Show 4 boso poso office reform we know but bitile little about tile tiie the 1 astr active ability of the present head of the post office department part ment but if he is fit for his pla pia place placere cehe he will certainly recommend to congress great alt alf itera cera eions in tile he laws now regulating his de department A comparison between the post office system ok 0 england and that 0 of f the united stales states is a commentary on do our system which with lile the boasts of enlightenment and practical character of our government ern ment very few would suspect to bo be possible will if ii bo be believed that while in great britain for the fourbears four years 1853 64 4 55 and 56 the ilum number of letters sent through its post office wits wils was nearly eighteen thousand millions the whole number dumber sent through the post office in the united state for sixty seven years from 1789 to 1856 G was less than seventeen thousand millions 1 that is jn in great britain there were sent eni erfour years more than there were sent pent in a this fhi country in sixty saven seven years yet ye t aly number of oar our people is 1 upa ii nearly arly equal to that of great britain and has lial bein bean been sefor so ifor th the last four years tile the business 0 of pur ou people so 0 o immense compares faor favorably ably ti wah alth that of while lil ill in the die latter country not half the people call can read ana ali all write yet in ju great britain they send yearly through the mails malls jina five hundred millions of leters le lers while in the ta united Stat states esthere there aro are only abo about pt one hundred and cind thirty millions so much for the accommodation acco N tow low let us tig glau giau glance ca at the receipts and expend expenditures atres in 1856 MG the receipts of the british post offices office were wera and tb ohp expenditures leaving in a net rift revenue pt ord in the tha same year the receipts of the united e 4 sates suites po post st ces pes and tile the expenditures 10 net loss pys difference betwee between i tl the i british and ar american systems eteve eleven n ii million illions ahr ahrea hundred housand hp usand dollars in favor of the british Bri british tish fish system in post poet offic ethe ruie nila is inflexible t that hat every very e person emp employed loyed loyek hali phal have his hii qualifications ascertained by in inmost most instances a leid aigid examination ion lon N wales yaves ands and salaries larie s are ar e quite mo moderate but there are no dismissals from cause while every employee e is hed to the feit accountability count ability after years of faithful are allowed to retire on a pension ahia is graduated by fhe length of the lerm term they rny may bave have have bava served AJI ajl all ohp are while in the discharge of duty so injured as to be incapable of further r per ser vice are also pensioned jn a the united states poi post gece office department with aadu afew a few exceptions fust just as in all the th e other otier departments part ments of our government appointments are made aad and employments given with escarc scarcely eig ely ate are a reference ference cejp to the qualifications of the incumbent hardly anything k i ever taken into the account but the degree in wilch which the tle person applying f for or office has been an active and useful pant part partisan ican izan al all that we read with disgust and indig indignation natios in in the histories of the favoritism of cot cor corrupt burts couris courts is exceeded by ahat happens auevery at every chana chane change g orad of administration in our government what milt the supple and servile nor not courtier tiem tier is to a profligate prince hat that t thing often the successful office hunter henter is to the ape app appointing i power in the tates states tile pra practice atice under the the ibe shir shit sh hing ting tina f 0 our government i is such as t to 0 discourage men really lioi dionest Lest and capable from taking office it operates aa as a premium honesty incapacity and neglect of duty thee TheT ilian irian most bitted fitted for a particular office who when lie he his has been put pu into tinto it and kept there therb just ion lon on enough to have cave be lie cama comme corns perfectly familiar icil fohan its duties 13 instantly t thrust t aside to 0 ma make I 1 te way e lher for fot thelast man who i 0 ought to ha be put pat into such aW office or for some om e mail man who when li he his has become most useful in the ibe office offic is thrust aside ilke like Tike haip bis his predecessor ede of c counse course such a system fully accounts for or the shameful ha efu 1 way in in W which bich blob fhe the he public business of thia thy country 16 done it it ts is d a ay system tem that almost avowedly is not intended for fhy thy the tha d due dispatch of that business betit but buo it i is ons one that almost avowedly is carried out to feed clothe and enrick enrich hungry partisans parti patti zang at the public expense it is a system Ls teni tevi which will wilt either comb come tomi to tib tin ent end with the 1 I crash institutions this general of our or if nation means to lo perpetuate itself in vigor vi vior P ar will by and an bye bya be bg adra torn up by ky the tha th roots as a disgrace to any people with claims to h a better average serse sense wisdom and honesty ihan than govern a colony of thieves and swindlers lets lers the de dead ad letter arrangement tn in oui our post office department departs ent js is hi highly ehly objectionable it shows a hiess fiess of private interests int eresto and tile the feelings of individuals that stamps it with so rile thing athing like inhumanity it cerla ceria certainly itil works much iU justie injustice and wrong the letters that fall oi or miscarry c r y ought fo be froim promptly aly returned lo 10 the office iri iti n wh which 1 b ti they ley efte were mailed in order for delivery to 0 the writer in the united staves states wa we have abig a higher hei bei postage than in great britain accommodate onty one fourth of tle the people and lose near near three id millions illions of df dollars great britain has a lower rate accommodates commo dates T four our times eimes tiie tile the rl umber number and alid makes over eight millions ji yearly arly Js Is not lk such a a contrast fl s tas tab a shameful ha m one who will move ill in a form of the department st lobis loui herald harald nov 22 to |