PUFFS AND PUNCHES
Puffs and Punches I HAVE Just read with much Interest the article of Senator La Follette on "Our Munitions Patriots," also the Quotation from Senator Moses E. Clapp in regard to ownership of...
...We could not have mail service even between cities and the surrounding country without postoffices and we cannot have direct dealing between the country farms and city consumers without like country and city offices...
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...The parcel post is trying to aid individuals in the country to deal with individuals in the city but this is the individual system and only the collective system with the offices can succeed...
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...Industrial strategy is more Important than military strategy for industrial harmony will end all warfare...
...this is the opposite of the present individual selling system...
...I think that with government ownership of railroads every trust in the United States of any magnitude could be broken up and that competition in the various lines of trades and manufactures could be brought about, John U. hkmmi Judge, County Court, Jamestown, North Dakota...
...I think that we are forced to take that position if we ever expect to gain any substantial relief from the oppressions that we hare so long borne with, not only on the part of railroads but upon the part of a great many other trusts and combinations of special interests for their own extortionate profit...
...I also believe the remark of Moses B. Clapp opportune and that the people of this state are now ready for just such a move on the part of our state, and people of other states would readily follow an honest and capable leader on such a proposition...
...Will endless patching up of the present spoils system pay when a new system without the struggle for spoils can be so easily adopted...
...La Follette's Magazine motto "the ruth will make you free" is the true and hopeful view, for these ultimates are only collective buying and selling through local offices and managers like postoffices and postmasters...
...The January number of La Fol-lette's Magazine has just arrived, and, as usual, found very interesting.—E...
...The nation is looking in the direction of collective action and it is already a success in handling oranges, etc., for members in a limited territory, but what we need is national action open to all like the parcel post...
...L., Chicago, Illinois...
...H. O., Chicago, Illinois...
...Legislation can never make our complicated selling system a success.—W...
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...1 have been a subscriber to La Fol-lette's Magazine from its first issue and am pleased to say that I still have great confidence in the ability and integrity of Senator La Follette and the course which he has pursued...
...It is simple, but a complete new system that will end profit trade...
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...G., Hardy, Nebraska...
...These blanks are now supplied to every postoffice in the nation but blanks for producers and consumers need be supplied only as groups are formed to use them...
...Puffs and Punches I HAVE Just read with much Interest the article of Senator La Follette on "Our Munitions Patriots," also the Quotation from Senator Moses E. Clapp in regard to ownership of railroads...
Vol. 9 • February 1917 • No. 2
