The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-05-21


in every department of the nation
al life. / believe that we should
devote special thought and study
to the betterment Of conditions
for the agricultural classes, and
that we should enact legislation
that will not only be beneficial but
stimulating in its effects.
/ am in favor of laws that will
prohibit gambling in farm pro-
ducts, an evil that is unquestion-
ably responsible for the depression
OF prices and consequent injustice
to the farmer. I am, as before
stateo, strongly On the SIDE, of
good roads, believing that they
are absolutely essential to the
general improvement of rural con-
ditIons.
POsTOFFTCE BUILDINGS FOR TOWNS.
favor such legislation as would
| automatically provide postoffice
buildings for all towns, based on
their gross receipts from one thou
sand to thirty thousand dollars. 1t
should not be necessary for a
special bill to be introduced for
each town when a postofce build
ing is needed. A general bill,
such as favor, wouldautomatical-
| ly authorize building to cost the
amount justified by the gross re-
ceipts of the Office at that point.
The demand for labor and material
thus created would give rise to a
very desirable industrial activity.
In case of necessity the govern
ment could float bonds at 2 per
cent. At present, in many instan-
ces, it is paying ten per cent rental
for buildings used as postofices.
Another desirable. feature of this
plan which / 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.
ONE-CENT LETTER POSTAGE.
| favor and increased rate of
postage on advertising, periodicals,
pamphlets, catalogs &C., which
class of matter the government is
now carrying at loss. Through
such an 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, | am of the opinion that
with an increase in the department
referred to a one-cent rate would
soon be seIf-sustaining.
The rural mail service is one of
The greatest and most profitable
Investments ever made by the
government. | favor all such legis-.
iation 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 means to
obtain it, increased compensation
for the carriers, together with the
Improvement of public highways
will be the most effectual.
[ am in favor of a general par
cells post, but with this restriction;
that it be operated by a well de-
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 merchant at
a distance and to the far-away
mail order houses.
REGULATE CORPORATIONS.
| I favor 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
iained and legally conducted they
are beneficial agency rather than
otherwise But the tendency of so
many of these heavily capitalized
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