The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-10-08

woodrow Wilson was a great man.
He was an idealist and he meant to
serve his country to the end that
right and justice should triumph
over wrong and injustice.
Woodrow Wilson may or may not
have been a good judge Of men. The
weakest feature of his administration
was in his cabinet. There is no doubt
but that some Of its members will
long remain outstanding characters
in our history. There is Franklin X.
Lane. an able secretary Of the inter-
Tor, but lately gathered unto his
fathers; Josephus Daniels, secretary
of the Navy. who will long be remem-
bered as the friend Of man and the
foe of greed; and there is William
B. Wilson, secretary of Labor, who
will be without a rival for years to
come.
Probably no more forceful man in
tfh Wilson cabinet was Ebert S. Bur-
lem. Postmaster general. He is Of
the southern type, an autocrat born
and bred, a democrat in name only,
who claimed membership in the Dem
ocratic party merely because it is the
South.
Burleson is Of the old southern
Olisarchy. He is as truly Bourbon
as was the most faithful adherent of
the kings of France before the Revo-
luton. Burleson is a Democrat in the
South for the same reason that Garv
or Morgan are Republicans in the
North. whats in a name?" asked
shakespear.
Burlesonism, Garyism and Morgan
Ism are synonymous terms. The
burleson postoffice and the Gary steel
plant were operated in the same man.
ner.' There was no difference be-
tween them. Mastery was and is the
rule. Burleson had his spies as had
Gary No one was immune from
tne1r capr1ces' lies or Vaccinations
Inc honest and humane postmaster
was more liable for dismissal from
the service than was the crook.
When Burleson wanted a trust
worthy and dependable first assista Mt
ne lookel about the service and found
one In the person of j. C. Koons who
mad arisen from the ranks and who
was willing ITO bend the cringing
hinges of the knee that thrift might
follow fauning." He found an equally
pllaole solicitor in the person of w.
H. Lamar, who was willing to inter-
pref the law and the Postal Rules
and Regulations to suit the purpose
of Burleson and Rooms.
Burleson, Rooms and Lamar did
more to wreck the Wilson admins
tration than did all other factors cum-
b1ned. They destroyed the human
element In the postal service. Thew
made every railway mail and postal
clerk, every rural and city carrier
every second, third and forth class
postmaster enemies of the adminis-
tration. There are several hundred
thousand Of them in the country and
all busy bodies. Koons spies assum-
ed jurisdiction over postmasters and
reported them for every trivial and
imaginary offence. They ATTEMPTED
TO make a "business" record at the
expense Of the human element in the
service.
When the postmaster at Fargo g.
good and efficient man. ATTEMPTED IN
force supervisory offices in that post
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and because he used strenuous tac-
tics In doing so, he was dismissed
from the service by Rooms, and then
a grand stand play was made to the
public to the effect that the adminjs-
trat1on would not stand for inhuma n
practices by it's postmasters The
Fargo postmaster was made the goat.
what was the truth about the Fargo
Postmaster? Rooms and the DEPART
ment were in bad in North Daknia
ana northwestern Minnesota. They
had so crippled the railway mail scr
vice in their ambition to make "bus-
1ness'' showing by taking off railway
mail cars and clerks art the EXPENSE
OF the service that they saw a chance
TO recover themselves at the expense
OF the postmaster at Fargo.
Fred Schiplin was postmaster q,
st. Cloud, MINI. He was a home
town booster. He became treasurer
of the PAN Motor company, the of.
Ulcers Of which had been indicted bv
Chicago grand jury after g. Minnea-
polls grand jury had refused to in
dict them. Lamar, Burleson's soil.
cltor, had worked up a case against
the Pan Motor company for ''frraudu.
lent use OF the mails" The head ri
the Pan Motor company had previ.
ously operated in Texas, the home
state OF Burleson. All Of the machin.
/ cry Of the postoffice department wa,
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