Many Of Our Best Citizens Have Con

gratulated The Dkmocrat npon the position it took lant week, favoring f ree delivery. It ia eind, at the postoffice department in Washington, that the re is not a city in the country that did not consider it a great boon to secure free delivery when it was offered. Ann Arbor has the honor (?) to be the first city in the United States whioh has shown a disposition to reject auoh an accommoda tion. l'hink of it! full-grown men objecting to have the government deliver mail to their neigbbors, who desire it so delvered ! If A wants to gat his mail at the office, all he has got to do is to notify the pos tinaster to that effect, but why ghould he object to having the govern ment, who is willing to do it, deliver B his mail at hii residencie, if B so desires it? The postoffice department was created to erve the wants of the people, not to build up any man's business, or compel people to walk by any man's atore. The oommon counoil should act in this matter, and aak the postmastergenoral to giye us free delivery at once. We hope the city fathers will not let Ann Arbor be made to appear ridiculous by rejecting this boon.