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from the Parcels HOSt WOulQ duounl to at least $150,OOO,0O0 yearly. Such cor poratiots as Montgomery Ward & Co. and others have had their representa- tives in behalf of this legislation before the Senate Postotfice Committee. This is causing some of those who want o avoid the impending deficit again point to what is Said in the Democratic platform about "favor-seeking corpo- rations".
 Postmaster General HitChcotk has already re, ommended Government ownership and operation of the tele- graph systems. These would cost about $250,O00, ,0O0 and add about 100000 em ployes under direction of the Postmast- CT General. The New York Times says that the English governmtn opera ton of ielegraphs is losing the nisglish government much money. A business may De operated as private .n,erprise successfully and yet be great loser through more extPavagant governmiut oper ration. Adherents of Senator La Toilette and admirers of Ex-President Roosevelt now say that if the Presldenl did not have the 'pull" of the office holders hecould not be renominated That the President is not emphatically averse to his extenion Of Federal au thority is indicated by the report that he Is now considering having Post master General Hitchcock, who so suc- cessiully handled the "road roller" four years ago, again manage his campaign.
 Southern Democratic leaders, aside from their historic antipathy to exten- sion of Federal power and consequent loss of importance to seIf-government and of the rights of states. have anoth- CT reason for aversion to this socialistic and paUernalistic program: 1his Is reason which made AIT. Bry ans wlnking at government ownership and operation of railroads detracL from his popularity in the South just after his triumpnal tour abroad. ill hls speech upon land- ing: Government operation of these utilities means oOiIIeratlOn of the color line. Ihe .'JIm Crow" car system In vogue upon all Southern railroads would have to be discontinued and whites and blacks would ride ill coacnes together. Southern Senators and representatives are beginning tO realize that the opera Llon of an express-carrying business by the Federal Government means that control of highways by counties and states wlli pass tos Nation with s swollen "N".
 Local-OptionisLs have expressed their fears, now heightened by the decision ot the supreme Court just rendered, that Government operation of the ex- prees-carryIns business will atforu a mighty InstrumentallLy tor invasion ot ''dry" territory by mall-order liquor houses. Although associations cOm- posed Of wholesalers and mauuIactL rere ol most uf the prIncrpal citlee have for warued resolutions against the pro- posed Parcels Post to the Senate aud House postOtfice committees, in cue 1 ooOA OASdbASotLOlAp oAthO0Su IL 10 coAo nine-Ienths Ut the members are opposed to this legisiaLIou, resolutions of this character were blocked by the fact that the President is in liquor house which expects considerable revenue from ''ury" terTiLorv and vice-presIuent ls a mahager of mail-order bank print ing supply house.
 The controversy here assumes u broader plane. The fear is often voiced that SocialisLic contradiction meal s enforced homogenity incompatible with American traditions Of liberty and local self-government, Guverument-owned | vernmenl.
 In ui-cussiou Oefore the Commi, et on Foreign Affairs of the House, the destruction of the seal herds in the Pri. bi of Stands WAS made the subject of d warm debate one cold afternoon recent Iy,, by reason of MT. Sulzer of New
 York, Chairman uf ,ne CommnIee bringing he matter befo'e he Hou-' l
 which were Ihterpret. d bS MT. KenuaI, of Io.a, aud others to withdraw pro.
 lection from the great seal herds. in a
 very spirited debate which followed
 Representative Mcclure of Oklahoma,
 declared that notwithstanding the
 herds had been greatly diminished iu
 this choice preserve, that twice as many
 of the animals were born each year as were killed. MT rowner of Iowa, spok. i'll similar view, but MT. Kendall mad. vigorous st and 10 secure some sort ol
 effective aud legitimate prot lection oi the wild life in the North Pacific Ocean He pointed out that at one time there } were five million seals in those north