Show ADDING INJURY TO INSULT Because postmen have ha scrupulously kept out of politics In the past the government pays them about half hulf what the they earn When they and their friends point out that their wages wag are pitifully Inadequate inadequate inadequate in in- adequate to their needs the they are given l lan an advance of oC a few dollars a year eur eurAnd And now when a n presidential campaign campaign cam cam- Is on the they are arc sternly forbidden to take nay any part in politics whatever No more arrogant no more un un- American order than this has ever eyer been Issued IJ by a department official like cabinet officers are citizens citi zens tens and presumably have the right of citizens to vote according to their own Interests The postmaster general from Crom whose office this Impudent order onier was issued I Is the busiest politician In the cab cab- inet He lIe has just return returned cd from San Francisco where he worked eighteen hours a da day In the Interests of a n. can can- candidate for the Democratic for the presidency His ca candidate in incidentally i in- in was defeated He ne has been since his Incumbency of ot his office In politics constantly and unless he lie experiences an nn amazing change of heart he will be In ht politics through the entire campaign Yet this gentleman who Is as us much an employee of ot the postoffice department department department depart depart- ment as ll l any letter carrier currier brazenly forbids any men un under er him to engage in politics And Ami every letter carrier currIer knows that lint a violation of this order Is extremely like likely to cost him his job Of or course COUlse if the policy polley of the administration administration ad mI ministration and of ot Congress toward rd the postmen is continued most of them will quit their places an anyway wa so the order Is not as much of ot a hardship as asIt asit asit it looks It Is nevertheless an nn unwarranted meddling with the rights of or a citizen who unable to get Justice from rom one administration naturally desires to do doall doall doall all he can to put a n more efficient administration administration ad all ministration In office If postmen In the past had been as ns active In politics as cabinet officers they would woul not now need to ask outside outside out out- side help to ret get et them living wages from the gov government go |