The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-24
THE FARMER: JULY 24, 1911
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We are told that the Babylonians of old saw with trepidation the fiery message-the ''Mene-mene. Tekal Up- harson" on the wall. Also rats scur- ry up the hawsers of a ship which, by an extraordinary development of
 a sixth sense, they provision as being doomed. Similarly Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before,'' and the Captain Kidds and Commodore Nor gans of the express monopoly are bus fly engaged in throwing sop to Ger
 berus in an effort to placate and
 .Letheize" an aroused public.
 A maximum reduction of 50 per cent. by August 1 is going some" In
 strenuous effort to Get the Pub lies Coat and persuade them that they have no more use for the par has for an overcoat, in common with most extortionists and exploiters, they are willing to do anything except take their hands out of the pockets of the public and get off the backs of them asses.
 However. for these small favors. many thanks, and until such a storm of protest shall overwhelm Hitchcock whose ideas of postal economy seem to run toward reduction of salaries of employees and increase of postal rates Gnstead of prying the robber rail- IOdOS duu lu6lT STtcuyJ in the government service out of the public crib) we must summon such patience as we can command.
 Also, what we aspire to be and were not, comforts to us.
 The day is imminent when old vox populi, with a resounding bray will leap into the arena with the initiative, referendum and recall, and fire the incompetents incontinently ride on the incoming crest of the parcel post (as all other civilized countries en- joy it) to satisfactory service, and an immense financial surplus. This we can use to increase the salary and travelling expenses of the President, and pay the Tennessee Coal and Iron and Chicago and Alton ex-trust bus ter to keep silent withal.
 Meanwhile millions of people in this broad land will be privileged to avail themselves of the R. F. D. Service, blow, in the furrow to mitch up'' and go to town for that bottle of milk or magnesia for the baby or the neces- sary ingredients for the dinner he'll phone the order to the drug Or gro- cery store and it will be put aboard the R. F. D. wagon Cat present load- ed with minimum of twenty-five pounds) and delivered without waste of time or loss by wear.
 It has been calculated that the ag- gregate loss to our agragian popu1a- tion from our supine acquiescence to the express company ownership of the United States amounts to three hun dred million dollars year. Worth saving, isn't it? Well, then, let's save it, by establishing a parcel post and abolishing the express monopoly through atrophy (disuse) then govern mentalize the railroads and haul our mail matter at cost, instead of fool ishly continuing to pay from three to eight times as much for hauling mail as the railroads receive for hauling a first class passenger, who loads and unloads himself. N
 And let not the long winded and brain -befuddling investigators" of the obvious, and their interesting en- -l deavors to turn back flip Hops in mid air wide our governments glowing report on the value of the parcel post service between the United States and Porto Rico, etc.,) pull the wool over thine eyes.
 Sic 'em, Towser. he bit your fath- er!-Dr Edwin F. Bowers.