Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-29

~ to the railroads. $i.SO0.O00 for rent of postal cars. with which to carry the mails and the railroads usually furnish wooden cars that telescope during wrecks and kin or main the underpaid and overworked postal clerks. Remember that this S4 500 ON1 paid to the railroad companies each year as rental for the postoilce cars in addition 10 the S46.0O0.00O paid each year to the railroad companies for carrying the mails. Consider for a moment what an enormous sum ol money could be saved Co the govern ment if it would build its own cars, The most expensive car, an steel. costs $l2.OO0 and it's average life IS twenty-five years 70 that with this S4,SOO. .000 which the government pay s the railroads each year for the rent of cars we could blild 100 steel cars annually.
 The sum Of money a=Toeatins Sf6,OO0 900 annually for carrying mail. IS reached because railroads charge the United States four and threefourths cents per pound for cal- rying mail matter, but the railroads carry the express matter for express companies at three-fourths of cent Istt lOuutO ohNA ANNbNAs , bA NAst 5Nf ernment must not be permitted tO con- tinue.
 I am an advocate of the parcels post. and as John Wanamaker sad there are only four reasons why We have been unable tO get the pal cels post. and these four reasons are the four express companies of the United States.
 Conservation
 am in favor of common sense cor servaticn of our natural resources bui an strongly opposed 10 that bureau cratic policy of so-called cOnserva- tion which is really retrogression and stagnation and which excludes the miner. the rrospector, the livestock raiser, and the hOmesteader from le- gitimate opportunity.
 Land, coal resources were created for mans use. They are valuable only after labor has been applied 10 their raw condition and converted them into products useful to mankind.
 The wholesale withdrawal of pub lie lands and the marrow. strained and iAiberal constructions placed Dy the department upon the laws Telat ing to such subjects have resulted in denying hundreds of thousands CT our citizens the opportunity to earn a living and such policy is annually driving thousands of Americans 10 Canada where they may get back tp the soil.
 Of course. the coal trust, oil trust and lumber trust encourage and pro mote these withdrawals of public lands so that the trust may retald its monopoly. which would be loos- ened if not broken, were such lands placed within the reach Of the ordlA- ary citizen.
 The best and only way 70 promote settlement and cultivation Of the public lands is to open these lands 10 the poor, to those who are look ing for opportunities to make then selves independent and those who are enQeavoring to escape from the landIordIsnl of another.
 The Tariff
 in the school books that are usel Ly the students in our schools. Wa find a tarin to be defined as follows:
 An indirect tax. paid by the con sumner. laid upon goods imported into a country.
 IL would be difficult to find more ant definition of a tariff han this on found in our school books, td' Senator Cores definition is more contentious. He recently defined a tariff to be:
 "A means of allowing one man tc get without working for 1t, that which another man works for bU does not get
 The tarin affects :he earning capac ity of a man; it enters into the eN venses of the home builder and th, housekeeper. the prices Of the child ren's clothing, from hats to shoes, at' fixed and determined by it; and there fore 1t is of the utmost importance that husbands and wives, fathers an mothers. should acquaint themselves as fully as possible with the suDlec'
 During the past forty years th' protected interests of this counlI! with marvellous success nave ce ludcd the public into accepting ant believing the ridiculous and tal .uroDosition that low tariffs Drlh' low wages and that high protectiV' tariff schedules bring high wages Nothing could be falser or furthel from the truth.
 Now, what is the purpose or tarif2 Tariffs are levied TOT rev enue or for protection. sometime for both. But tariff for protection J fine real purpose of the tarin in th' country. Revenue tariffs contemplat the bringing of goods into the coun try Protective tariffs contemplai The exclusion of goods; and are there fore always higher than revenue tar ifs. Under a protective tarin, th dolssstic manufacturers, with a mon oDoly in the home market, by addln the amount of the duty to the prlce of his goods, forces the consumer u nav more for the gods than ne UA' manufacturer could sell them for T an open, competitive market. Henc5 when tariffs are high, the eonsumc nays all the goods are worth pll inc amount of the tariff, and in thi way the consumer becomes a con tributor out of his earnings an savings to the enormous profits c the trusts and protected industries
 Did you ever hear of protecte industry raising wages because tn tariff increased it's profits. Never On the contrary, the American wofs man is compelled to throw his laDo into an open. unprotected market an