The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-07-18

only possible relief from a very poor
service.
Under the proposed parcels post.
the United States would cut off the
farmers present mail delivery service.
the carrier carrying only stamped
packages. The farmers, too, would
pay a large share of the enormous
amount of postal deficit, probably
from $10,0o0.0O0 to $40 1000, 900 in its
entirety.
And the farmers son, fairly well
content to stay on a farm neal a
growing town where he can see a bit
Of life, grows restless and i'll at ease
with nothing at the Corners" except
an agent OIL two for mail-order houses.
a tobacco shop, a restaurant and a
milk depot. He wants 10 see some
thing of life. He yearns to go to the
city and become famous. He knows
he can do because he feels strong
and capable and able 10 hitch his
wagon to a star-and here's wishing
him luck, If he goes. But we cannot
all be famous. Some of us must be
plain heyers of wood and drawers of
water-and there is that bread line!
And the vicissitudes and trials the
boys go through before they swallow
their pride and admit failure, are tor
turing. The boy who comes to the
city to succeed should have a good
physique, a good education and a good
mother. He will need all three.
And II the country town is injured
by the neutrality-suspicious. propa-
ganda the high schools and colleges
OF the country towns will suffer and
boy get the proper education to help
him in the city?
To be sure, he can come without
training. The city is filed with men
of this kind today. They live in the
tenements and exist after a fashion.
rearing a progeny of which the least
said the better.
The place for the poor man is in
the country and legislation that forces
him TO the city is corrupt and mex
cusable. The senator who votes for
parcels post is no friend of yours and
he is a downright ena to your
children-for upon them will fall the
consequences of this unfair system.
The editor OF the Constantine
(Mich.) Advertiser says:
THE census returns indicate that
the large cities are increasing in pop
n1atipn Nyhi1n tho cpoa1l tnmn. ,f th1
country are barely holding their own
or decreasing, so that it is evident
that the drift of population is toward
the large cities. Population always fol-
lows trade. Too much Capitalization, ell
Their in government or in cities, is a
bad thing. Village life and the citi-
zenship developed by it constitute the
only hope for the ~perpetuity of the
free institutions of this country. The
most grave and serious dangers that
now menace our future, result from
the oyergrowth of the large cities and
the consequent degeneration of the ay-
erage citizenship Of the nation. On the
place of the plain people, whose coun-
try environment has made them stable,
steady-handed, self-reliant and indie
pendent in thought and character, we
would have the volatile city multitude
"a floating population anchored to
nothing, owning no real estate or
property, and blown about by every
breeze Of popular prejudice or passion
ready for any rash experiment, so.
cial or political"
Do you realize the truth of these
statements? Do you know what the
life in the cities is doing to the once
sturdy physique of Americans? Do
you know the percentage of lives lost
through ills directly traceable to the
close contact Of life in the metropolis ?
Do you realize how this will in time
write its W blight upon your chill
dren and your children's children?
Awake, you sleeping people of the
pleasant. peaceful communities. Sher-
idan rides today to warn you of a
greater danger than that which beset
o in the days of a different kind Of
war!
Awake and Kill the parcels-post bill
for it is at your very throat. To-
day-now-is the time to act!
BYRON WILLIAMS.