The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-01-11
Mail Clerks Gagged

says Ridgways Weekly III July there was wreck on
Great Northern Railroad Diamond Lake state Wash
ngtm that cost six lives Exposed death wreck
two railway mail clerks, William Donaghy and Vanlppoey b.
Varous versions official and otherwise given t
Of the accident and finally the mail clerks
Spokane newspapers telling what they knew about It
Donaghy 10 his letter had the emerity tackle James Hill
president Of Gre Railroad He declared that thu
oadbed defective and dangerously higf
speed and that system which he had lifetime
devoted to the railway and railway mail service had he m
held cheap Here fragment Of Donaghys that
literary;
Then why this suicidal speed7 Because the schedule calls fo
l. and engine drivers expected make it. Not only they
expected make but they continually and etera pounded
on the back until they do make it go in the ditch
Occasionally engine driver through regard for his and
other human lives refuses take such desperate chances What
the RESULT He is called up the carpet very politely
informed that unless he make the will be found who
will The has spent the best years OF his life working up
to position which enables him begin clot and feed his
family and afford begin life becomes des-
perae He says himself will make the trying
He uiesand his last the reman last the postal clerks
last the messengers last and incidentally the last ride
Of few passengers ends in Diamond Lake"
For thus speaking their minds the postal employees were
promptly fined $50 apiece and each suspended from his
ten days BY the great of the United States that
other postal employee should fall into their disgracefu
S shalenberge Second Assistant Postmaster General
issued the following muzzng order
1T deemed essential proper administration of public
business that officers and employees of this shall maintain re-
specu official relations with railroad companies carry
ing companies well with their superior officers Railway
postal clerks must engage in with criticisms
Of railroad officials involving the administration Of the postal
vice by furnishing information the newspapers publicly dis
cussng denouncng the omissions of officials as
affecting the postal service Clerks violating this instruction will
be subject to discipline and possible service
All information criticism complaint which clerks officials
from personal knowledge obtain credible soc
looking the bettermen Of the postal
safety Of their persons while officially employed should be for
warded through their superior officers popt nvest
CATION and proper action may be taken"
This odiou order still operative and the that anony
NOUS protest from party Of mail clerks Rdgdays
how badly bdozed the affected by That they feared
70 sign their to the communication IS ptiabe
Peculiarly exposed the yanosb management of Amer
can railroads the railway mail clerks Their are nearly
always carried the engines and scarcely mai train
wreck IN which of them is killed MANNED Beoe
The Shaenberger ukase issued they the only men in
he train with souls free from control they too
roned and the public may only get testimony through the
ensors at Washington.
MIR Shallenberger may be pure kindly SOUL untouched BY
he influence Of the railroads. would be interesting to know
lis sense Of huno is surely deficient Can hear naneled
postal clerk saying railway official Please kind sir it was
God Of you 70 kill me but won't you notify my wfe or please
God sir when get time won't you your box car off me and
ul your coupling pin out Of my chest?'
Roosevelt is modify his order relative the negro soldiers
ismssed on account of the Brownsville affair He forbade their
mpoynent IN the civil service but doubts authority for
ich action Il pleasing witness that the president begins
! realize there is some limitation to his power
All honor to aFoette He is forcing the corporation and trust
majors openly the lime light and il surely obtaining ma
rial Tor another lecture tour Laoete Repubcans and BRYAN
enocracy Will overthrow corporate rule in the United States
The Capital News Is mdy sticking Boraf name 10 the
iend OF the list Of bosses OF Idaho Repubican During the
mpagn 1t ignored his surrender