Show meanness worse confounded we hato had occasion once or twice batly to call attention to the mean low lived and sneaking manner in which a certain U S semiofficial is acting m order to gain for himself a little chap notoriety and work injury to many of our citizens if an officer hag a writ to serve let orllo aping aboul his buonora in manner and liko a man and an officer who is in tent upon doing his duty to tho very letter nothing more and nothing less but when an official stoops to low cunning and means to gain ends to the injury of citizens and which he ia ashamed to pursue in daylight then it is high time that his successor bo appointed if we arc not greatly mistaken the united states government requires no such officer to lay in wait on doorsteps of private residences ready to pounce upon the first juvenile member of tho family living there upon his or her appearance at the door nor is it required of such official whose duty is almost entirely to execute the orders of a court io inaugurate an inquisition on his own private account and in which he has not the manhood nor dare he examine any but mere children if an officer of the united states has reason to believe that a crime has been committed against the laws he has his remedy and instead of prowling around alie door yards of our citizens by taking the kropar course as an officer will gain tho respect of all this style of seeking for information savors too much of the blackmailer or burglar and either one is acon temp tible enough it is hi gh time that those who have within their gift tho disposition of official position inquire first into the character and qualities of the man they wish to appoint before doing so it is not every man or woman who will calmly submit to the questioning of their children about family matters and that too by a stranger it ia sug geeteh that the individual for whom aliis article is intended change his tactic sand act more in accordance with the genius of man and the spirit and intent of the law |