The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-09
Where Was the Georgia
Delegation.

AC' L ~. DySlCL1S
It might be timely here to go little into the
history OF the Inauguration of rural routes in the
united States. This wonderful department of the
mail service had it's inauguration under the wise
and beneficent policy of the Republican party. 1t
was during the administration of the late Presi-
dent Harrison that the first money, the small sum
Oh $4,000, was appropriated by Congress to es-
taDiish the first rural route Then our Democratic
brethren came into power and concluded that the
Government had no right to waste such sum on
such a foolhardy proposition, and during the
Cleveland Administration the money was not used
When Mckinley was elected and the Republicans
once more assumed their own the active work of
establishing rural routes really begun. Its
1mmeasureable value was instantly recognized by
the farmers; from all over the country came calls
for additional routes, it's scope grew by leaps and
bounds, from thousands the appropriations grew
into hundreds OF thousands, and then Millions
until today it is recognized as one of the most
important, if not the most vital part of the mail
service of the United States.
This wonderful development has taken place
entirely under the wise and judicious management
of the Republican party. Under it's regime there
almost universal satisfaction, and it remained
for the present Administration to inaugurate a
policy which has not only retarded the develop
ment of the rural routes but has actually placed
them in state of deterioration.
Where was the Georgia delegation, when
this aggressive Republican was punching the
facts?
Where was Bill Schley Howard, and Tom
Bell, and Gordon Lee, and the rest of the
boys?
Has the Democratic party no ffoor-leader,
these discordant days?
Have German kicks and British prods
taken all of our valor out of US?
Has our Congress reached the point where
the Democratic part of it is 'too proud to
fght?"
This man Hull stood so fair, that some
Democrat should have aimed at least one shot
at him.
Is it possible that the Hon Claude Kitchin,
Democratic House leader, does not know that
the r. +. D. service was inaugurataed by
Hon. William L. Wilson, Postmaster General
under Cleveland?
Is it possible that Democratic Congressman,
generally, do not know that the $4,000 APP
preparation referred to by Mr. Hull, was
made on February II, 1898, and that the bill
carrying it did not become q lar until the last
days Of the Harrison Administration?
1t was the New York man, Bissell, who, as
Postmaster General, ignored the appropria-
ton that | had fought so hard to obtain; but
he died, and President Cleveland put in his
place very noble gentlman and clear-headed
statesman, when he named William L. Wilson
p. O. Inspector, Knight was recently pro-
noted to overhaul the r. f. D. system. and
he seems to be pleasing the patrons of the
routes immensely
His promotion is attributed to his indus
trious efforts to purge the U. S. mails of such
putrid matter as Saint Liguori's Moral
Theology"
1t is a pity the Government promoted him,
before he had a chance to prosecute the Hearst
Sunday papers, the Hearst Sex magazines,
and the hundreds of authors and publishers
who produce obscene and lasciviOus novels.
Knight, | am sure, meant to send Hearst
and Brisbane to the penitentiary.
ITnfnrtnnatelv his enerries are NOW nannnn-