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delphia, & Reading- and Central R. R.
of New Jersey). The Pennsylvania
has 14 trains each day and the Bal
timore & Ohio has 9. From Washing
ton, South, we have the Seaboard Air
Line, leaving- Washington at 4:30 a.
m. and 4:40 p. m., arriving at Atlanta
at 5:20 a. m. and 2:50 p. m. on the
second day, respectively; and New
Orleans at 8:10 p. m. -on the second
day and 7:40 a. m. on the third day,
respectively. The Southern Railway
leaving Washington at 11:15 a. m.
and 10:43 p. m., arriving at Atlanta
at 5:10 a. m. and 3:55 p. m. on the
second day, respectively, and at New
Orleans at 8:10 p. m. on the second
day and 7:40 a. m. on the third day,
respectively. Also, the Norfolk &
Western R. R. leaving Washington
at 9:00 p. m. and arriving at New Or
leans at 8:30 a. ra. on the third day.
Mail from Boston, Philadelphia
and Washington for New Orleans is
sent by the Southern Railway because
that line insures the quickest deliv
ery. For Atlanta the Seaboard.' Air
Lina is used for the 10:50 a. ra. dis
patch from New York, 1:12 p. m.
from Philadelphia, and 4:40 p. m.
from Washington, as Ithat connection
arrives in Atlanta at 2:50 p. m. >
whereas if held for the 10:43 p. m.
Southern train from Washington it
would not arrive in Atlanta until 3:55
p. m. On all other connections the
80111110171 makes the quickest time and
therefore carries the mail.
Secondly: The Southern Railway,
which is paid from the appropriation
of $196,000 for extra facilities, has
not put on an extra train; nor has
it changed its schedule by reason of
such appropriation. The train sched
ule of this line was practically the
same before the appropriation was
made as it has been since.
Very respectfully,
JAMES E. WHITE.
Gen’l. Supt.
FROM A NOBLE OLD VETERAN
OF THE REFORM WARS.
Melmore, 0., Nov. 9, 1907.
Mv Dear Watson:
On my arrival home after seven
weeks’ visiting among relatives and
friends in Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia, ending at Roanoake, I
find an accumulation of mail including
your letter of October 30. I am
surely glad to be remembered by one
so faithful and alert a watchman for
the welfare of our common humanity.
The “letter” to which you refer, had
long since passed from my memory,
and its non-appearance in the Jeffer
sonian never gave me the least con
cern. Its columns have been filled
with choice matter and its editorials
have the ring of inspired intelligence
and the courage of the Prophet who
dares to say to a king, “Thou art the
man.” Seldom do the pioneers of
progress get credit for proclaiming the
truth when its advocacy is unpop
ular. But sure as God lives and rules
aa “King of kings,” truth will tri
umph and under its sway men shall
become “free indeed.”
Your analysis of the motives of
Morgan and Rockefeller in wishing to
prevent a bankers’ panic is clear,
forceful and just. God speed the day
when the people shall hav* sense
to supply tkmc >*]▼•* with
enough seal Wjonsy in sufficient vol-
WATSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
ume to maintain a just level of prices,
instead of depending upon a ring ot
cut-throat middle men, with its
base and costly substitute of “bank
credits”—even this “substitute” to
be withheld, when most needed at its
own sweet will. When will the peo
ple learn this vital truth: “The power
that control the country’s currency is
absolute master of its business and
industries”? Certainly, Brother Wat
son! Make any use you choose of
my communications. While I write
to express my appreciation of the no
ble work you are doing as journalist,
at my age (78), it is not to be con
spicuous personally. May you live to
be vindicated by the “Logic of
Events,” and the verdict of enlight
ened public opinion. Will remit soon
for Jeffersonian.
Cordially and truly yours,
JOHN SEITZ.
THE PARCELS POST.
Postmaster General Meyer will rec
ommend, in his forthcoming annual
report to the president, the estab
lishment of the parcels post. He is
animated, he declares, by considera
tions of convenience to the rural pop
ulation.
From a strictly utilitarian point of
view the parcels post has much to
commend it, but to the small mer
chant, tradesman and tax-payer it
means business suicide, quick and
certain. It is easy to see that under
this system the catalog house of
the larger cities would soon destroy
the commercial life of our smaller
cities and towns and virtually wipe
them off the map.
Tn the territory immediately con
tiguous to our larger cities the cata
logue houses have already ruined the
business of most merchants in the
smaller towns. Possessing unlimited
capital to operate upon and buying in
vast quantities, thus securing the ben
efits of the cheapest transportation
rates, they are enabled, through their
svstera of selling by catalog num
ber, to drain the business of the rural
communities which naturally belongs
to the small merchant and tradesman.
As the inevitable result, business in
the towns and villages is stagnant
and property values ridiculously low.
No one wants to live in a town where
commercial activity is lacking, and
no one will retain property therein if
they are fortunate enough to find
someone who will take it as a virtual
gift.
Twenty-five years ago, the small
towns and villages in the region con
tiguous to Chicago were both pros
perous and thrifty. Today they are
about as dead as the proverbial door
nail, and all because the Chicago cat
alog houses have driven most of
their merchants ou of business, and
the bulk of their citizenship to newer
fields. Property values have de
creased in consequence, and the bur
den of taxation upon the rural com
munities increased.
The parcels post would operate to
give the catalog houses undisputed,
control over much of the business of
the entire country. Under it, wo
would see trade belonging to the local
merchant going to the large cities
without let or hindranee, ami even
tuating in the destruetion of the small
tow** and villages. I* a business
way, they would be all but wiped off
the map.
A system which is fraught with
such, dire consequences as this can
not be looked upon with complaisance
by any set or class cf citizens. In
our scheme of commercial life we need
the small town with its merchants,
and tradesmen, the same as we need
the business center, and we cannot
afford to do away with them for ben
efits and conveniences secured by fed
eral delivery of parcels.—The Okla
homian.
THE MONEY SITUATION.
Has been very serious for some
time and Wall Street has suffered
very severely. The government
proved its complete subjugation t>
those gamblers and money thieves by
rushing there with great bags of gold
to bo loaned upon collateral which
was holding a position in the market*
simply because it was listed and could
be borrowed on. While it is very true
that the situation was serious, and
the assistance in this instance was
necessary, yet had not years of lax
and lavish nursing upon the part
of the Federal Government been de
voted to the largest gambling den in
the world—Wall Street, such a thing
as taking the money of the people
and casting it before these human
parasites would have been unneces
sary.
While Corlelyou is rushing to New
York to loan these speculators money
the government refuses to deposit one
cent in the South to be loaned on
cotton at 23 per cent of its market
price. When has cotton ever refused
to sell at three to four cents? What
more staple collateral could he de
vised than this staple which is used
the world over and which will always
be in demand before more can come
on the market to take its place? And
yet the Federal Government, (he
mighty Government, the loving Gov
ernment, the “Everyman’s Govern
ment,” takes its money to New York
and loans it on pieces of paper which
have been turned out in reams to
represent fictitious wealth. Is there
justice, is there economic practicabil
ity in such a thing? Suppose it took
every cent -in the treasury to save
Wall Street, no doubt little dog Cor
telyou would rush to New York with
the cash. Suppose many fortunes
which are counted by these aforesaid
reams of printed paper should dwin
dle as did one there during this last
panic—$30,000,000 lost simply in the
value of the paper which they held—
where would the people’s money go?
On the other hand, suppose cotton
were to drop to the very bottom, how
many foreign nations would fall ov
er themselves to send the cash for the
entire crop? They cannot be num
bered on the fingers of one baud.
Some day it may come to the place
when the people will be treated as
though they were sovereign, but not
until they teach the gamblers of Wall
Street that the government was not
made for the exploiting of their un
holy gain, but “for and by the peo
ple.”—Lebanon (Tenn.) Banner.
“Knox’s boom in a nutshell,” is
the wav a Pittsburg contemporary
speaks of il. Must, b* taking rood
care of it if that’s whore the Ksox
boernew ars keeping it.
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