| Show THERE HAV BEEN OTHERS Thc stealing In the Cuban postal service ser-vice Is most humiliating because up to that the Nation was rejoiced at what was being done there and the world marveled exceedingly at the spectacle which was being displayed in comparison com-parison with what Cuba was under Spanish rule But It Is not the first stealing of the kind under tie Government Gov-ernment I was much worse In the old Democratic days of Monroe and Jackson An Eastern contemporary r has been looking the matter up and says The administration of department depart-ment affairs under Monroe Adams and Jackson was scandalously and often corrupt Barry who was Jacksons I first Postmastc General had to resign I In disgrace because of the disclosures made as to his management or affairs Tho contractors for mal service ran the department to suit themselves Samuel L Gouverneur a relative of President Monroe who had been postmaster post-master at New York for many years was dismissed after he had robbed the Government of a H lanr > nmnnr IT was the accomplice of a mall contractor contract-or The postofilcu robberies were petty compared with those In other departments depart-ments Samuel L Swartout appointed appoint-ed Collector of the port of New York by Jackson defaulted to the amount of nearly a million and a half Jesse Hoyt appointed as his successor by Van Burn swindled the Government out of about a half a million dollars Out of about sixty land ofllqe receivers of public money fifty defaulted to the amount of JS200QO The operations of Neeley and his associates which Justly provoke so much Indignation would have created hut little excitement had they happened In the good old Jackson Jack-son days Then there really was what Senator Hale speaking of recent steal ings in Cuba calls a carnival l of fraud and corruption But of the em bexzlers of seventy years ago few were punished or the men who have been stealing In Cuba few If any ylll escape es-cape Indeed the public service has shown less and less stealing from the days of Washington down New safeguards have been drawn around Government business year by year until It is a difficult matter to swindle the Government Gov-ernment much und escape Of course that does not change the status of tho Cuban thieves They should have double dou-ble punishment for their crimes They have betrayed their trust and dishonored dis-honored the country right where there was a universal desire that a good record should be made |
