An Outrageous Act

! A big kick at Aun Arhor beoausti the Wetteru Union telegraph oftlce is run on the ohe man principie, and when the one i m.iii goes out tin; office s herroetlcally . M'.iUd. The operator Isn't to blame l)iit . the coinpany is.- Evenlng News. Ves, the ciiinpany has just sliown the doven loot again by WTCakiug vengeance ! on the iinlucky operator in laying him olí'. It knows the public rights and aeeommodations have been disregarded and trumpled under foot, and it noiv is beginning to feel ils displeasure. It amarts under the [ndignant pretest nnw being potten np liere, and in a puerüe spirit of animosity niakes an innocent man to su lier. Supt. Coibett, of Detroit, to whoin tli is actlon is due, claims that ufter the change in hours was made, the public should not have been informed of it but lelt to find it out by expeiïence. Just as thougb a man coming down town after 8 in the evening and limling the ofllce closed, would feel any better about it because he had not been informed. Wasit notenoiigh to depri 7e their supporters of the service due Ibem, and not subject tlitin to turtlici' iucouvenience because proper notiee liad not been given 'i The editor of The COOBIKB having a lelcgiani to send Monday night of last week, in awaiting a reply, had occasion to enqulre the hours. He thus ascertaineil the change, and finding a considerablc many others were bcing discominoded every day by the crippling of the service in discharging the operator's assistant, the editorial in our last issue was wriltcn, entirely on our own responsibilIty, Now, a few words in regard to the action of the Western Union towards Mr. Pulciphcr. For 16 years he has unremmittingly toiled for the interests of the company, without vacations and with such assiduity as greatly to impair lus health. Three times new telepraph couipanies have opened oftices in Ann Arbor and despite of tempting induceinents olt'ered he has stood laitüful lo the company. Twice the operators of the Western Union all over the countiy havo found t iinpossible longer to submit to the exactions of the griuding monopoly and have struck for better pay and shorter time of work. But Mr. Puldpher re" mained at his post every time. Every one who has ever done business at the telegraph office has liked hiui, because lie was quiet, gentlemauly, obliging and courteous. Yet all tliis recoi il, clean in every way, is now for naught in the eyes of the Western Union, shnply for the reason that an oflieious little wouhl-be autocrat has concciveil a gnulge against him. Ann Arbor takes an inttrcft in Mr. Pülcipher, and a sharp renionstrance is beingjrotten up, notonly in hisbehalf. bnt also for its own riglits, vvhicli have been disregarded. If the head management in New York is going to allow such acts of injustioe to be dooe, t will not be long in fiuding the government of the United States establishing a postal unión run by government officers for the benetit of the people, and not solelj' to pile up dividends for a fjw. With such treatnient of its patrom and employés the sooiier we clean t out the bettor.