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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
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Tuesday, May 24, 1904
. The Postoflice and the People." ;
The abhorrence in which socialism
is held by the American people is in
part responsible for the fact that we
Have permitted, public" utilities to be
made the "sport of private monopo
lists. The only important public util
ity that is completely in the hands of
the national government is the postal
system, and the same foolish fear, en
couraged by the false statements and
half-truths of private interests, keeps)
us from receiving anything like the
benefits we should from our postal
system. This is not a matter of
opinion, but of demonstration; for
in Great Britain and other European
countries the postal service is as
much more complete than our own as
our present service is better now
than itwas in the days of the stage
coach.
Nowhere else is socialism more se
verely frowned upon than in Great
Britain; yet over there the postal
service includes a parcels post, the
telephone, the telegraph, the savings
bank, insurance annuity, money or
der, and other lines of business, and
it is the universal verdict that all are
well conductedand at the minimum
of expense.
An incident that illustrates the
vastdifference between our own ad-
vantages and those enjoyed by our
British friends is told by James L.
Cowles, secretary of the Postal
Progress league of New York. Mr.
.Cowles recently mailed a 1 suit case,
weighing eleven pounds three ounces,
at a New York sub-station, paying 2
"cents an ounce upon -it as first-class
matter, or $3.58. A 10-cent special
delivery stamp was added. In less
than six hours it was delivered to its
address in ew Haven, which is said
to be somewhat better time than is
usually made by express companies
for this distance. Writes , Mr.
Cowles: "Switzerland would have
carried the same case for 8 cents,
Germany for less than 10 cents,
England for 25 cents, and for 75
cents the English postoffice would
have carried this Suit case from any
station in the British Isles to any
station in New Zealand. For the
same postage paid for transportation
to New Haven our own postoffice
would take it to the furthest home on
the most remote rural route in Cali
fornia, to the Philippines or Sand
wish Islands, and after ther 1st of
June to Shanghai, China. And it
ought to be done for a much smaller
""sum. For a single cent will pay the
cost to-day of the transport of a
bushel of wheat between the two
furthest railroad terminals on our
Atlantic and our Pacific coasts."
Why do not we in this land of the
free enjoy such privileges atsuch low
cost? The dread specter of social
ism (although national y control of
public utilities is not socialism at
all), and powerful lobbies represent
ing great franchise interests unite to
block the way. Talk about a postal
savings bank and the whole banking
fraternity is up in arms, and what
Congressman wants to offend a bank
er ? f alk about a national telephone,
and from every State in the Union
will hasten the representatives of
that huge monopoly, to put their veto
on congressional action. , So of the
telegraph. And when it comes to a
parcels post there is your Uncle
Thomas Piatt, president of the
United States Express Company and
"boss" of the controlling party in
New York, with his friend and col
league, Chauncey M. Depew, pre
pared to dynamite the whole scheme
rather than that special privilege
should be affected. And on the other
hand the country merchant, who
fears the mail-order houses of the
metropolis, and declares that, if the
farmer could buy in the cities and
get a carrying rate such as the gov
ernment would give- him, the rural
store would go by the board; so he
lends his influence to the opposition.
Thus do special interests stand, in
the way of the general welfare. The
people of the United States ought to
have everything in their own hands
that belongs to the public, and they
should begin right now by adding to
the postal service every convenience
that can be attached to it. The
farmer is one of the men most di
rectly interested, and he should im
press his views upon his member of
Congress in such a way as to insure
action or the member's retirement
to private life. "!The cure for the
evils of democracy is more democ
racy," says Dr. Lyman Abbott. That
is apropos here, for there are many
ills in the postal service to-day that
would be cured if the public were
brought into closer touch and inter
est with it by vext ending its useful
ness in all proper ways. Chicago
Rural Voice.
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Cow Peas make a large yielding
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on poor or medium land, and the
roots and stubble plowed under
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productiveness of the Boil leaving
it in much better condition than
before the crop was grown.
Mammoth Yellow Soja Beans
unquestionably make the richest
ana most nutritious feed crop
, grown on the farm. Equally valu-
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or cotton seed meal for fattening
stock.
Full information about these valuable
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Write for it and Special Price
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