called "hot air." But his. timor-
Gus nature is best displayed by his
sole allusion to the case of Heath.
He puts 1t in parentheses thus:
1.-THE case of First Assistant Post
master General Heath, who had left
the service July 81, 1900 is set forth
in the report of Mr.. Bristow.
Ne sermonette is devoted to that
worthy's conduct, which so richly
affords text. 1t matters not that
the statute of limitations ran in his
favor, or that an :stempt to indict
him once failed. His conduct was
reprehensible, admitting it not to DC
criminal, and it furnished prolific
source of suggestion for the-eharm-
ing discourse on corruption.
Let us see what Mr.. Bristow says
in all that is permitted to be seen ir
the abridgement sent forth. 1t is
u nauseating chronicle of wholesale
thievery mainly during Heath's re
gime and in his bureau. Mr.. Roose.
welt failed to note that consul oil
the United States is implicated by
it. All the species of graft made
familiar when the persons involved
were indicted are detailed carefully,
Mr.. Heath first appears in the
Brandt automatic cashier deal
Judge George f. Baldwin, of Canton
O. now consul at Nuremberg, Nc.
Kinley's old law partner, has SON
in law named Miller, who becomes
the Washington agent.
Miller writes trawn.superintend
ent OF agencies, that Judge Baldwin
advises MIN to have Miller find out
how much Beaver wants in "delars
and cents" to insure success in in
PRODUCING the machines IN the de-
partment. Baldwin goes to Wash
ington by request after this and
Heath buys $50 machines at $3.50 q
piece, the selling price in open
market being 1925. Mr.. Bristow
says Heath should have been sum.
marily removed from office. DID
Charles Emory Smith do it?
Mr.. Heath figures in the Doremus
canceling machine purchases, fol
which Mr.. ,Roosevelt's friend, Ste te
Senator Green of New York, is in
dicted, and Heath escaped. The
money transactions went through
the smashed Seventh Avenue THE
Heath bank. Green states that ht
gave Heath $4,000 in stock in con
sideration of an order for not les!
than 300 machines. Doremus admits
that he was told of the stock trans
fer. But book entries omit names
and there the case fell down, with
the statute of limitations helping
Mr.. Heath also appears in an inter
teresting stock transaction about
the Montague indicator, device to
time collections from mail boxes
Some documents which would in
criminate any ordinary man failet
to convince the district attorney il
Washington Of being enough t.
warrant Heath's Indictment. In al
the subdivisions of his report touch
ing Heath. Mr.. Bristow remarks
that Heath refused to make a writ
ten statement. The whole report il
revelation of petty thievery tina
Mr.. Bristow thinks aggregated $400,
q 900, and the loss to the people only
surmisable. But he mentions on,
item of 100000.