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Show I IS PROUD OF HIS ENEM- 1 IES Postmaster General Iluilcson ad-' ad-' m tB hla unpopularity. "I bollovo It f to bo true that I have morcenomles nrd, have been mdro generally de-niunccd de-niunccd than any of the others," ho nays. "It has not, liowover, robbed we of iny serenity or mind or spoiled el h'er my disposition or my appetite. Yoti bco I know who oiy enemies arc, bow I made them and why, and the reasons are satisfactory to nic." In the lint of these enemies Mr. Hurlo- f nop places the express companies, the railroads and the newspapers magazines. In his mind they arc a- bad lot and even-though It may be a fact that they all reciprocate the kind of sentiment that Mr. Burleson expresses and are s non-lovable as I the Texas politician, till the reasons for tbo. differences may bo entirely distinct. Mr. Ilurieson asserts that inn 11 In now being tfellvoicd lo six Million more people in tlie country and fixe million more tn the cities than eght ycats aro, and that thoro Is "less waste, less fraud and less ci politics now than ever before." I Mr IlurlcRon'ri pioiitl enemies n-sort n-sort that (Making over tho who llne of tho country, nftpr tlio war wu over, ho djd so for the sole purpose of foisting government owncishlp on the United States, because U was a pet hobby of his -and mil a national nation-al necessity. Students of it lie parcel post system say that In tho mattei of the carriage of smalj. packages that the oxpresn conipaulcs still have; tho moat profitable end of the bus! ncsa .while Burleson absorbed the unprofitable end. Just what- solace the "most unpopular man" ftndH tn his attempts to hold up the nftwspa- pers'ftiid magazines at tho country, and make ttiefr publishers Day unno cessarlly high rates, he does not ex plain. After all, Mr Burleson's principal unpopularity (s doubtless duo to tht, fact that ho cared more to create a surptUB In earnings for tho postofflcq, department than ho did to promote the welfaro of the thousands' df men whoso wage he sought to keep below the nctual cost of living. He failed In both Instances. - mam |