The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-05-24

in ~ er, department. of the nation
Ia he | b,lirvp that we shouit
devote 50 ~'.l thought and study
10 Ne berternient Of condition:
for the agricultural classes, ant
that we should enact Legislation
that will not only be beneficial bu
stimulating in it's effects.
/! | am in favor Of laws that vii
prohibit garDhfng 10 farm pro-
ducts, an evil that is unquestion
ably responsible for the depression
of prices and consequent injustice
to the farmer. l am, rs before
stateo, strongly On the SIDE OF
good roads, believing that they
are absolutely essential to the
general improvement of rural con
ditlons.
POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS FOR TOWNS.
favor such legislation as would
automatically provide postotiice
buildings for all towns, based on
! their gross receipts from one thou
sand to thirty thousand dollars. 1t
should not be necessary for
special bill to be introduced for
each town when postotfice build
ing is needed. A general bill,
such SIS / favor, would automaticai-
Nv authorize a building TO cost the
am"unt justified by the gross re-
eei,ts Of the Office at that, point.
fhe demand for labor and materi
sha> created would: give rise TO
very desirable industrial activity.
In case of necessity the govern
inent COULD float bonds at 24per
cent. At present, in many instan-
,ses, it is paying temper cent rental
Tor buildings usedias ,postohices.
Another desirable feature of this
plan which I advocate is the saw
ing of time TO Congress. " Under
the present system. each bill must
be passed on separately and With
considerable loss of costly time.
oMR-cENT LETTER POSTAGE.
favor and increased, rate of
po> tage on,adsertising, periodicals.,
pamphlets, catalogs &C., which
GLASS of matter the government is
now carrying at loss. Through
such all increase / believe that a
one-cent letter postage would soon
Justify itself. Based on the re-
auctions In the past which have
brought us down to the two-cent
rate, / ann of the opinion that
with an inercase in the department
referred to one-cent rate would
soon be seEf-sustaining.
he rura9 mail service is one OF
be greatest and most profitable
investments ever made by the
government, | favor allsuch legis-
la,ion as has for it's object the
strengthening of this arm Of our
postal department. ] believe that
the highest efficiency should be
the aim; and that. as a means to
Obtain it, increased compensation
for the carriers, together with the
Improvement of public highways
viii be the most etfectual.
am IN favor of a general par
cells post, but with this restrictions;
that it be operated by a welt &c
fined zone system. Its object
should be to- hold the local mer;
chant and farmer / would oppose
a measure that would give unique
advantage to the, big mercaant at
distance and to the far-away
mail order houses.
REGULATE CORPORATIONS.
/ flvor government regulation
of corporations. No thinking
citizen can say that corporations
when operated according to law
are an evil. They are necessary to
the economic and industrial growth
of the country. Properly main
tanned and legally conducted they
are beneficial agency rather than
otherwise, But the tendency of SO
many of these heavily capitalized
concerns has been to operate solely