Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-26
TROUBLE over
MAGAZINE RATE
POSTMASTER GENERAL MEYER
FLOODED VITA PETITIONS
FROM WOMEN.
TROUBLE BREWING
s~esenuy-Fi.e coiored Troopers Sta
toned at West point-atnsssers 70
Save the Lower Classes.

George ID. Corselyou. as his last OH
cial act As postmaster general, issued
nm order deprising two St Louis pub
LEGATIONS Of second class rates. he left
a heritage Of trouble for his success
or. The periodicals In question r
devoted solely 20 the interests oil
women and that they are apprecia.
ed by their subscribers Is evidenced
hy the fact that thousands Of peti-
tons have been received by Postmas-
ter General Meyer demanding the i'm
mediate repeal Of the ubiquitous or
der" of his predecessor in office. Pos
sibly fearing that the angry women
would descend upon him In person -
enforce their request. Mr.. Meyer has
promised a thorough reconsideration
OF the case.
Meanwhile. the St Louis publish
Ing company has secured a tempo
rary injunction against the p~ostoffice
officials from Judge Jacob Trieber. OF
Little Rock, Ark, and an application
TO make the restraining order per
manent will be given q hearing To-
day. The right to second class rates
was denied by Mr.. Cortelyou on the
, ground that the publications In ques'
ton are issued mainly for advertis.
ing purposes and at nominal sub
scriptiOn rates.
Negro Troops to West Point.
Possibilities Of another Brownsville
affair are involved in the detailing for
duty at West Point military academy
Of seventy-five colored troops OF the
Ninth cavalry, relieving a similar
number OF white cavalrymen. This
is the first time In the history OF
West Point that negro soldiers have
been stationed there and numerous
predictions are being made that trou:
BILE result from the innovation
According to the statements Of the
war department officials. the negro
troops were substituted for white
c%avalrymen because the latter object
ed TO caring for the horses and 9th
erwise acting as lackeys for the
young cadets. II Is expected that the
colored men will not object to this
service and will prefer duty at West
Point rather than going 10 the Phil
ippines with the other members oil
the Ninth cavalry.
To Save the Lower Classes"
A committee Of prominent clergy
men Of New York recently visited
Washington for the purpose OF en-
listing the aid OF President R0ose
welt In checking the religious decline
which threatens. according TO the
ministers. TO make the metropolis a
nest Of infidels. agnostics and athe
lists" Returning to New York. one
OF the distinguished clergymcn, DR.
Donald Sage Mckay made the follow
ing statement to the press:
The president was greatly inter
ested In the shop meeting campaign
which We have been conducting ant
acting On his recommendation, We in
tend to continue these workshop ses
sions as frequently as possible. II
view of arousing the lower classes
to a proper realization of the relig
ious crisis on which the city Is tot
tering."
While the latter has not been mad'
public, it Is stated that Presiden
Roosevelt has written the ministe
that his reference to w~orkingmen al
the lower classes" Is not calculated
70 UiiuS tIGlu w tuS VIOpci TcutiLa
ton" desired. The rebuke, II given
was certainly merited. Nowhere IL
the country have there been 81
many public exhibitions Of snobber.
by clergymen as in the metropolis.
Is not strange that the %workingme'
of New York should come to believ
in the socialistic theory of classes
since the moral leaders do so mucI
to foster the idea. Neither Is |
strange that se~lf-respecting working
men should stay away I from tn
churches presided owe by minister
who refer to them condescendingly a
the lower classes"
or course. such criticism does no
apply to all New York clergymer
nor even to a considerable propol
ton of them. 1t Is unfortunate tina
the s~nobocrats working hand 4
hand with the socialists to overthrow
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