The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-27
C0RTELy0U
LAsHED BY
ANGRY WOMEN
His Order Depnviing St. Louis Pa
pers Of Second Class Rates
Raises Storm
DAILY BULLETIN OF
WASHINGTON NEWS
Negro Troops Sent to West Point
to Groom Horses for Military
Cadets

Associated Press to The Evening Tines.
Washington. March 27.-When Geo.
B. Cortelyou. as his last official act as
postmaster general. issued an order
depriving two St. Louis publications
of second class rates, he left heri-
tage of trouble for his successor. The
periodicals in question are devoted
solely to the interests Of women and
that they are appreciated by their
subscribers is evidenced by the fact
that thousands of petitions have been
received by Postmaster General Meyer
demanding the immediate repeal of the
ubiquitous order" of his predecessor
in Office. Possibly fearing that the
angry women would descend upon him
in person to enforce their request, Mr..
Meyer has promised thorough eX-
animation of the case.
Meanwhile, the st. Louis publishing
company has secured temporary in
junction against the postoffice officials
from Judge Jacob Trieber of Little
Rock, Ark, and an application to make
the restraining order permanent will
be given hearing today. The right
to second class rates was denied by
Mr.. Cortelyou on the ground that the
mainly for advertising purposes and
at nominal subscription rates.
Negro Troops to West Point.
Possibilities of another Brownsville
affair are involved in the detailing
for duty at West Point military acad-
envy of seventy-five colored troops of
the Ninth cavalry, relieving 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 pre-
dictions are being made that trouble
will result from the innovation. Ac-
cording to the statements of war de-
partment officials, the negro troops
were substituted for white cavalry
men because the latter objected to
caring for the horses and otherwise
acting as lackeys for the young ca
diets. 1t is expected that the colored
men will not object to this service and
will prefer duty at West Point rather
than going to the Philippines with the
other members of the Ninth cavalry.
To Save the slower Classes"
A committee of prominent clergy
men of New York recently visited
Washington for the purpose of en-
listing the aid of President Roosevelt
in checking the religious decline which
threatens, according to the ministers,
to make the metropolis "a nest of in
f1dels, agnostics and atheists" Re-
turning to New York, one of the dis
tinguished clergymen, DR.. Donald Sage
Macay, made the following statement
to the press:
'The president was greatly inter-
ested in the shop meeting campaign
which We have been conducting and
acting on his recommendation, we in
tend to continue these workshop ses-
sions as frequently as possible, in
view of arOusing the lower classes
to proper realization of the relig-
ious crisis on which the city is totter-
ing"
While the letter has not been made
public, it is stated that President
Roosevelt has written the minister
that his reference to workingmen as
the lower classes" is not calculated
to bring them to the proper realiza-
ton" desired. The rebuke, If given,
was certainly merited. Nowhere in
the country have there been SO many
public exhibitions of sncbbery by
clergymen as in the metropolis. 1t
is not strange that the workingmen
of New York should come to believe
in the socialistic theory of classes,
since the moral leaders do so much
to foster the idea. Neither is it strange
that self-respecting working men
should stay away from the churches
presided over by ministers who refer
to them condescendingly as the lower
classes"
OF course, such criticism does not
apply to all New York clergymen nor
even to considerable proportion Of
them. 1t is unfortunate that the snob-
ocrats, working hand in hand with
the socialists to overthrow the ideal
of nation without classes, should
have attained so much prominence.