Thursday, January 25, 1912.
THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER
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Parcels Post.
Farmer Who Would Consider It n
Disgrace, Says Barrett, To Be
Skinned In, a Horse-Trade, Fool
C‘d by Politicians Fvery Day
About Parcels Post and Other
Political Measures.
To the Officers and yjeinbe
the Farmers’ Union :
^fhc main reason, the American
farmer is not now and has ? for
sonie years been enjoying the bene-
of a general parcels post, is his
own laziness. Added to that, per-
is his practice of letting tlie
politician give him a toy to play
with and distract his a*:tL'ition,
when he begins to seriously demand
2- general parcels post. The same
•"ole applies to other needed legisla
tion.
^ he hardest reforms or measure-3
to enact into law are these fav -rc-I
hy the overwhelming majority of
people, but for which this same
^^^j'ority will not develop suTciejit
energy to get out and make a figi.-t
- n't,- • ®
-^nere are no reasonable men in
America opposed to a general par-
post, except those few who
^ sve, or think they have, a selfish
^nterest in defeating it or postpon-
it. Yet we have the spectacle,
hese years, of representatives of
farmers striving in vain to ob-
^"^in the crystalizing into legislation
3- measure , self-evidently just,
^^id Self-evidently popular.
The express companies have been
^ ^rged with maintaining a ricli
powerful lobby against the par-
post. Other interests have
Gen plastered with the same in-
P^ctment. It would not be surpris-
Or unnatural if either, or both,
^^cusations, were well-founded.
Fut all the express lobbies, and
the other lobbies in America
*'°uldn’t prevent the enactment of a
general parcels post, if the Amer-
farmer, whose vote controls
^‘^^gress, brought sufficient press-
„■ to bear on his representative
'■^^d senator to get results.
tinder treaty agreements, wc
y ^'*^ve a general parcels post
/considerable more than half
^^'^dized nations of the world,
possible to mail an eleven-
to^T^^ Package from San Francisco
Dondon, to St. Petersburg, \^i-
^l^na, Paris, Berlin, Hon Kong, to
negroes in Port-au-Prince,
^yti, for twelve cents a pound.
it costs sixteen cents a pound
senator, and make your support of
him in the next election contingent
upon his supporting a general
parcels post bill. Talk about “prac
tical politics,” that’s practical poli
tics with a vengeance. You mu.st
insist upon a straight answer.
though, and then you must follow
up the answer with letters prodding
him until his vote is actually re
corded for a general parcels post.
Be from Missouri. You would
e\ erlastingly keep your eyes peeled
to keep yourself from being skin
ned in a horse trade. You’d think
i*' a disgrace to admit you had palm
ed off on you a spavined or wind
galled nag. Yet you get skinned,
time after time, in important poli
tical measures by the fellow you’re
laying to represent you and attend
to your business. Isn’t it about the
time you applied the same vigilance
to politics you do, or ought to do,
to horse-trading and business gen
erally ?
CHARLES S. BARRETT.
Washington, D. C., Jan. i8, 191:^.
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Farmers’ Union Badges.
We will have a number of Farm
ers’ Union Badges which we will
give away to subscribers sending
us 85 cents for a years subscription
to the Carolina Union Farmer,
either new or renewal subscriptions
will count in this offer.
These badges have heavy gold
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Address: The Carolina Union
Farmer, Gastonia, N. C.
the
tf)
^tiil the same package from your
f^unty county scat ad
^he bulk into three or four
Th
^ President has recommended
Ij l^^^cels post on the rural free de-
tio^*^^ routes, with an investiga-
er ^ to the advisability of a gen-
hu^ .P^ycels post. That is progress,
slo variety—very
and tortuous.
suppose you sit down right
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