The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-31
OPPOSES PARCELS POST.

when the country has disowned its
constitution and proclaimed king,
when the government owns the rail
roads and the people become subjects
rather than free born men, the parcels
post win be logical law for adoption
in the United States.
As we are not bothered by the
proyerbial obiector. with his imma-
terial, irrelevant incompetent and
nothing to do with the case we might
reason and be fair
BY the report from the New York
stock market ending November the
10Th we are apprised Of the fact that
the -Roebuck catalogue stock
sold for $1S5ll, the second highest
quotation out Of about 200 stocks, Ad-
ans Express company being the high
est. So You can see there is new
play on the financial stage of America,
nursed and trained for 20 years by the
catalogue and mail order houses of
the United States. Through their ef-
fort, two Of Americas merchant
princes, one John Wanamaker of Phil
adelphia and Herr Won Meyer Of New
York, were made postmaster generals
to pull off the parcel post stunt. They
failed. But when Sears-Roebuck said
that on April i, 1911, we will pay on
our 1913 100000 stock dividend Of $10,-
100000 then Wall street and Pierpont
Morgan jumped in the game. (They
saw the play was like the stock game,
pay your margins in advance and take
what you get You may bust but no
trust (If you are broke, let the coun-
ty bury you.) They own a subsidized
press, body and soul, and said we Will
make our two merchant princes look
like the proyerbial dirty deuce in a
clean deck when 1T comes to pull off
the parcel post show. The scenery ar
tist for the play, the N. P. P. p. L. of
A., the National Protected Parcels Post
League Of America, cautiously selected
and well paid
The star actors in congress have
been from time to time such as Hon
orable Mr.. Foster of Vermont. Henry
Of Connecticut, Bennett of New York
Beveridge, Morgan and others. They
in their spectacular speeches of from
FIVE to fifteen thousand words, have
been presenting and misrepresenting
the glorious advantages of a parcel
post, telling us how it paid first in
England. Paid whom2 With govern
ment ownership of railroads, the haul
averaging but 43 miles, and with mem
bers of parliament and house of lords
the stockholders in the catalogue
houses, all things shipped by mai
their purses waxed fat. Factory towns
Of upwards OF 5000 inhabitants virtu
ally without stores, half dozen resi-
dent order takers working on commits
sions, telephoning the orders of the
! Gay to be put up and mailed out during
the night The population of England
! in large parts are first land barons
second merchant princes, and a pau
| perized peasantry. They also say j
pays in Germany, and again govern
! ment ownership of railroads and
. peasantry living in the same house
/ that their grandparents were born an,
= died in. And so we might go on in
4 definitely. Let us come back to Amer
a lea and talk about our own most gle
e rious past developments, where ou
i government lands freely given to tn
S settler who in turn made the wilder
Z ness blossom like the rose, but foun
l. something lacking, place to buy an
o sell. Consequently, a store and a stoc
p OF goods was welcome sight to ou
J. pioneers. Yes, and that store did NOR
S than buy or sell, it grubstalked thre,
IS fourths of the newcomers, to say notl
C. ing of the years Of crop failures. Bui
IS by the merchant, banker and profe
Is sional man who has helped with h
e hand and brain to conquer the wilde
ness, constantly giving birth to ne
d civilization, High schools, highway
d high church towers, high land value
s. all got higher and higher until tl
in catalogue house serpent came little /
at little shipping the resources of I'll
IT, country, until today catalogue houi
le capitalizations are eight hundred m
H. lions, with their surplus more than OF
ID one thousand millions, taken from Il
rural Lnited States more than six m
lion dollars day for three hundrl
working days in the year. And this
the result. Wall street the other d;
o. sent fifty million dollars to build q
or nese railroads for Wall street, b
your home banker has no money f
local improvements and still you pc
re sist in the reasonable act of sendh
IS away your mite to the centralizati,
Of money power and in time pauper
ing those depending on yOu