Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-09

packages OIL IOuTun-claSS mdltef OIlS-
mating on rural route or at the dis
tributing post Office for delivery by
rural carriers. 1t would seem only
proper that such an experiment
should be tried in order to demon
strate the practicability of the prop
osition, especially as the Postmaster
General estimates that the revenue
derived from the opeation of such a
system Oh all the rural routes would
amount to many million dollars.
Education.
The share that the National Gov
ernment should take in the broad
work Of education has not received
the attention and the care it rightly
deserves. The immediate response
bility for the support and improve
ment of our educational systems and
institutions rests and should always
rest with the people of the several
States acting through their state and
local governments, but the Nation
has an opportunity in education work
which must not be lost and a duty
which should no longer be neglected.
With the limited means hitherto
provided, the Bureau of Education
has rendered efficient service, but the
Congress has neglected to adequately
supply the bureau with means to meet
the educational growth of the coun-
try. The appropriations for the gen
eral work of the bureau. out side edu-
cation in Alaska, for the year 1909
are but $S7,500-an amount less than
they were ten years ago, and some OF
the important items in these appro-
priations are less than they were
thirty years ago. 1t is an inexcusable
waste of public money to appropri-
ate an amount which is so made
ouate as to make it impossible prop
erly to do the work authorized, and
it is unfair to the great educational
interests of the country to deprive
them of the value of the results which
can be obtained by proper approprl-
atoms.
Census.
I strongly urge that the request OF
the Director of the Census in connee-
ton with the decennial work so soon
to be begun, be complied with and
that the appointments to the census
force be placed under the civil ser
vice law, waving the geographical
requirements as requested by the Di-
rector Of the Census. The supervisors
and enumerators should not be APP
pointed under the civil service law,
for the reasons given by the Director.
I commend to the Congress the care
full consideration of the admirable re-
port of the Director of the Census,
and trust that his accommodations
will be adopted and immediate action
thereon taken.
Soldiers Home.
All Soldiers Homes should be plac-
ed under the complete jurisdiction
and control of the War Department.
Independent Bureaus and Commis-
~ ~ sions.
Economy and sound business policy
require that all existing independent
bureaus and commissions should be
placed under the juridiction of ap-
propriate executive departments. 1t
is unwise from every standpoint, and
results only in mischief, to have any
executive work done save by the
purely executive bodies, under the
control of the President; and each
such executive body should be under
the immediate supervision of Cabi-
net Minister.
Statehood,
I advocate the immediate admis-
sion of New Mexico and Arizona as
States. This should be done at the
present session of the Congress. The
people of the two Territories have
made it evident by their votes that
they will not come in as one State.
The only alternative is to admit them
as two. and l trust that this will be
done without delay.
Interstate Fisheries.
I call the attention of the Con-
gress to the Importance of the prob
lem of the fisheries in the interstate
waters. On the Great Lakes we arc
now. under the very wise treaty OF
April 18th, of this year. endeavoring
to come to an international agree
ment for the preservation and salts
factory use of the fisheries of these
waters can not otherwise be achieved.
Lake Erie, for example, has the rich
est fresh water fisheries in the world;
but it is now controlled bv the
statutes of two Nations. four States,
and one Province, and in this Prov
ince by different ordinances in diff
ferent counties. AL these political
divisions work at cross purposes, and
in no case they achieve protection to
the fisheries, on the one hand, and
justice to the localities and individ-
uals on the other The case is SINH
lar in Puget Sound.
Fisheries and Fur Seals.
The federal statute regulating in
terstate traffic in game should be ex-
tended to include fish. New federal
fish hatcheries should be established.
The administration of the Alaskan
fur-seal service should be vested in
the Bureau of Fisheries.
Foreign Affairs.
This Nations foreign policy is
based on the theory that right must
be done between nations precisely as
hetueen indiridnals. and in our ac-