The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-11-28
MAIL QUESTIONS
CHANGERS WANT CHEAP PAPER
POSTAGE AND PARCELS POST.
TWO COMMITTEES REPORT
Next Convention Goes to Hartford,
ccnn.-strongly Indorse Good Roads
Movement = Want Automatic
Bells at Railroad
CROSSINGS.

Movement : Want Automatic
Bells at Railroad
Crossings.
| Denver.-At the session Of the Ma
| tional Grange Wednesday the following
| resolution, introduced by W. F. Hill OF
\ Pennsylvania, was adopted:
Whereas, The Postmaster Genera,
has recommended an increase In the
second-class mail matter rate from one
| cent per pound to four or five cents
| per pound, thus increasing the cost OF
| newspapers and all publications of the
| eecond-class, and,
| whereas. Under an act of Congress.
| approved June 2, 1906, special joint
commission of Congress, consisting OF
three Senators and three members OF
! the House of Representatives. was APP
pointed to investigate, consider and re-
port by bill or otherwise to Congress
its findings and recommendations re
| garding the second, class of mail mat
ter and.
| Whereas. Said commission Is to
hold its final session before submitting
| its report to Congress in the city of
Washington, d. C, November 26th.
1906;
"Resolved. That the legislative COM
mittee be. and the same hereby is, In
|
said hearing that the Grange is OPP
posed to the Increase in the second
class mail rate"
| On special order of business Hart
| ford, Conn.,, was selected by the delo.
| gates as the location for the next con.
| vention of the National Grange.
Oliver Wilson OF Illinois, chairman OF
the good roads committee, submitted a
strong report, in which he pointed out
1 L. tutl -
| reads are to the United States. He esti-
mated that the people OF this country
lose $500,000.000 a year on account o:
the execrable condition of the roads
over which the agricultural products of
| the country have to he hauled In order
to reach the markets
| The following resolution was passed:
| Resolved, That the National Grange
demands the improvement of our public
highways by the employment of such
methods and materials as may be
ous local conditions.
Resolved. That we favor generous
appropriation by the federal govern
ment for this purpose"
A resolution was passed asking that
railroad companies be required to
establish automatic bells and keep
them in repair at all crossings in rural
districts, and that important crossings
be guarded by fiagmen or gates.
c. b. Kegley, chairman OF the spe
cial committee on parcels post. sub
mitted the following report, which was
at once adopted:
your committee on parcels post, OF
which have the honor to be chairman,
respectfully submits that all the recon.
mendations made by the worthy mas
ter in his address regarding parcels
post, should receive your unqualified
Endorsement. 1t Is the unanimous opln
ion Of the committee that a campaign
vigorously prosecuted along the lines
OF these recommendations is the only
plan we can recommend as giving any
prospect for the early establishment o'
parcels post.
I'VE cannot too strongly emphasize
the Importance Of not Understanding
the power OF the opposition. The great
express companies will furnish large
campaign fund and with their highly
organized systems OF agencies reaching
into every village In the country hav'
ing railroad connection, and with their
paid representatives in the United
States Senate and House of Represen-
tstives, are in themselves an enemy
which will require constant and deter.
mined effort to over come. They will
have the support of the railroads, thus
making of our monopolistic enemies
alone n tremendous opposition.
UNFORTUNATELY this is not all the
opposition we will have to meet. The
National Association of Retail Drug.
gists have organized vigorous cam
raign of opposition. and during the last
political campaign systematically pur.
sued the policy OF questioning candi.
J.t< Co., w., rrftfI t,,ta nj
securing pledges to vote against all
parcels post legislation. IL elected. The
| National Association OF Retail Hard
ware Dealers are conducting a similar
campaign and we're equally active In
securing pledges from congressional
candidates. Other commercial bodies
are aggressiyely active in the same
way. Rural merchants In all sections
OF the country. and the wholesale mer-
chants, and the commercial travellers
doing business with them, are strong
In their opposition.
How mistaken this opposition on
tke part of the retail merchant is has
been well shown by the worthy master.
ITO an opposition thus powerful.
supported by an unlinited campaign
fund and having its forces coordinated
and directed by the ablest lawyers and
experts that money can secure, we
must offer the solid front of the farm
ers Of the entire country. supported by
every other friend of postal reform.
We must match expert with expert and
our advisers and counsel must be sec
ond in ability to none that the enemy
can secure. The policy that was so
successful in the denatured alcohol
campaign must be our policy in this
campaign for parcels post.
I'VE believe that TO attempt to win
on any less broad lines would be folly.
but we are strong in the belief that we
can win a glorious success II such q
plan is adopted"