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Laurens, S. C.
Southeastern Life Insurance Co.
Greenville, S. C.
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CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON
TALKS PARCEL POST
Gives Iiis Views to a Constituent who
had Written hlin About the Pending
Hill.
Washington, March 23.?Represent
ative Johnson has been receiving a
number of letters protesting against
? the enactment of the limited parcels
post bill, which is now pending in
Congress. Mr. Johnson is strongly
in favor of a much more extensive
parcels post system than that which
is now proposed, which applies only
within the radius of iura! free deliv
ery routes, and does not hesitate to
express his views on the subject.
To one of his constituents who had
asked him to oppose the parcels post
because it was feared that It would
injure the small merchants in com
paratively rural sections, Mr. Johnson
last night wrote as follows:
i "My Dear Sir :
"I have your very interesting letter
j protesting against the passage of the
j parcels post bill. I always deal In
i perfect can?or with everybody. I do
not agree with you. I am heartily In
favor of the parcels post. If the rail
i roads and the express companies were
to reduce their rates, do you think It
would Injure you or any other mer
chant In your country? Would not
you. and all the other mrehants of
jyour county and all the people be
I benefited by the reduction of freight
and express rates? Did it ever occur
to you that the United States is the
only civilized country in the world
where there is no cheap and proper
method of transporting packages
weishing less than 100 pounds? The
railroads will not accept packages for
shipment that weigh less than 100
pounds, and if they do accept pack
ages of less weight, they nevertheless
charge for 100 pounds. This gives the
j express companies a monopoly of all
packages weighing less than 100
pounds. There Is one slight limita
tion. The United States permits
packages weighing not exceeding four
pounds to go through the malls at the
irate of 16 cents per pound, or $320
per ton. Did you ever try to think
what influence was powerful enough
to bring about such a monstrus or
der of things? The average freight
rate In this country is $1.90 per ton,
and the average express rate $27.Ol.
This makes the average for trans
porting express 14.53 to 1. Taking
ten countries of the old world, the
average express rate is 5.23 to 1.
Those foreign countries not only have
the benefit of an express rate in
comparably lower than our express
rate, but they also have the parcels
post for the transportation of small
packages.
Retail Merchants Safe.
"Right here is a very good. place
to disabuse your mind of the appre
hension that the parcels post would
drive the retail merchants out of bus
iness. In countries having the par
cels post the small towns have not
dried up. the grass is not growing in
the streets, and the merchants have
not closed their doors, nor gone into
bankruptcy. These merchants are do
ing business successfully, although
they are handicapped, as you would
think, by the existence of a parcels
post, and also by very cheap express
rates. For instance, the express ra?es
in Germany average $3.SO per ton, as
compared with the average charge in
the United States of $27.01 per ton.
In countries having the parcels post
the mail order houses not only have
not driven the retail merchants out
of business, but the mail ordo.' houses
themselves have not developed to
anything like the same oxr.uit they
have in the United States. If the
mail order houses have grown to
greater proportion in the L'nltod
States without a parcels post than
they have in foreign countries with
j the parcels post, it follow.-, that the
, parcels post system is not the one
thing needed to build them up. 1 do
not think the adoption of the nnrcels
post would increase the business of
the mail order houses. I do not 'ulnk
that people make anything by buying
goods away from home. Taking in
to consideration quality, quantity,
price, delivery, etc., a person can
ordinarily do Just as well, or better,
by purchasing from his home mer
chants. Hut notwithstanding this
fact, there has always been an ele
ment of our population who believe
in ordering goods. There is an ele
ment of our population that believe
In It now, and If the parcels post
were adopted that elemont would not
be materially Increased. The mall
order houses have little interest in a
parcels post. I think they are per
fectly satisfied with present condl
Hons. At any rate, they are doing
marvelously well.
Small Freight Shipments.
"We need In this country a syatem
of transportation which will take care
of freight In small quantities. The
high cost of living has become a se
rious and burning question to people
of moderate means In towns and cit
ies. Vegetables enough to make a
dinner for a small family cost 50 or
75 cents or $1. while thousands and
hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of those vegetables are going
to waste In the country. If the farm
er could sell these things for one
third of what they now cost the man
in the city, he would find it exceeding
ly profitable?and yet the reduced cost
would bo a blessing to the poor man
In the city. But these things cannot
be until we get some system of trans
portation for small packages that will
bring the producers and the con\
Burners Closer together. If we had a
parcels post it would be utilized for
carrying things to eat from country
to towns and cities. That would be
a blessing to the producers of those
things and to the consumers as well.
This matter of providing a system
of transportation for small packages,
which will bring the producers and
consumers of this country closer to
gether to the great benellt of bo'.h,
Is too broad and too deep and \oo im
portant to be longer postponed, while
the express companies, by exorbitant
rates, are reaping a golden harvest.
In 1S98 the Adams Express company
declared a s'.ock dividend of 100 pet
cent, and in 1907 they declared anoth
er one of 200 per cent. In 1910 the
Wells-Fargo Express company paid
an extra cash dividend of 30 per cent
and a stock dividend of 300 per cent.
Economic Movement.
"We should not perirut the fear of
losing a few dollars worth of trade
to cause us to oppose a great econo
mic movement in the Interest of man
kind. I remember well 30 years ago
there were some merchants at Lau
rens who feared that if tho railroads
were to establish stations over the
county, it would injure their trade.
The railroads completed and they es
tablished stations at Waterloo. Cross
Hill, Mountvllle, Gray Court, Owlngs,
Ora, a Lanford and Enoree. Prosper
ous little villages grew up at all these
places and stores were opened In
these towns. Yet business activities
grew, and the merchants of Laurens
went on doing more business than
ever before. There was a time in the
history of South Carolina when mer
chandise was hauled In wagons from
Charleston to the up-country. The
building of railroads changed that
condition. Men who had before that
time made their livllhood by hauling
goods were not injured: there were
other business activities to command
! their attention, and they, in common
I with all of the people, were benefited
I by the coming of the railroad^
j There are as many men making a liv
ing now draying goods as there were
j before, but they are draying them
? from the depot to the stores and
from the stores to the consumers' res
idences and not taking long trips to
Charleston. Men who raised stock
thought that the coming of the rail
roads would injure their business be
cause not so many horses would be
needed, but their fears were without
foundation. The coming of the rail
roads multiplied business activities in
all lines, and the people needed more
horses than they ever had before,
though there were slight changes in
conditions as to the manner in which
the horses were used.
Only tine Step.
"Unfortunately, my friend, the bi!l
that Is pending in congress is no: a
parcels post bill. It is only a step in
that direction. It reduces tho rate
on parcels from 16 cents a pouuo to
12 cents a pound, or from ? a ton
to $210 a ton. It does not amount
to anything. No commodity will I oar
that kind of a charge for transporta
tion. This bill simply provides that
merchants living in a town where a
rural route starts may mail a pack
age to any person who lives on .the
I route, and any person living on the
route may mail a package back to
tho postolllce from which tho rural
route emanates. That's all. The
farmer cannot send a package be
yond the place where the route stops,
nor can any person from another
place send him a package. The nail
order houses are not In it. The/ ?re
not concerned about it. and cannot
use It. The bill will simple permit
merchants in small towns to send
packages out on rural routes, and will
permit patrons of the rural routes to
send packages to their postofflce
towns. A more extensive system is
Inevitable within the next few years.
Working By Zones.
"I have said In this letter that I
am heartily In favor of the parcels
i ost. But I am not In favor of trans
porting a package from New York to
San Francisco for the samo postago
that I would transport it from New
York to Jersey City. The rate ought
to be made low within zones of 100,
300 or 500 miles, and increased as the
distance increases. Thre is no more
reason why the United State?, If It
adopts the parcels post, should trans
port a package from your postofflce
to San Francisco for the same price
that It would transport It from your
postofflce to Clinton, than thero Is
for you to carry a drummer from
your place to Charleston for the same
price that you would carry him from
your place to Gray Court.
"When you want anything, write
me. Whenever you desire to express
your views upon public questions, I
shall be glad to hear from you."?The
Spartanburg Herald.
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FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Take notice that on the 20th d.i..- of
j April, wo will renderd a final UC
' count of our acts and doings :>s F.X
I pcutors of the estate of J. Ross Dorrou
j Deceased in the otlice of the Judge of
? Probate of Laurens county, at 1'. o -
j clock, a. in., and on the same day will
I apply for a final discharge from our
; trust as Administrators,
j Any persons indebted to said estate
are notified and required to make pay
j tnent on that date; and all persons
! having claims against said estate will
; present them on or before said dato,
duly proven or be forever barred.
S. IT. Dorroh,
J. B. Owlngs.
Administrators.
March 20. 1'.' 113.-1 mo._
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FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Take notice that on the 15th day of
April, I will render a linal account
of my acts and doings as Admin
istrator of the estate of T. R. Simpson,
j deceased, in the office of the Judge of
I I'robato of Laurens county, at 11 o'
clock, a. in., and on the same day will
apply for a final discharge from my
trust as Administrator.
Any persons indebted to said estate
are notified and required to make pay
ment on that date; and all persons
having claims against said estate will
present them on or before said dato
duly proven, or be forever barred.
I). R. Simpson.
Administrator.
March 13. 1012.?1 Mo.
NOTICE.
Executors, Administrators, Trustees
and Guardians are reminded that the
period for filing their annual returns
commences on the first day of Janu
ary every year.
O. G. Thompson,
Nov. 20. 1911.?tf. Judge of Probate.
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