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Show COURTS MUST DECIDE. Clarence II. Mackay, provident of the Postal Ti'losraph anil Cable company; William Dcgsm, secretary, and W. V. 'Cook, general counsel, liavo been removed re-moved by Postmaster General Burleson, who has appointed A. '. Adams, president pres-ident of the Kansas City Home Tele-phono Tele-phono company and member of tlio government gov-ernment general telephone and telegraph operating board, to take charge of tlio eutiro Postal system. It is asserted that "the order was issued on tlio ground that Mr. Mackay and his assistants had refused re-fused to follow instructions and had 'made efforts to embarrass and discredit government control. Another charge is to the effect that tiie new wage schedule sched-ule and the oight-liour day were not immediately put into effect. The company officials, who'have been fighting against amalgamation with the" Western Union, assert that the explanation expla-nation of the postoffice department is ' mero pretense and Secretary Degan do- (dares "we shall not surrender or aban-fiou aban-fiou our fight against Burleson's usurpation." usur-pation." Most people believe that tho taking over of the telegraph, telephone and cable lines after the wax luul virtually vir-tually closed was a high-handed outrage. Explanations heretofore made by Post-. Post-. master General Burleson have only tended to confirm this view. President Mackay was perfectly right when he invoked in-voked tho law to prevent tho seizure if possible, and ho is right in again seeking seek-ing the courts to protect his property : and individual rights. The . American peoples' aro against government ownership owner-ship or control of tho railroad systems and wire lines and the return of all such commandeered properties has been demanded, we believe, by the great majority. ma-jority. It is apparent, however, that the administration ad-ministration has lio intention of letting go. Otherwise the postmaster general would not be so perniciously active. As a state of war still exists it may be that Mr. Mackay 's hands will bo tied for tho time being. But peace, must como in tho course of a few months, and then the Postal Telegraph and Cable company will have its day in court an-, hampered by war legislation. In the meantime Postmaster General Burleson would do well to turn his attention to ' expediting the transmission of the mails both at home and oversea i. |