The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-14
WHAT IS Being
I DONE TO DEFEAT
The Parcels Post and Main
tian Yoke Of Big Express
Companies
Upon the People is Illustrat-
ed by the Following Dope
Sent Out From
Washington.

washington, -. u, req. 10. - M
American postal employees are paid
about twice the salaries OF employees
Of the express companies, twice the
Salaries of postal employees in Eng
land and three times as much as in
come countries. and as the average
haul would be at least ten times as
long as in England, It is estimated that
the deficit from Parcels Post would
amount to at least s150,OOO,000 yearly,
Such corporations as Montgomery
Ward 4 Co. and others have had their
representatives In behalf of this Leg
islation before the Senate Postoffice
Committee. This is causing some OF
those who want to avoid the impend-
Ing deficit again to point to what Is
said in the Democratic platform about
''favor-seeking corporations"
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
already recommended government
ownership and operation of the tele-
graph systems. These would cost about
$3.50, 100000 and add about 100000 em-
ployes under direction Of the post
master general The New York Times
says that the English governments
operation of telegraphs is losing the
English government much money. A
business may be operated as a private
enterprise successfully and yet be
great loser through more extravagant
government operation. Adherents of
Senator La Toilette and admirers of
ex- President Roosevelt now say that
81 the president did not have the pull
rf the officeholders he could not be
renomlnated. That the president is
not emphatically averse to this exten-
SION of federal authority Is indicated
by the report that he is now consider
ing having Postmaster General Hitch
cock, who so successfully handled the
"roadroller" four years ago, again
manage his campaign.
Southern Democratic leaders. aside
from their historic rntipathy to ex-
tension of federal power and conse-
quent loss OF Importance to self-govern-
ment and OF the rights of states, have
another reason for aversion to this So
ciilistlc and paternallstic program:
This Is reason which made Mr.. Bry-
ans wlnking at government ownership
and operation OF railroads detract from
Ais popularity in thu south just after
lis trlumphal tour abroad, In his
speech upon landing: Government
operation of these utilities means OBJ
liberation OF the color line. The Jim
Crow car system In vogue upon all
southern rallroa , would have To be
discontinued ami whites md blacks
would ride I'm coaches together. South
ern senator's and representatives are
beginning to realize that the opera
hpotnaco
BY the federal government means that
control OF highways by counties and
states will pass to nation with n
swollen IN"
In northern as well as In southern
states, the provision Of the constltu-
on that powers not delegated to the
United States by the constitution, nor
prohibited by 1t TO tie states, are re-
served TO the states respectively, or
10 the people, "is universally accepted
as one of good sense. The independence
OF the people north. as well as south.
causes the majority to took with alarm
upon the entrance of the federal gov
eminent upon a program of Socialism.
The failures OF the Oneida community,
that of Upton Sinclair and of New
Harmony are not forgotten.
They remember also that in such
communities loose notions OF religion
and OF family ties have usually pre-
vailed. This is a reason why churches
generally and one church particular,
10 its credit, have so strongly opposed
Socialism. Particularly in the north
there are large numbers ~ Germans
ond other immigrants from Europe
who much prefer our simple form of
government to the intermeddlng of
'uppish" officials, such as they had
% endure in the strongly centralized
governments of Europe. These prefer
the opportunities which come from the
exercise of industry and thrift and
distrust the beginning of any socialis-
tic system. the adoption of which
means support by their efforts of the
lazy and careless.
Among such, the question arises: "If
the federal government should take
over the transportation companies be-
cause II is alleged these make too
much profit what is there to prevent
the government taking over a factory
al business of any kind and operate
IT, or operate a competing business for
less than cost. as the advocates of
Parcels Post desire the government to
orerate the express carrying busi-
ness?"
Local optionists have expressed their
fears. now heightened by the decision
OF the supreme court just rendered
that government operation of the ex'
press-arrying business will afford a
mighty fundamentally for invasion OF
'.dry" territory ly mail-order liquor
ileuses. Although associations COM
posed of Wholesalers and manufactur-
crs OF most OF the principal cities have
forwarded resolutions against the pro-
posed Parcels Post to the senate and
house 'poEtofflce committees, In one
such organizations. although Il IL said