Bisbee daily review., 1905-03-16
PosTOFFICE AND IMPERIALISM

POsTOFFICE AND IMPERIALISM
 Ex.Secretary Cortelyou's transfer to the postmaster generalship serves anew to emphasize the curious workings of the great federal machine erected by the republican party. which has fol years gradually been concentrating political power in the heads of govern ment departments and particularly has made the postoffice the center of party control. says the Republic.
 Most people respect MT. Cortelyou. the secretary Of two presidents. ss e reputable and extremely intelligent and capable man, and there has been at no time. even during the campaign. sn effort to dispsrsge him personally even on the part of the most narrowly partisan newspaper; but his case is the most extreme illustration of in- herent iniquity of the imperislistic machine encTosching upon the coun- try's democratic institutions and threatening to over ride populsr will.
 Mir. Corteyou was put into cabinet position specially created in aid of the mschine-the department of com merce, position of official vantage bfinging the party into intimate rela- tions with and giving it a stronger purchase on the giant corporations of the country; a post eminently qualify ing the holder of the place for csm- psign manager and collector of con- sIibtions. Graduating from the de- partment of commerce, Mir. Cortelyou was made national chairman of his party during the campaign. Much nnplesssptness arose from criticism offered against Mir. Roosevelt for taking a man out of the cabinet-out of pub io service to do party work of this kind; but it would have been strange indeed if the American people had not regarded Cortelyou' position and cam paign collections in the light of his former employment. It would have been stupid in the people to have re- garded his collections from the corpor stions as anything other than fat-fry ings deliberately planned in the party mind. It was a sheer distrainmen' and extortion from the protected monopolies.
 Precisely ss the department of com merce fitted Cortelyou tor the chair manship, so did the latter place qual fly him for the postal department. I is the big political department. How ever clesnly he may conduct it, not withstanding his personal probity, b. will inevitably have the great corpora tions and protected industries at hi mercy-at the mercy of the machine in any event. The postoffice depart ment must powerfully strengthen tn machine. under the management 0 men like Payne and Cortelyou. trsiue' in party affairs, both in it's relations t. the financial and industrial power and in its relation to the country gen s1ally; the postofices of the osuntr, being the principaI political feeders as seen especially in the last campaign The postal department is the source o perquisites, scene of distribution ant nucleus of control. E2x
 IImperislism' worst form is exhib tied in the machines despotism. arro gstion and abuse of power increasingl, manifest in the republican party With its growth in power and perfec tion of organization the party's neces sity for pretense fades. The success sion of appointments through whici Mir. Cortelyou has been brought int the postmaser generalship marks tn limit of party and machine daring,