Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-01

to the woods. The Sabbatarians sue
ceeded in putting rider on the post
office appropriation bill forbidding
the delivery of mails on Sunday. This
applies in Washington, as we'll as
elsewhere. If you want your mail
you've got to go to the postoffice
before IL o'clock in the morning to
get it. If you want to buy a postage
stamp on Sunday you've got to ask
a druggist to sell you one or patron
ize slot machines in the hotels, which
grind out two twos and a Red Cross
stamp for five cents, when they work.
A business man arranged to send out
a thousand letters here few weeks
ago. 1t was important that these be
delivered on Monday morning, and
he delayed mailing them until Sun
day afternoon. Then he discovered
he had no stamps. So he had to send
boys around to the hotels to work
the slot machines. 1t cost him five
dollar contribution to the Red Cross
Association besides what he paid the
boys, to get his stamps.
To be consistent, why don't the
Sabbatarians insist on stopping the
trolley cars and trains and shutting
down telegraph and telephone service
on Sunday? It's curious that a GER
tain class of reformers always want
to make everybody else stop work
when they stop. Most of us, ] sup
pose. would like to take a day a
week off from work, but a good many
of even the strictest Sabbatarians read
Monday morning newspapers, which
have to be got out on Sunday.
One of the few valid objections l
have ever heard urged in opposition
to public ownership of railroads, troll
leys, telephones and telegraphs is
that Congress would be likely to lis
ten to the Sabbatarians and give us
service only six days In the week.
Republican senators are making a
hullabaloo over the, Democratic pro-
posal not to put under civil service
the jobs to be created by the income
tax collection. Civil service has al
ways been more or less a matter of
the Tins" and outs" While Roose-
welt and Taft covered all the post
masters, consuls, diplomatic clerks
and thousands of others under the
civil service by executive order, they
first filled all the good jobs with Re
publicans. Cleveland's first famous
civil service order nailed down jobs
for host of Democrats. A new adj
ministration is seldom strong for
civil service. A party out of power,
or going out, is always strong for
| civil service to take care of its own
people already in Office.
Despite the Republican howl over
the Democratic proposal to leave the
income tax Jobs open for Democrats,
most of the new jobs Of any number
created under Republican administra-
lions in recent years have been made
under laws that permitted temporary
political appointments to be made be-
fore the date fixed for civil service
rules becoming effective, and the tenn
porary appointees have generally
managed to stay in when civil service
| began.
| There are some Democrats, a good
many, in fact, holding civil service
Jobs under the government, but in the
| long years of Republican rule the
party in power was usually able to
make certain Republican got the
| lob when there was a candidate of
both parties on the eligible list.
| Senator MARITIME announced in the
Senate the other day that he had in
formation to the effect that out of
$50 postoffice inspectors in the service
all but thirty-f are now Repub-
leans. OF course that may be just
| coincidence. A good many men have
changed their politics to get jobs.
believing it would help. President
Wilson is being criticized a whole lot
among Democrats for his slowness in
| turning all the Republicans out of
office, while the Republicans say that
| the so-called civil service examina-
| lions Postmaster General Burleson
devised for fourth class postmasters
were mainly intended to give him a
chance to put Democrats in the jobs