THE DEMOCRAT.
Mineral Point, Friday, Dec. 4,1885.
Oeo.Crawford. Robt. M. Crawford,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL AND
THE FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE.
The malicious attacks upon Post
master General Vilas by the Pa
cific mail steamship combination
still continue. Editorials in narrow
minded partizan journals like the
New York Tribune, and communi
cations to other newspapers which
will not dare to editorially take
such untenable ground as the ad
vocates of the steamship monopoly
stand upon, are the means em
ployed in the desperate attempt
to prejudice public opinion against
the Postmaster Geneial, who has
dated to act in the interest of the
whole people instead of the interest
of a greedy monopoly. The follow
ing editorial from The Washington
Post of Nov. 22, so fully and com
pletely anwers the charges of the
thwarted subsidy seekers that we
publish it in full:
The Poatofllce Department has made no
formal reply to the hitter and iiersisleni attacks
of the i’aclllc Wall press, headed by the New
York Tribune, There was at no time a necessity
lor any such reply. A number of so called
American steamship companies chose to resent
the exercise hy the I’oslmasler General of a
discretion expressly conferred upon him in the
act of March :i, lss, and being balked of what
they regarded as their appointed prey, elected
to -ever all relations with the Department, and
to organize, through the newspapers controlled
by them, a war of misrepresentation upon the
Department and its management.
