The daily tribune., 1907-12-18
PARCELS POST OPPOSED.

Manufacturer association passed
set Of resolutions last week against
the proposed amendment of the postal
regulations to permit the carrying
Of much heavier packages at reduced
rates through the mails they fired
another gun in the campaign that the
Manufacturers association Is now
waging to encourage patr onage OF
home industry by Colorado and West
ern people and to prevent further en-
croachment by the large Eastern mail
order houses on the legitimate bust.
ness of the small merchants of the
Rocky mountain region.
The harm that can be done to the
business men in the small cities and
towns of the West through the pro.
posed changes in the postal laws is
immeasureable and every Colorado
citizen who wants to soc his or her
state grow and prosper should protest
against the threatened danger and
emphasize their protests to their rep
resentatives In congress before whom
agents of the mail order houses will
soon appear in organized effort to
make Uncle Sam an instrument in
the ruin of hundreds of thousands of
small dealers throughout the entire
country.
The reason that the Colorado Man
ufaoturers' association is against the
mail order houses. and therefore
against more liberal parcels post,
Ia that the mail order houses take
Colorado earned money and Western
earned money out Of the West and
never send 1t back. The members of
the association are pledged to keep
Colorado dollars at home and will
fight tooth and toe nail any PROPOSE.
tion that draws Western money away
from the West without proper return.
Every dollar that is In the West today
is needed here to further develop the
states vast resources aud to further
build up its magnificent industries.
A dollar spent with an Eastern
mail order house will never do the
West any moro good and the tempta.
tiou to spend dollar with these over
grown mercantile establishments who
do their soliciting with highly
colored catalogue would be made
greater were the privileges Of broad
or parcels post extended to them.
The express companies of the country
have things much their own way aud
have numerous faults, but the deeper
evil of the mail order house should
not be over looked in attacking the
express companies. The public should
not jump from the frying pan into the
hre by throwing down the bars for
such q parcels post rs the mail order
houses are seeking. Regulate the
express companies but kill the at.
tempt to make freight trains out of
the governments mail cars and to eat
mp the country's revenues.
Another thing that the Colorado
Manufacturers association IL deter
mined to prevent In the West is the
sale Of convict made goods. There is
law against the sale of such goods
In Colorado unless the goods are
marked convict made but violations
are being reported to the association
and thcy will bc rigidly investigated.
1t is very we'll to employ the inmates
Of penal institutions at some profit.
able labor to assist Ia their maintain.
ance and to discourage idleness, but
when the product Of such labor comes
IN open competition with the output
OF the factories owned by citizens Of
the state and tends to take the bread
out of the mouths Of the froe work.
ingman, II 10 time that vigorous
measures wore passed. and enforced
10 kcep such merchandise out Of
the market