Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-13
Mr.. ROOseveIt's appointment OF
Loud.


Chicago Examiner: The universal
postal congress will assemble at Rome
on the 9th of April next The countries
CT the world will be represented to dis
cuss the possibility of improving pos
tai service-of benefiting the earth's
inhabitants by intelligent distribution
of mail and merchandise.
| The civilized countries outside of
America will send to the congress civ
ilized, intelligent, worthy men.
| Whom does Mr. Roosevelt, on be-
half of the United States, send to this
congress?
He sends Mr.. Loud of California TO
represent our postoffice.
And who is Mr.. Loud?
He is the man, as chairman of the
congressional committee in charge of
the postOffice had power to confer the
greatest possible benefits upon the peo-
pie of the country and the postof1ice
employees.
What did he do?
He used his power for the railroads.
which pays outrageous amounts of
public money to public railroads and
pays the smallest possible salaries to
| letter carriers, postal clerks and 9th
erS.
Loud is the man who thought ii per
fectly right to pay for years rent of
a rickety postal car as much as it cost
to build the car-thereby giving the
| railroad a hundred per cent on its in
vestment for the rent of the car alone
He was the man who thought it all
right for the government to pay extra
ordinary and ridiculous prices for car
rying the mail, in addition TO paying
an extravagant rental for badly built
car, which always went TO pieces in
case of railroad accident.
Loud is the man whose servility to
railroads and unfair treatment of post
| Office employees was exposed in the
Hearst newspapers in the east, in Chi
cago and in California, where Loud
had to get his votes.
And Loud is the man who was beat
en- when he ran for congress last time.
He had been elected by plurality
of 1895 votes.
He was defeated by a plurality of
6.735 votes-surely a decided express
ion of public opinion
What else does the country know
about this Mr.. Loud?
He is the man paid by the people of
the United States, and supposed to rep
| resent them, who had the impudence
| TO say:
Such business as the postoffice now
does in carrying fourth class matter
should be done by private enterprise.
If | had my way. the postoffice would
give no more facilities than it gives
today-it would give fewer"
This statement was published.i in the
Worlds Work for December, 1903
1t would have been thought that
man like Loud. shamefully subservi-
ent to railroads. arrOgantly Indifferent
to the will of the people, would have
mixed no more in United States post
Office by the voters.
But the railroads want Mr.. Loud TO
be taken care of.
They owe him many tens of millions
of public money which they would't
have got if a different kind of man had
been III his place.
The railroads want to reward Mr..
Loud for his faithful servity. And, of
course. they want the American people
to pay the reward
And Mr.. Roosevelt, to his shame be
it said, is carrying out the wishes of
the railroads in sending this disgraced
Mr.. Loud to represent the United
States at the universal postal congress
in Rome.
Is not that shameful misuse of exec
utive power? 4aF
The man in Mr.. LIQUIDS own district
ought to know something about him.
BY a plurality of 6135 they declared
that he had proved himself unworthy
in Office, and therefore they removed
him. He was beaten in strongly repub-
lican district.
What happened? Loud was off one
payroll, bun the railroads knew he was
loyal to them. And the railroads didn't
want the United States to send over a
man who would come back with the
IDEA of having the postofiice serve the
people better and railroads less we'll
They picked out as the representative
of America the man who had said, eff
had my way, the postoffice would
give no more facilities than it gives
tcday-it would give fewer" That |
YVES tie kind of man they wanted
And that is the kind of man Mr. |
Roosevelt9has given them.
Our representation at Rome is a dis !
grace to the people of America, dis |
grace to the postoffice. disgrace to |
Mr.. Roosevelt. and a direct insult of |
fered by him to the American voters. |
whose decision he has overruled. If ,
the people remove man from their I
payroll. Mr. Roosevelt should not put
him back. He will realize that eventu-
ally.