Holbrook argus., 1912-02-27
tance might be justified by their diffusion of intelligence necessary

tance might be justified by their diffusion of intelligence necessary for stability of a republic.
 The present carriage of merchandise up to four pounds regardless of dis tance was only incidental; for samples, for information purposes, etc. This has been so abused that is might be more just to transport even merchant disc under this limit at rates propor- tionate to distance.
 The chief argument used to locate in- dustries in the Central West has been that thereby such concerns would be
 nearer the concerns of population and markets. If the Government should haul much merchandise at rates regard
 less of distance, there would be little indncement for a factory to locate or establish branch in the west or South.
 Factories would congregate were labor and power are cheapestt The proposed system, he belived, was |" protection to home industries" reserved to destruct- tion of home industries.
 "Parcles Post he said, "is the en- tering wedge of Government ownership aLd Sodia1ism.'' It will ne essitate large increase of force and equipment. It's chief advocates have lnterduced bills providing for Government opera tion of transportation lines, including public highways, "at lowest possible rates regardless of distance" If the limit be increased to eleven pounds, why not HOO pounds? It has been said that eleven pounds is the weight of . gallon of whiskey, jug and container.
 Advocacy of Government entrance in- to express carrying business is natur- ally followed, he said, by Soclalistic demands for its ownership and opera tion of telegraph lines, telephones, railroads, coal mines, etc. Individual ism, initiative and self-reliance would disappear under such paternalism and bureaucracy. Government conduct of business is more costly and wasteful than -priviate operation. Regulation not operation, should be had.
 Many factories are moving out the large cities to towns and smaller cities where living conditions produce -~iin.-1 proved types of citizenship, he ar gued. and Paroles Post would stop this move ment of decentralization. It would bright the efforts of live industrial or ganizations for town development. For the Government to place the products of the factories well ests blished in old-settled communities into the mar kets of he Central West at the same price as charged to local industri es, many of which are new and struggling for foothold, would rebuke the pioneer spirit and punish local enterprise.
 He did not believe this to be a true function of the United Statss Govern mont. Ours differs from those of the old world in it's encouragement to liber- ty of thought and action, equal and exact justice to all. Local merchants, he said, should likewise be allowed to retain the advantages nature and their own efforts and expenditures had given them of these, he believed, would be class Legislation Agetation, which it was assumed came from the farmers really came from retail mail-order houses. Thought the voice might that of Jacob. the hand was that of Esua. To be ''progressive,' towards Socialism is not real progress, he claimed: but. we should seek the told paths'' and oppose further entrance by the Fed eral Government into fields of private enterprise.