| Show HE WANTS TO ABOLISH SUNDAY and have all mail matter stopped con ol 01 the cheap john wanamaker is treading on dangerous ground he bauts to abolish sunday work in the post offices and in order to get some foundation toun dation to work on he has sent a circular letter to the postmasters of one hundred of the largest cities asking for suggestions aa to how sunday work may 30 stopped etc of course all good men believe that the sabbath should be observed in as general a manner as possible but at the same time all sensible men know hat a certain amount of work must be performed by somebody even on that day and the carrying and rapid handling of the mails is a work too important to be stopped at any time for any cause in fact tho efficiency of the post office department is more in need of being increased than decreased in this very matter of sunday handling of mails and if wanamaker very careful ho will raise a tempest in tho business world that will be strong en ough to sweep him out of office that cost him so much money and thore is another view of the subject that should not be lost sight of in the moro than ono hundred years of its existence no attempt has ever been made to bevo this government officially recognize any re legious denomination or sect and the precedent would be a dangerous one to establish suppose for instance that wanamaker who is a presbyterian should succeed in having all work stopped in our post offices 1 on sundays during his administration of the post office department so far all right but now suppose that in the unexpected upheaval of politics he should be succeeded by a hebrew or a seven day adventist both of chieh sects regard saturday as the sabbath day and that he should insist on having all work stopped en his sabbath then what a row we should have church and state both have functions to perform in this as well as every other country but let us keep them separate and distinct for if history teaches anything it is the utter futility of successfully uniting the two politics have this week been pushed to the wall by that one touch of nature that makes the world akin democrats and republicans have vied with each other to provide sue cor for the thousands of people made homeless by the great floods in penn sylvania washington has shown the world that however heartless she seems to be in her dealing with political and social doings she in reality has a great big human heart throbbing just now in sympathetic accord with her suffering brothers and sisters of the conemaugh valley upon whom such a terrible calamity has fallen A public meeting was held to provide organized methods of collecting money and clothing it was attended by an immense crowd and waa presided over by the president who made a strong appeal for subscriptions script ions about in cash has been raised besides an enormous quantity of blankets clothing and disinfectants disinfect ants etc everybody seemed disposed to give something poor people who were unable to give money gave a blanket or a cast off garment boot blacks and news boys handed in their sido the millionaires thousand dollar checks and the children empties the pennies out of their little banks in order to turn them over to the committee for the first half of the week nothing was talked about or seemingly thought about but the awful news from johnstown lioom had done a damage to property public and private of several millions of dollars but that was entirely forgotten in the face of the great loss of life by the pennsylvania horror already the republican acting commissioner of the general land office has begun to undo the good work of abo democratic administration he has given notice that he intends abolishing the boardie Boar dif deview and the division of contests both established under mr Clev elands administration and both recognized as being in the interests of tho homesteader and against the land grabber but as the last named class have for many years with tho exception of from 85 to 89 controlled that office the change can hardly be surprising the civil service commission is busily engaged in discovering mares nests it has just reported a large one in the new york custom house and is now in troy N Y hoping to find one m the postoffice post office next week it is to start west on a grand tour of discovery Jis covery which will embraced embr acea dozen 1 washington D 0 june |
