Arizona republican., 1919-04-25
MR. BUR[ESON GETS
 TASTE.0F HIS OWN
 BITTER MEDICINE
Director Post of Publishers Answers-Says Public Knows Service Is made quate-Postmaster Needs Defense.

NEW YORK, April 24-Replying to a statement tonight to the charge of Postmaster General Burleson that he si the victim of an organized propa- ganda," Charles Johnson Post, director of the publishers advisory board. de- clared that it was not the publishers of the country who needed defense but the postmaster general. He assert ed tha. demoralization of the postal service was a fact which every busi- ness man and American home was able to judge.
 'The amazing official statement by Postmaster General Burleson in his own defense against his refusal to transmit the news dispatches of the New York World because such dis patches reflected on his capacity, is a I challenge to every serious thinking American, even though he rescinded such order the following day. said Mir. | Post. That such a Prussian and vicious ono man censorship can be es- tablished in the postoffice by MT. Bur- r leson, or any one else, reveals a menace to our nation and American ideals far beyond Mir. Burlesons point, that he ! thinks he has been criticised too 1 harshly
 1 Whether the postal service is good ! or bad. is not a matter of argument or | of MT. Burleson's personal opinion. The i public knows from it's own experiences l suffered day by day, from the camps l in France to the commerce of Frisco l and as evidenced by the impartial in vestigations and the resolutions of the most reliable business organizations oi the country.
 What MT. Burleson calls organized propaganda is the expression of sen timent of hundreds and hundreds O l responsible business organizations with their many thousands of bushes! 1 members, chambers of commerce. edu cational labor organizations, religion. organizations and cultural organiZa tions, that have formally condemned the various inefficient postal methods and principles which he champions.
 Post Hurls 1t Back
 He specifically upholds the viciou.
 and un-American postal zone law witt it's unfair postage charges against dis
 tant American communities, and al
 Ieges that the publishers of the coun
 try newspapers and periodicals are il !
 Postmaster General Burleson is. attack
 ing by means of the zone law are no publishers, but they are the readin
 men and women, the reading homes o
 this nation For by this postal -Zon
 law he demands that any periodica
 shall cost more in postage to an Amer
 ican reader because of, and in pro
 portion to, that readers accidental re
 moteness from any point of publica
 ton. And when public spirited an
 representative organizations such a the American Federation of Laboi , the Merchants association of Ne' York, the General Federation of Wom
 en's clubs, the National Grange, tn
 National Education association an : hundreds of others protest against thi vicious and un-American law, he say
 that such expression of opinion doe
 not have for it's real purpose any desir for improvement in the postal or vii
 service, but is intended to aid in ac ' complaining a reduction of the rate of postage on second-class mail (news papers and magazines).'
 "On the contrary, the publishers the country are fighting in order tn; 1. every American shall pay the san postage for the same American peric dical or newspaper, no matter where : happens to live. Publishers are fight 5 ing for equal postage to every Amer | can everywhere"