The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-11-17
PARCELS POST
STARTS A ROW
TRANs.M lSSIsslPPi COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS IS SPLIT.
CALLED NATION OF "cHUMPs"

| Parcels Post Advocates, Having Lost
In Committee Where They Expect
ed Victory, Garry Fight Onto Floor
and the Fight Is Bitter.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 16.-Staid
bankers and dignified business men,
together with their less formal broth
ers, and farmers, today swept aside
the banner of peace that has hung
over the trans-Mississipp CONNER
cial congress and plunged into bit
ter struggle over the parcels post and
the questions of states rights Do
feated in the committee where they
had expected victory, supporters OF
parcels post rallied their forces and
when the convention opened not
delegate was missing George j.
kindel of Denver known throughout
the country because of his fights
upon railroad interests of Colorado.
fired the opening gun for the parcels
post adherents which in IA speech was
remarkable for it's bitterness against
what he termed the domination of the
government by the robbcr express
companies" who were getting the
benefit of the failure to have par
GELS post. He declared that only a
nation of 'chumps' would stand for
such damnable treatment and states
manship.
Il predict that in ten years" he
continued there will be no express
company in the interstate or COMPETE
tive business with our postoffice. If
of nf of
March 3, lS45, (forbdding compcti-
ton by private corporation for car
rying mail or packages in cities where
5 there are postoflices) had been en-
forced as it should have been, there
would be no postoffice deficits and
there would be no robber express
D companies to take the very lifes
blood out of us"
Rates Here Are High. ,
a MIR. Kindel said mail rates in the
, United States for parcels post pack
ages were out of all proportion to
10 those of other countries and quoted
figures showing that on the basis of
i an 1l-pound package the United
~, States rates were SIG, compared to
- 46 cents in the highest European
- country. MIR. Kindcl pointed out that
!, while it cost an American SIG to
% send an 1l-pound parcels post pack
~ age into the next county from his
10 home, he could send the same pack
w. age to Europe for $l.32.
- I'VE should have a rural parcels
- post" said Mr. Kindel, lat the post
master generals proposed rates,
= p,, Ia, TO
30. for every additional pound up to the
"a limit of II pounds. That would make
the postage on a rural package of
II pounds 20 cents.
mo mail order house could inter.
fere with the country merchants bust.
ness because the mail order house
ra would be subjected to the general
parcels post rate of cents per pound
nt or So cents, instead of % cents on an
al 11-pound package on the country deal
"a. er's rural route.
es No Handicap to Small Merchant
at ANY country merchant who would
or fail to prosper under 63-cent protec
as tive tariff on an 11-pound shiDmen
as has no business TO inflict himself or
Ter the community
nd "A general parcels post of cent:
Ids per pound and 1l-pound limit and the
ed enforcement of the laws on the sta
nd tute books against all express. woult
soon give 1-cent letter postage ant
mt insure our postoffice department
;ht gains against deficits
,si- Addresses by Congressman William
,ci- p. Borand on "Waterways" and b.
Gov. John Burke of North Dakota OF
Improvement of Inland Waterway
I for Navigation as we'll as an ad
dress by Darwin p. Kingsley of Ney
York City on Life Insurance an
- Justice" occupied the rest of the cor
ventiOn's time.
Would Conserve Water.
Vi To prevent the disastrous floods /
ur' the valley of the Missouri river Go'
III Burke advocated the building of grea
lor reservoirs in the mountains of MOI
''e' tana, where the stream could be dan
ess med and the water from the meltin
liss snow which causes the famous Jun
lse' floods" could be held
'sIs From those reservoirs" continue
Oh the governor "the semi-arid district
Iere of the west can be irrigated while II
mes sauo fron, tbo oroo+ dams will furnis
ldllS from lle BltdI uulio VIII tui hiS
are water power for factory and mill
of -
con- Kansas City, No. Nov. l5.-Unit'
her States Senator Robert l.. Owen,
ally Oklahoma, created sensation at
lnty days session of the -Mississip
Commercial congress wnen he declt
ed he had every reason to belle
that the people who fought DR.. H;
rider vey Wiley, chief of the bureau
A. chemistry, were now furnishing me
Will ey to oppose the movement looki
re- to the establishment of nation
,wer department of health.
SEN Senator Owen had delivered
,ndi- speech strongly urging the necess
was for the new department. Finally
r di. departed from his written address
Dany assert that vast sums of money We
man being spent by those antagonistic
war the idea.
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