Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-15

grease in the corners or our mouths
Never! Back to Battle Creek, to corn
cob meal and Eastwood bark! HI!
waiter, bring stewed veal with dump
lngs, roast beef with brown gravy;
pork chops greasy and broiled ham!
We have killed no albatross.
THE "TYRANNY" OF RURAL CARRIERS.
A Chicago publication is worrying
itself needlessly over the tyranny Of
rural carriers, who, it AYERS, refuse to
await the arrival Of certain mail trains,
notably those on which the metropoli-
tan daily newspapers arrive, and which
it assumes means that the farmers is
OF rural mail delivery. Some of these
usurping carriers refuse to wait longer
than nine o'clock, and others have OPP
pressed the farmer by starting on their
mail delivery before the special news
paper trains have arrived, carrying the
Chicago morning papers with the pre-
vious days market reports and the
thrilling account Of fight on Elmer
aid avenue. Frequently, it is added, the
farmer misses very important letters
thru an early start by the rural car
riers.
When rural delivery was in its earliest
stages the Iowa farmers might have
been induced to believe somewhat OF
the Chicago papers contention. They
| know better now. The facts are that
the carriers have about as small OPP
portunity for exercising the tyrannical
power attributed to them as the hired
man has to sell hogs. The carrier is
controlled by the postmaster, and he
by the desires and demands of the pa
irons. The early start Of rural carriers
is on demand of their patrons The
first thing a farmer wants from rural
delivery is his market report and he
wants it early enough to sell his ctock
or order car for shipping purposes
on the day he gets 1t.
In the Chicago stock yards sales are
over and everything weighed up at II
o'clock in the forenoon. Grain markets
are closed at o'clock in the afternoon.
An examination of the railroad time
tables will show that every trunk line
from Chicago thru Iowa runs mail
trains that starting from Chicago after
dark deliver mail thruout Iowa before
daylight. These trains bring market
reports. They bring the letters mailed
during the business day in Chicago.
The Chicago morning paper must
travel from 200 to 400 miles to reach Its
Iowa subscriber. 1t reaches central
Iowa on the trunk lines anywhere from
$3.50 in the morning until noon. On
these main lines the rural route carrier
who waits for the Chicago paper gets
started between 10 o'clock and noon
on his twenty-five mile drive. The far
mers on the long end Of his route get
mail and market service that is next to
Worthless. AL ILLS lllc 4OWd AdA AllSh
has learned and is learning. He has
called at the postoffice when in town in
the afternoon and found how little, ex-
cept Chicago morning papers, the fore
noon fast mails bring into Iowa. He
wants his market report, If possible to
get it. before the hog buyer drives into
his barnyard. Like everything else he
wants his general news as early as he
can obtain it. He wants q glimpse of
his paper during his noon hour. He
has learned that the telegraph brings
the Union Stockyards as close to Mar
shalltown as they are to Chicago, that
electricity annihilates the 300 miles,
that in many instances he may have
the Chicago markets before him in
an Iowa newspaper while the mail
train carrying the Chicago morning
papers is creeping thru Illinois, and
that in almost all cases he may get a
complete news and market service
from an Iowa daily the best part of
half day before the Chicago paper
can get to him. This is why the routes
start early. 1t is also the reasons for
the large increase in circulation noted
among Iowa daily papers and the sole
reason for the desperate interference
with forenoon rural mail service by
the Chicago morning papers.
The fact is that the daylight fast
mail trains are run moro as a conven-
fence to these Chicago newspapers than
for any other reason. They bring little
else of Importance, and without de-
rogation of the Chicago newspapers
their Importance to the Iowa subscribe
er has ceased to be essentially great.
If any route in Iowa is being con-
Quoted to the disadvantage of it's pa
irons thru an early or late start by the
carrier, an easy remedy offers. The re-
ofo f>y, H. >ff