Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-11-18
THE PARCELS POST
is HELD A MENACE
Resolutions Committee Re-
port Turning Down This
Plan Carried to Floor Of
the Convention.

committee of the Trans Mississippi
Commercial congress. framed set OF
resolutions for presentation to the
congress declaring the Aldrich curren~s
cy plan may be- q step In the right
direction, but refusing to give comsS
plete endorsement to the plan. The
resolution adopted by the committees
on the subject Of currency reads:
Eve realize that the monetary sys.
tenn Of the United States isfinadequatO
for the needs Of the country and
strongly urge upon congress the ne.
cessity for remedial legislation. We
believe that the plan suggested BY the
national monetary commission may
be step In the right direction ana
recommend It's careful and conseryar
tive consideration. There is no
more important question at this time
before the American people, and It
should be considered strictly from tho
standpoint of economics and bust.
ness" TX
The committee rejected q resolut-
tion favoring parcels post. declaring
such law would be q menace to the
development of small towns, and com.
mends the interstate commerce. COM.
mission for beginnipg actioA intended
to, lower the express rates on small
parcels.
A fight on the hoor OF the congress-
over the currency and parcels post
sections was expected. s
The committee rejected resolutions
favoring woman suffrage.
Summary Of Resolutions.
Summarized the resolutions cover
the following points:
=, Recognize and pay tribute to r..
clamation and drainage work both
national and state, as elements
In western Development.
hundred million dollars In bonds
, and harbors from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from the lakes to
the gulf.
Endorse the establishments Of
national department Of health.
Declare In favor ,of government
aid for the construction; Of good
roads.
Endorse the action OF the
Daughters Of the American Revo-
uItIon, In moving to build na-
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ocean and asks national aid for It. #
Favor the deepening Of 0aIvss-
ton harbor to thirty.five feet at
low tide by tho national govern
ment.
Urge the federal government TO
pass laws that will prevent rail-
roads from controlling steamship
lines engaged In coast-wlse trade,
and the national congress to auth
orIze the president to appoint
a commission to make such re-
Communications az will result In
the upbuIIdlng Of an American
merchant marine.
Endorse all efforts to decrease
the waste from fire losses. VI
Trumbo Endorsed for President.
The committee on permanent or
ganization recommended the follow
ing officers to the convention for the
coming year, who were elected by tho
convention:
President-A. G. Trumbo, Musk.
ogee, Okla.
First vice president-H. G. Moore.
Kansas City.
Second vice president-Wa Hill.
ST. Louis.
Third vice president--Lewis Fisher,
Galveston.
Fourth vice president Richard 8.
Jones, Seattle.
Manila Editor on Philippines.
One OF the features Of the closing
day was an address on The Philip
pines" by Martin Egan, proprietor OF
the Cable News, Manila. p. 1.
"The time has gone past" said Mr..
Egan, when 1t avails practical men
to discuss the wisdom OF the Philip
pine islands enterprise.
"The man who proposes to sell or
give away the Philippine islands and
their peoples, the majority OF whom
constitute the only Christians in the
orient, does not know the temper Of
the Christian people OF the United
States Such a barter or abandon-
ment would be an act OF barbarism to
the Filipino people that would make
the name American" reproach to
the world.
There can be. but one Philippine
island policy and its course is so clear.