The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-11-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

Mr.. EDITOR:
The National Grange after session
of week in Washington has adjourned.
Toward the end Of the meeting it adopt
ed 4 resolution demanding the introduce
ton Of the parcels post on rural routes
and also OF its universal extension.
Another resolution was adopted asking
for the establishment of postal savings
banks for the benefit of farmers. These
are measures that have been recommend
ed by Postmaster General Won Meyer
and by his predecessors for twenty
years. The parcels post has long since
been in use in European and even in
Asiatic countries. If the United States
were an effete monrchy or an Cypress
ed despotism we would long since have
had the parcels post here but being
free and independent Government of
Senatorial, Congressional and other
bosses in the pay Of the interests. and
having Senator from New York, rep
resenting the Express Companies OF
which he is President. on the floor OF
the Senate, and having powerful Elk
press company lobby with its pockets
bullying with ill gotten gains ever pres
ent at the Capitol, We must be content
with our vaunted superiority in name
over the effete monarchies and despot-
isms. The recent postoffice deficit was
Establishment, spending nearly two hun
dred millions, brings the country IN
debt seventeen millions year Inc
establishment, we'll managed in bust
ness like way and doing the profitable
work that the Express company flchss
from it, would bring the Government
YEARLY enough money to build half
dozen Dreadnoughts and would at the
same time furnish all the people OF the
United States a vastly superior service
With thirty thousand rural routes, near
" all of them supplied with horse and
wagon, the small am cunt OF fifty-hve
pound trip would wipe out the deficit
The National Grange has passed a res
olution to oppose Senators who oppose
the parcels post delivery.
During the past week it has been def
initely settled that Secretary OF State
Root will transfer his activities from
the premiership of President Roose-
yelts Cabinet to. was about to say,
the leadership of the Senate. But Sen
atorial etiquette and tradition demands
that new Senators however distinguish
cd shall be seen not heard-sitting IN
modest silence. There have been re-
Gently some conspicuous recalcitrants
against this iron rule. Senator Bever-
idge made himself heard soon after he
entered the Senate. Senate La Toilette
also found it impossible to keep still
and it is possible that :be passing away
of old things and the introduction OF
new may have begun and is ringing
changes in the Senate. Senator Aldrlch
from the little state of Rhode Island
has been long called by the newspaper
men the boss of tho Senate" and he
deserves the so ubriquet although Sena'
tore Hale, o. Maine is himself some
thing of a boss. A comparatively new
Senator Crane, Of Massachusetts,, has
been influential in the counsels OF the
majority of that august body, while his
colleagues, Lodge, is looked upon as
the mouth piece of the President. 1t
cannot te otherwise than that the en-
trance Of so conspicuous and SO intel
lec.ually potent man as Root will
have its influence on the American
House Of Peers as well as salutary in
nuence in the sffairs of the country.
President elect Taft, it is said, desired
him to rema in at the head of his Cabi-
net but he will be able to assist the
administration frcm the Senate floor
and his counsel will doubtless be in
directly felt in the Cab met Chamber.
1t is rumored this morning that the
old gang in New York has gotten to-
gether to defeat Root for the Senate,
but he is SO conspicuously fit and neces
sary that the gang will pro badly not
succeed better than they did against
Gov. Hughes.
1t is said that the President has al
ready begun his editorial work on tho
magazine called "The Outlook" and that
the coming number will have an article
from his pen on tbs Awakening In China.
Doubtless the President has cotton
much information on this subject form
book, missionaries aud the public press
bnt it is questionable if he will write as
well on the subject how as he might
write after he has made study of that
country on the ground. There is no
doubt that China is awakeing but o
long and 30 profound has been her
slumber and so impervious is she, owing
to physical and Psychological condi-
tions, to modern thought that it is
doubtful if evee our grandchildren will
be able to say she 10 awake. China has
no language. her immense population
estimated by guesses land nothing more)
to be four hundred millions have no
common lingual medium Of communica-
ton. The denizens of cities and villages
twenty miles apart cannot talk to each
other. They have no expression for
patriotism, public spirit or progress
and in these respects are impervious to
the sentiments and influences which
aroused their neighbors, the Japanese