Show PROSPERITY SHOWN B REPORTS OF POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS The increase In the revenues of ot the department shows clearly the erly o of our people and the In Increasing Increasing In- In creasing activity of or the thc business of oC the H F country The l receipts of oC the depart- depart on li pace t t I J IJ Injurious Trusts Continued from page 1110 2 2 ment meat for the fiscal year ending June Tune last amounted to an increase c of over ocr the preceding preceding pre pre- ceding year the largest Increase known In the history of the postal service The ma magnitude of or this Increase will best appear from rom the fact that the entire entire entire en en- tire postal receipts for the year car 1860 amounted to hut but Rural free delivery service Is Js no longer long long- er In the experimental stage It has become a fixed policy polk The results following following fol rol- fol- fol lowing Its Us Introduction have fully funy Justified Jus jus- titled the Congress ress In the large appropriations appropriations made for Its establishment and extension The av average rage yearly early increase increase increase in in- crease In receipts In the rural districts of ot the country countr Is about 2 per cent We e are now able by actual results re re- re- re suits to show that where rural free delIen delivery de do- livery lI service has been established to such an extent as to enable u us to make comparisons the yearly earl Increase has been upward of or 10 per cent Success of Rural Kural Delivery On November No 1 I l 1002 O rural free tree delivery routes had been established and were In tn operation covering co about third one-third of the territory of the United States available for ru rural al free ree dellI delivery dell ery cry service There arc are now POSY awaiting I I the action of or the department petition I and applications for the c establishment of oC IS additional routes This Rho s conclusively th want which the establishment establishment of ot the service er has met and the need of ot further extending extending- It as rapidly as possible It Is justified both b by the financial results and b by the practical benefits to our OUI rural population It brings the men who live Ji on the soil Into Int close relations with the active e business s world It keeps the farmer fanner In dailY dally touch with the It Is a potential educational force It enhances the value of or farm property makes farm life me far pleasanter and less Isolated and will do much to check the undesirable current from Crom country countr to city It I Is to be hoped that the Con Congress rc s swill will make liberal appropriations for the continuance of ot the service already es established es- es ta bUshed and for Its It further extension |