The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-12-19
RURAL DELIVERY.
udge Griggs Still Leading the
Movement to Give Farmers
Their Mail at Home.

Their Mall at Tome.
Snndav's Atlanta Constitution print
II the following from it's Washington
.Orespondent, Joseph Oil:
aWill the post office department get
h. sNO,OO6 asked for free rural mail
BeIiyery?n "Why, yes; and | am inclin-
II 10 believe we will give them even
SDOre. believe they should have for
Abs purpose every dollar they can
Nightly spend"
4 Ihsd asked the question of Judge
BRIGGS, who is the Georgia member OF
she house committee on pOstotfices and
lost roads, and the answer came
promptly and positively. Not only is
fudge Griggs in favor of appropriating
II this purpose every dollar the depart
bent asks in it's estimates, but he is in
bVOr of going even farther, with the
Gea Of pushing this branch of the
postal service just as rapidly as it is
possible for it to be pushed.
Ever since he has been in congress
fudge Griggs has worked on this line.
HiS presence on the postoffice commit
fee which makes up the appropriation
pill for this branch of the government
|erVice, has placed him where he
tould do the cause great good and
here is no question that he has used
his position for just that purpose.
JUDGE GRIGGS' ACTIVITY.
A good many members have claimed
hat to them belongs the credit for the
Inauguration of free rural mail deliv-
ny, 1t is with no idea of detracting
rom anyone of these that say no man
las done more toward the practical de-
elopment of this system than the rep
sentative from the second Georgia
lStrlct' When he came here he found
OngresS had been appropriating a
mall sum each year for experiments
rural mail delivery, but that so lit
ie interest was manifested in the prac-
lcal carrying out of the system that
SVen these small sums were not entire
\ 5SonSumed. Judge Griggs represents
y uSflct IN which there is no large
ivy and few cities of any size. 1t is,
luEteVer, thickly settled agricultural
.%.uon, and being imbued with the be-
III mat rural delivery was not only
SUsSlo!e' but practical, he determined
ua w us constituents and the farmers
: VsI WI parts OF the country should
~ : all tne benefit that could possibly
,ou utrlved from the practical develop
lent Of the system.
FAVoRS LARGE APPROPRIATIONS.
ne went to work, therefore, with the
~ r, suaV IN making the appropriation
" W r rLta5 mail delivery the standard
~ I ba mo 10 Judge should be not sim
,lon ro ". !i ~ the department could get
Dan uS WIN WIN but how much it could ex-
po onS eacn year. To that end he has
Ationsa q{y fought for large appropri-
hp tho ne le found among his associates
&bis Sr SonImlttee a tendency to slight
#erv H ialCn Of the work by giving it
*eryice. ; ~ money but to develop the
#upnor,i ~ me great cities, but while
8ime in ,,is mat he has at the same
tppronrdi.sst'eo upon greatly increased
b insist to.iOGS for rural mail delivery.
|ine tb l9tT h mas been his work on this
pom the he, o ne has brought his associates
bev r 'nr committee to his view. and
hucb I q. o. believe in appropriating as
xpepj i cue "a. Department. can rightfully
vi course this does not mean
be sar ~s alce, but it does mean that
evelon nT attention shall be paid to the
,untrpp e .t OF the mail service in the
mem .nat Is paid toward its deyel-
nen' In the cities.
po o9I1AsTER GENERALS VIEWS.
! 1Y' raer General Smith in his an
q sT VporC devotes much attention to
fa2lect of rural free delivery,
po.ore the annual reports of the
bie la' yer :; general have dismissed the
" w. IN a somewhat perfunetorv