The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-11-06

country towns. The Farmers Alliance,
Patrons of Husbandry and other Orders
are canvassiug the matter. Letters are
being written to Congressman in favor of
the project and petitions to Congress for
Tree delivery are being circulated in
many parts OF the country. Farmers
assert that daily mail delivery at their
door Will add perceptibly to the money
value OF their farms and will be worth
still more because it will keep them in
touch with the markets and the outside
world and rob farm life of its isolation
and monotony. Farmers are writing to
the agricultural press that this conven-
ience would enable them generally to
take daily papers rs well as to subscribe
for local papers more literally.
In the American Agricuturist for No.
vember Postmaster General Wauamakcr
states definitely for the first time that cx-
perimcnts made by the postofficc depart
ment for free delivery in the farming dis
tricts show that the increase of revenue
mose than pays all the increased expcns ses
lieVes bat p:iycrsal- free -delixesy
~ therefore, be self. sustaining
y uTtlClc ulSO contains tnlS
staten MT of the CASE
When town grows to 10000 popu.
lation and puts down footwalks, and
puts up the numbers of the houses, the
postoiiice department is authorized by
Act of Congress to establish carrier SER
vice to deliver mails at tue doors Of the
houses and offices, as the town increases
postal stations arc established, and thus
the poStoliicc service keeps pace with the
growth Of the town. While all this
p' stoilicc work is going on at the thickly
populated points. farmers, qua'rymcn,
blacksmiths, milcrs and artisans, all
paying regulation rates of postage, are
left to get their mail as best they can
from the postoiticc in the village or at
the railroad station. In hamlet of one
hundred houses perhaps sixty persons
from the district and the vicinity make a
daily pilgrimage of a distance of one
block to two miles from home to the post
Office to find out whether there is any
mail or not, and hundred or more per
sons within the circle of the Office do not
find it convenient to so to the postoflicc
oftcncr than once q week One hun
drcd or more persons each day, in all
wcathcrs, arc making trips to the post
Office, often at great personal inconvcn-
len, c and disc mfOrt, when single car
ricr could once or twice daily IN Ike the
round of the village and deliver the mail
and save the hundred unnecessary daily
tramps, collecting the same time ON
boxes located at the street corners the
mail to be forwarded. A newspaper
brought every day TO the door of the far
mcr or work m IN who has no one to 60
to the postoilicc would find thankful
subscriber and light new lamp in the
household. True enough the village or
crossroads inhabitant or dwcllcr on the
farm chooses his home for his family, and
might live in the city where gas and
water and mails arc brought to his door;
llbut when the people everywhere pay
the same rate OF postage, why should
|kQnRI baSe mail facilities de MED
stOeOellIl Is itsfaif't 70 fufaIF Id.
calities to refuse postal service equal to
that provided for cities? Is it not re-
reflection on the intelligence and aspira-
tions of the farmer and artisan to ignore
his need Of convcniences of correspondence
and supplies of newspapers and maga-
zines? Does it not rctard The settlement
of country districts to neglect TO provide
in some form the means for daily inter
course with the rest OF the worldl
II
In Oklahoma the Alliance is doing
fairly we'll. The condition of the coun-
try and many other matters have hereto
fore retarded the growth of the oder,
but by persistent work the brethren have
placed it on more sure footing and an
increased membership may be expected
-, flo i,np,n1i, NJ f,f no -,
has received no aid from national sneak
ers, and has really made itself what it is
There is no division in the ranks and the
brethren are encouraged at the prospc ct.
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The reports from all over South Caro-
lima disclose q continued healthy growth
of the Order The brethren of thu
State are firmly united and are making q
gallant fight for the principles of the AL
lance. South Carolina was the first
State to hold its election this year, and
eveay member of the Order remembers
with pride how nobly it stood by the de-
mands of the Alliance, and in spite of
desperate opposition unanimously adop.
ted the Ocaia platform. This act set the
example which all the other States have
so far followed Its State officers are
conservative and fearless and able to de
fend the doctrines of the Order against
oil comers. The State organ is ably and
intelligently managed. and is supplement
ted in its good wark by many excellent
county papers. South Carolina can be
trusted to take good care of itself.
4 \ II
National Lecturer Willets in pursuance
to proclamation of President Polk, or
ganized the State Alliance of Washing
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