Cause For Rejoicing

The Kew York Tribune flnds cause for rejoicing even in the disreputable conduct ot' the St. Louis postinaster. After showing that the man who is now so roundly abused by his party has only been doing as he has been taught, it says : " We are glad that Mr. Postmaster Filley has done this thing. It needs ome such practical application of an old political rule to show its utterly inischievous tendency and injustice. It wasjust as right and fit that the St. Louis postmaster should collect contributions from his poor subordinates for the purpose of keeping up the dignity of his office as it was for hiin (and thousands like him) to levy assessments for the purely political purposes of the party in power. When he collected a tax to fit up his office and pay for the President's dinner, he did no meaner nor more illegal a thing than did Senator Harían when he assessed the Pacific Railroad Corporation $10,000 to carry the Senatorial election in lowa. It is uot more illegitirnate than any of the oppressive assessments which wei e lovied in the custom houses, postoffices and revenue offices of the republic last summer, when money was needed to carry the fall elections for the Aduiinistration. The Rt. Louis Postma9ter may be a buil in a china shop ; great is the stnashing of the crockery; whichever way Ue tumis is ruin. But the party that put him in there and set his head iu the way of infinite mischief is reapousible for th crah and the datoage."