The Nevada County picayune., 1912-07-19
only possible relief rom 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 1 amount of postal deficit. probably 1 from $10,000,00O to $20,000,000 in it's entirety.
 And the farmers son, fairly well content to stay on a farm near growing town where he can see bit of life grows restless and i'll at ease with nothing at the Corners except an agent or two for mailorder houses, a tobacco shop, q restaurant and a milk depot He wants to see some. thing of life. He ytarns to go 10 the city and become famous. He knows he can do because he feels strong and capable and able to hitch his wagon to a star-and here's wishing him luck. If he goes. But We cannot ell be famous. Some of Us must be plain hoNers of wood and drawers of Water-aud there Is that bread line!
 And the Eicissitudes and trials the hoys go through before they swallow their pride and admit failure, are tor turing. The boy who comes 10 the city to succeed should have good physique. q good education and q good mother. He will need all three.
 And if the country town is injured by the mailCrder-parcels-post pr0pa- ganda tie high schools and colleges of the country towns will suffer and go uuder-~hcre, then. will the poor boy get the proper education to help him in the eity?
 To be sure. he can come without training The city Is filled with men Of this kind today. They live in the tenements and exist after 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 10 the city is corrupt and ineX- cusabie The senator who votes for parcels pest is no friend of yours and he is downright menace to y9ar children=for upon Hem VIII fall the l consequences of this unfair system.
 The editor of the Constantine l tHehl Advertiser says:
 "The census returns Indicate that tie large cities are increasing in pep uIation while the small towns of the 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 standardization, ci ther in government or in cities is I bad thing Village life and the cii- zenship developed by il constitute the only hope for the perpeuity of tho free institutions of this country. The most grave and serious dangers that HOW menace our future. result from the oyorSrowth of the large c.ties and the consequent dogenoration Of the ay- craze citizenship Of tHe nation On the place of the plain people, whose coun- try environment has made them stable, stcady-haudcd, Gclf.reliant and indc. pendent in thought and character, We would have the volatile ely multitude -a floating population anchored 10
  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 it's own blight upon your chil- 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 you in the days of a different kind of war!
 Awake and kill the pareels-post bill for it is at your very throat. To- day-uoW-is the time to act
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