The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-16

|sem we're very much dissatisfied ~
the form In which the bill provading
for the system. Vas hnaIly passed.
The Opposition OF the Express Com-
IN order 20 ailsy the iniense op-
position OF the Express Companies II
vas necessary for the friends Of the
parcels post In Congress. TO agree 10
modify the bill providing for such \
system. In many important respects.
The most serious concession. to get
the bill through. was TO raise the
rates 20 high On parcels. sent By the
parcels post. as to nearly equal the
charges made by the express compa-
mics for the same weight and dis
tances.
The fact In that our parcels post
system. a. now established. In the
poorest In the world. In every other
country the rates are lower and the
weight and kind OF packages permit
ted TO be carried through the post
oface are larger. In some countries
OF Europe the rate ls less than half
OF that now charged in this country
and the weight OF a single package
permitted to be carried is over q
hundred pounds. while under our
system no package can be carried
that weighs more than eleven pounds
This gives a complete monopoly to
the Express Companies for all pack
ages over eleven pounds, and besides
as the law now stands In some cases
enables the express companies, at
their present rates to carry packages
cheaper than the post Office can carry.
The friends OF parcels post, how
ever, agreed to these unjust provis-
ions in the parcels post law, believ-
ing that IL once the system could be
established that then the people
would demand of their Congressman,
many amendments that would make
the system more just and efficient.
In spite Of the above stated imper-
fections in the parcels post system,
this writer knows of more than one
ready arranged with farmers at a
distance OF fifty miles or less from
this city, to send to them on certain
days by the parcels post, one or more
dressed chickens; a dozen or more
fresh eggs; a pound or more of lamb
chops, etc. Such arrangements we
are informed have been made where
the parcels post rate on such articles
would be only few cents less than
Ehe express rates.
We learn from the Postoffice De-
partment that housewives, hotel
keepers and people in nearly every
city of the country are making SIM
liar arrangements with the farmers
and wealth producers. This explains
the enormous growth of the business
of the parcels post in spite of it's
many imperfections.
A Good Money Trust and a Bad Mon
ey Trust.
A Mr. Baker, of New York, one of
the close and confidential advisers of
John Pierpont Morgan in his gigantic
banking and industrial operations has
just testified before the House Com
mittee appointed to investigate the
money trust.
He admitted that he and Mr.. Nor
gan and a number of other leading
financiers in New York were directors
in many different banks and corpora
ton, having largely the same direc-
tors. He further admitted that the
power held by these Board of Direc-
tors of these various powerful banks
and industrial corporations, which
also control most of the leading rail-
road lines in America, had 1t in their
power to concentrate a large part OF
the money and capital of the country
and create squeeze or a panic when
they saw fit: but he declared that he
and his associates were ''patriotic"
and would not abuse their power,
but that they would use it for the
public good. In answer to a aues-
tion, on cross examination, he ad-
mitted that II the power which he
and his associates had were in the
hands of bad and reckless men, that
they could create bad and frightful
condition.
A prominent politician from the
West who had just read this testi-
mony remarked that the people of
the United States should get tonight
on their knees and thank the "Heav-
emily Father that our business saliva
ton and the perpetuity of our gov
ernment were so firmly held in the
hands of such angel patriots" as
Mr.. Morgan and their associates.