Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-03-09
Edltor Meade County News:

ces Post 1 will again ask a little
space. At last we have merchant
from away up in Minnesota who
speaks in opposition to the Parcels
Post and it is not hard to read be-
tween the lines that he is on the rag
ged edge of ruin. This man argues
as though he expected if we had a
Parcels Post that all merchandise
would be sent by mail instead of by
freigt as they do now. The writer
recently received a shipment of
goods amounting in weight to 755
lbs. This shipment cost delivered
50. 40 per hundred lbs. Had it been
possible to have sent this by Parcels
Post instead of costing me $3.50 it
would have cost SS8.95. 1t is
amusing to hear merchant declare
he can compete with the mail order
houses ard then see him tremulous
for fear of postage rate which
alone is more than the bulk of the
goods cost delivered.
This Minnesota merchant says
his country is thickly settled and
that there is a great many more that
don't know how to buy than there is
that do. This is easily remedied.
| Just have a guardian appointed for
each one and as the country is thick
ly settled it will make lots of busl-
ness for the probate court, the news
papers and the lawyers and they in
turn can patronize the merchants
and general boom is on. 1t seems
this man is neglecting golden OPP
portunity to start something doing,
but seriously did he fling this insult
into the face of his own customers?
Did he publish it in his home pa
pers? If so it is not hard to figure
out why he is in such dire straits.
| am inclined to think it is sort of
reciprocity arrangement by which
his articles can be published in dis
tant places, and some Kansas or
Colorado merchants name can be
used under a similar article in Min
nesota. This Minnesota almost adj
mits that. the postal deficit will dis
appear under Parcels Post in the
following words: cit is very plain
to the merchant that the Parcels
Post law is frame up to make him
bear the burden of the postal def.
cit" Then he adds, "Not only
this but a general Parcels Post is
just as sure to follow a rural Parcels
Post as day is to follow morning.
Why? We answer for the same rea-
son that the small boy wants to cal
the whole apple after he has taken
one bite. If the apple was bitter he
would discard it, but being good he
wants it all. So after trying the
Parcels Post in a limited way and
finding 1t good thing we will want
a general Parcels Post.
1t is not for the people of Meade
county to consider what effect thi:
law will have on this Minnesota
merchant, being so unfortunately
situated as he is, but will it be {
good thing for Meade county? The
idea being the greatest good to the
greatest number, but this is enough
space to waste on the Minnesota
merchant.
Mr.. Editor, why did you not an
swer my other article2 You say i
is just a difference of opinion be
tween US. say it is largely a mat
ter of fact capable of demonstra
ton. You must know the mail or
der houses do break original pack
ages, your statement to the con
trary Notwithstanding. You mus
know they stand the expense o
weighing and sacks, your statemen
to the contrary Notwithstanding
You must know that the bill is no
backed exclusively by the catalogue
houses, your statement to the con
trary Notwithstanding. You mus
know there are some farmers back
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