Show A GOVERN SLAVE A CURIOUS CASE o Qt oJ involuntary t i servitude ser comes comas out of C Mississippi No it is IB not a n cruel planter plantar who ho Is ts 8 holding holdIn in chains a poor but ho cSt though ignorant black bluck The Fhe govern government government ment une t of the United Unite States or at least the pj department of the gov government go is at fault faulL The story is told In a n dispatch to the Chic go Record Herald as follows A I L Horton a n negro postmaster at atWay Vay Way Station Statton Madison on county miles north of or here maRes manes the hargo that he its is i being ins hold In peonage e by the tho department dC HorlOn Horton has ha fre O to r ne O t office department refused refu ed to accept the thel l fur the reason that no other oth r person can bo be found to take the theo o ht Tie rho n r that iliaC the post p st lIa tor is holding him in lun WrY servitude Je and that ne nc i Is losing money mone by b serving as postmaster tor It Y surely rely fely Is 18 s not true that nobody can be found to take this office Wo VO are sure there are arc Democrats in Mis Mississippi who hd through long fong ab cc fro i the tle public crib would d be glad gla l to take talle even this place pl ee But i il perhaps l the soul of at the proud pro j J would revolt at sit the gh of going into a place that had nad been bee soiled 1 and ai n 1 sullied by bya a suh I And if It this is true why cannot some other negro be found Can It be pos possible possible sible that there is only one negro in inthe Inthe inthe the postal district served by Way Sta Station Station Station tion to whom the door of ot opportunity opp should swing sing open Must it remain closed to all the other colored men I and atI brothers Seriously it is 15 not fair for the gov gOY government omm nt to hold bold Horton longer If It he I feels that he must get out of the place and if U no successor can be found round thou then the postoffice should be closed Sed |