Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note: obvious printers’ errors have been corrected but the spelling, hyphenation etc. in this book is generally inconsistent, as you might expect from a collection of articles by different authors: the editor did not impose a uniform style.

_DEBATERS’ HAND BOOK SERIES_

PARCELS POST

DEBATERS’
HANDBOOK SERIES

Enlargement of the United States Navy (3d ed. rev. and enl.)

Direct Primaries (3d ed. rev. and enl.)

Capital Punishment

Commission Plan of Municipal Government (2d ed. rev. and enl.)

Election of United States Senators

Income Tax (2d ed. rev. and enl.)

Initiative and Referendum (2d ed. rev. and enl.)

Central Bank of the United States

Woman Suffrage

Municipal Ownership

Child Labor

Open versus Closed Shop

Employment of Women

Federal Control of Interstate Corporations

Parcels Post

_Other titles in preparation_

_Each volume, one dollar net_

_Debaters’ Handbook Series_

SELECTED ARTICLES
ON THE
PARCELS POST

COMPILED BY
EDITH M. PHELPS

MINNEAPOLIS
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
1911

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The plan of this volume is very similar to that of the others of the series to which it belongs. It contains a brief, a bibliography, and reprints of articles containing the various arguments for and against the parcels post; also, information in regard to the present status of the parcels post in this and other countries. For the convenience of the reader, the articles have been arranged in three main divisions: the General, Affirmative, and Negative Discussions. The bibliography is similarly divided. It is believed that debaters and others wishing material on this subject will find this book both convenient and helpful.

September, 1911.

CONTENTS

BRIEF ix

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliographies xiii

General References xiii

Affirmative References xvi

Negative References xix