The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-11-25

ana jackson are agAin triumph Mt.
In short the Peoples / arty i, here be-
cause there is need for such a party:
it is here to stay; it is the party Of po-
litical integrity and Of progress. Let
every good man in the ranks Of either
one Of the old parties, - soon % he 10
ready to stand and fight for all the
principles Of Jefferson and Lincoln,
make haste to join the only party of
the people.
TIL Rec POINTS IN THE POsrM AsIER.
GENERALS REPORT.
The first annual report of Postmast-
er-General Gary has just been finished.
The report will be officially sent to
Congress the FIRST week in December;
but the Associated Press has sent out
an abstract IF the same. We notice
that the Associated Press report says
that the leading feature of the Post
report was his strong
advocacy Of Postal Savings Banks.
This is very gratifying to US.
Just before Congress adjourned the
Senate Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads referred Senator Buffers
Postal Savings Bank bill to the Post
master-General, and requested him to
examine the same during the summer
and return it with his recommends.
ton at the opening of the next ses-
sion Of Congress. The Postmaster.
General replied that he would take the
matter up and comply with the re-
quest. This feature of his annual re-
port is the result of his investi CATION.
The second marked feature in the
Enthusiastically report is what
he says about rural free mail delivery.
We quote the following paragraph:
"The experimental rural free deliy-
cry has been generally appreciated.
Few expenditures have conferred
greater benefits in proportion, and it
has unquestiOnably proved q potent
factor in attaining what should be
chief aim of government, the granting
of the best possible postal facilities to
the farming class"
This is also very gratifying to us,
for it was Senator Butler who intro
duced the amendment to the Postofice
Appropriation bill in the first session
of the Fifty-fourth Congress-, appro-
priating fifty thousand dollars, and d.
recting the Postmaster General to use
it in making experiments in free
rural mail delivery. The experiments
were made in the different localities
in the several States and the people
everywhere were delighted with it.
The Postmaster. General reported, how.
ever, that his experiment was not suf-
hcient to thoroughly test the matter.
Whereupon, at the next session of
Congress Senator Butler secur-
ed another appropriation of fifty
thousand dollars to continue the
experiment.. We are glad to
see that the Postmaster. General
will make favorable report. The peo-
pie of the cities, who are near to the
offices, now have free delivery, while
those in the country, who are most in
need of this service, have never had it. |
To deliver mail free to the home of ey. |
cry citizen In the United States would
cost less than one-fourth of the amount
that is appropriated each year for PEN
sions, even if the new system did not
largely increase the postal receipts, - |
it surely would.
The third prominent feature Of the
report is one that we cannot endorse.
The Postmaster General, in effect, re.
commends the passage Of q bill like the
Loud Postal Bill. 1t will be remem.
bered that this infamous measure was
passed through the House at the last
ses 'ion Of the ffty-fourth Congress-,
and that Senator Butler took a leadins |
part In defeating it in the Senate. The
eject of such bill would be to shut
out of the mails great deal of litera-
ture like Coins Financial School, and
besides it would discriminate against
small papers and the weekly press in
favor OF the large daily papers. The
postmaster. General makes his recon.
on the ground that the gov
eminent loses money BY the cheap rate
on newspapers and books like Coins
FINANCIAL School, and that it is neces.
'ary to debar them from the mails. or
rather = very high rate in order to
make the postoffice department self.
Senator Butler in. hi.
speech against the Loud Postal Rin
produced the facts and figures to show
'nat the reason that the postoffice de-
partment was not eif-sustainine wa
Tue to the outrageous prices paid the
Inc railroads for hauling the mails
Ano sne enormous rate paid for postal
'sTs' 1t ID clear to anyone that In
'end mail across the country By horse
BACK or buggy on star-routes il or
'nootd be the most expensive part Of
me mail system; Jet our government
pays about fifty million Of dollars fo,
ne whole star route service of the r..
'ion' while 1t pays over thirty million
dollars to the railroads. Besides. ve
pay over three million dollars a va,
'ent for postal cars, while the sovern.
nent could build the same postal car.
or less than half that amount. A post.
u car lasts about twenty years. Their.
ore the government pays in tventv
Ieafs sixty million dollars for thu rant
y cars that could Be built and eouipned
=. one miiiloa and . half. Here n
Vnere the leakage is; and il the rail.
DADS did not keep such = poverfu, |
oooy around Washington, this leak...l
Voald soon BE- stopped. senator m. |