cae? 
mitted to do, and what is the fee 
charged? Answer: 130, no charges 
made; 72, charge 5 to 25 cents— 
average not over 10 cents. 
Tlow many newspapers have you 
and are they for or against Parcels 
Post? Answer: 32 for Parcels Post; 
139 have not expressed any opinion; 
192 outspoken against. 
Washington has joined the ranks 
of those cities which have establish- 
ed permanent funds:and organiza- 
tions for the securing of conventions. 
Cities now realize that hap-hazard 
work is not the best kind to win re- 
sults; They indulge in . various 
forms of enterprise to secure popu- 
lation and trade, and one of these is 
the formation of associations to 
secure conventions. While it may be 
argued that the hotels are the chief 
beneficiaries in such cases, the hotels 
are obliged to spend most of the 
money they take in for wages, pro- 
visions, rents, and supplhes of differ- 
ent kinds. In the end, practically 
every person in a city benefits in some 
degree from the holding of a large 
convention, for even householders 
who are not in business will find that 
their property, grows in value, and 
the working people will learn that 
the increased prosperity due to the 
expenditures of strangers, even for 
the few days they are in the city, 
“will make it easier for them to get 
end keep employment. There is 
good logic, therefore, in working to 
secure conventions, and Washington 
is one of the most desirable cities in 
which to hold them. 
One of the most forceful speakers 
‘in Congress is Senator Owen of 
Oklahoma. In his speech upon the 
election of senators by direct vote of 
the people. he said recently that the 
people want things which are denied 
them. tHe said: 
‘“‘The people want the control of 
monopoly and the reduction of the 
high prices of monopoly. Why don’t 
they get it? Moody’s Manual for 
1907, page 2330, give over 1,000 com- 
panies absorbed. or merged by or 
-into other companies for 1907, and 
these conditions grow more -each 
year. Organized monopoly controls 
the meat market; controls the sell- 
ing price of beef, mutton, pork, 
fowls, and every variety of meat. 
“Organized monopoly controls the 
prices of all bakery products and 
‘candies and preserves; of all canned 
- goods and tropical fruits; sugar and 
salt and spices. Monopolies control 
everything that goes on the table, 
the price of everything that enters 
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the house, the price of everything 
worn upon the back of man, the 
price of all materials of which build- 
ings are constructed paper and sta- 
tionery goods, iron, copper, and steel 
and metals and goods made of these 
materials, dairy products, railway 
and steamship lines, telegraph, tele- 
phone, and express companies. They 
control everything needed by man, 
from the. cradle which received the 
baby, and the toys. with which a 
child plays, to the casket and the 
cerements of the grave. 
“The people demand a fair price 
for their crude products, for their 
eattle and hogs and sheep and the 
corn and hay and grass ted into 
these domestic animals and mar- 
keted. 
‘Why is there no control of over- 
capitalization of the over-issue of 
stocks and bonds of corporations? 
‘‘Why is there no effective control 
of railroad, passenger, and freight 
rates after twenty years of agita- 
tion ? 
‘“Why is there no’ adequate con- 
trol of the discrimination of railways 
against individuals or discrimina. 
tions in favor of one community 
against another? 
‘“The people are opposed to these 
discriminations, but their represen- 
tatives who are in power do not ade- 
quately represent the reasonable de- 
sires of the people: 
‘““Why is there no physical valua- 
tion of railways as a basis of honest 
freight and passenger rates?’’ 
The speech as a whole was a 
strong appeal for direct rule by the 
people. 
An instructive bulletin just issued 
by the Department of Agriculture 
tells how farmers may construct 
their’ own fence posts out of con- 
erete. The bulletin says: 
““Tf manufactured as usual and 
cured -for three months, concrete 
posts are as good as the best wooden 
posts of same size. After three years’ 
service wooden posts possess only 
from one-third to one-half of their 
original strength, whereas, concrete 
erows stronger with age and needs 
no repairs, for neither weather nor 
fire injures it. Under ordinary eir- 
cumstances good conerete posts will 
last forever; and even if a few, in 
the course of years, should be broken 
by unusual strains, it 1s cheaper to 
replace these than to replace an en- 
tire fenee of decayed wooden posts - 
the 
with posts of material with 
came lack of durability. 
‘“Conerete posts are attractive in 
appearance because of their uni- 
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formity of size and color. and, be- 
cause of their durability, they effect 
® saving in giving greater life to the 
fencing material used, so that the 
permanent value of the property is 
inereased,’’ 
Full instructions for making con- 
crete posts are given and the bulletin 
can be had from the Department for 
the asking. 
If persons who are opposed to 
prize-fighting can have their way 
there will be no meeting between 
Jeffries and Johnson at San Francis- 
co on July 4, or any other time. One 
of the latest moves made by the op- 
ponents of prize-fighting was the 
distribution in Washngton by a re- 
form association which maintains a 
lobbyist here, of a circular letter 
threatening that unless the Califor- 
nia Congressmen would oppose the 
holding of the prize fight, the reform 
association would oppose the grant- 
ing of Congressional recognition to 
the Panama-Pacifice — Exposition, 
which is to be held in San Francisco 
in 1915 to celebrate the opening of 
the Panama Canal. New Orleans 
hopes to hold an exposition also, and 
it is possible that both cities will 
have expositions running at the 
same time. Anyway, San Francisco 
seems determined to have an exposi- 
tion, whether Congress will lend its 
aid or not. 
It is announced by the Geological 
Survey that in accordance with the 
appropriation made by Congress for 
the continuation of the investigation 
of Alaskan mineral resources by the 
United States Geological Survey 
twelve parties have been organized 
for work in Alaska during the sea- 
son of 1910. Three of these parties 
are now at work and most of the 
others are on the way to the field, as 
in previous years, the work will con- 
sist of explorations, reconnaissance 
and detailed surveys, study of the 
geology and. mineral resources, and, 
in the placer districts, stream gaging. 
The parties were organized and 
started for the field at the earliest 
date possible, so that they might be 
able to utilize fully the brief period 
in which surveys can be made. 
Alfred H. Brooks will continue 
the supervision of Alaskan’ surveys 
and investigations. — 
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