The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-10


Chicago, Oct. 9.--westcra mail
has doubled and even quadrupled
each four years OF late, fact urged
by Western railways as reson why
they should be paid for their mail
service. The present laws require
that the pay OF railways during four
year contracts shall be based upen
the weights haailed during los days,
when the mails are weighed. A COM
mittee Of supervisors Of mail serv-
ice for western roads has asked Post
masterJGcneral Meyer to consider the
lplight Of the transportation compan-
les, and delegation has just re-
turned from ashington-hoping II
Inot hopeful. The washington mail
ris growing so Mast ths. the railroads
want the contracts made from year
to year.. not a pleasant prospect for
| the post-office officials, for weigh
ing time Is nightmare to them.
The transportation OF mails is said to
l.carn only "a per cent of the gross
Erevenues Of railways. an argument
advanced in a general protest against
I the fines now imposed for delays to
mail trains. railroad officials having
long since thrown up their hands at
| attempting to guarantee schedules.
Last year. Uncle Sam paid TO rail-
ways, east and west, sac, 3,S96,92S for
transportation of mails. For just the
equipment of that kind the mails cost
$fiG. $50. As to the reduced postage TO
England--from cents to cents-the
amount OF mail remains the same. g.
fifty pound sacks each week But the
veteran of the Chicago rostoffice, AS.
sistant Postmaster Hubbard, said OF
the change: ''As one result the al
lurements of American life will be
drawn more freely, and the result
may be an increased immigration
from the islands. There will be a
irecr exchange CT ideas and the un-
derstandlng between the two natious
viii be vastly improved.
Uncle Joe" Cannon is kept very
busy these days, II is understood,
reading accounts of the various
speeches of culogy and of attack that
are being made about him from the
pulpit and the platform. 'Sunny
Jim" Sherman's warm words of com
mendat!on have been closely followed
BY Others, not a. complimentary. The
latest Of these, by Rev. p. A. Baker,
general superintendent of the Amer
lean Anti-Saloon League, and by Ir-
vim l.. Lenroot, former speaker of
the Wisconsin assembly and now
candidate for Congress, on the Re-
publican ticket, may draw a reply
from Danville, for they do not beat
about the bush. "'The fact is that
Speaker Cannon is opposed TO all pro
gress.' said MIR. Lenroot. "His meth
cd of refusing to allow any bill
which displeased him to be reported
from committees to the House was
entirely justilable. In so doing, lie
made himself the whole thing |
made my campaign for nomination to
Congress against my opponent. Mr..
Jenkins. on the broad field of his
opposition TO the important Roosevelt
policies and his unqualified support
OF the rcactionary methods OF Speak
cr Cannon. The Roosevelt policies
are ineXtrieably interviewer with the
movement for the conservation OF
our natural resources. The adjust.
ment and fixing OF railroad rates,
satisfactorily. must of necessity, go
hand in hand with the development
of our navigable streams, and these
In turn, depend on tho prcserva-
tion of our forests Mr.. Bakers
address was made TO the opening
gathering of Rock River conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and the applause that greeted some
OF his sallies led him to continue:
"You take any church body, between
the oceans, and you say something
about Cannon's record, and you get
the same spontaneous response.
Everywhere, from ocean to ocean,
there Is a strong sentiment among
the men that they should strike down
this. the greatest barrier TO moral adj
vancement in the country. We have
dealt hard with many politicians late
ly in the Buckeye state. There Is
hardly politician that isn't relig-
lous. And a good many more are at
tending church than used to. -.
The parting jolt which Col w. II.
Bixby, chief of the engineering corps
In the Department of the Lakes gave
Ghicago-the blunt declaration that
Chicago's $5O,OOO,0OO drainage canal
is doomed to prove a failure-was due
to the amount OF lake water which
will be needed as Chicago grows. aud
its sanitary requirements increase.
''rhe Drainage Canal now requires
five per cent of the entire outflow Of
the upper. lakes. said Col Btxby, on
leaving for his new post at St. Lou