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Show Postal Card System. The poetal card system in England scorns to be mooting with success only as a oon-vouient oon-vouient moans of anonymous slander, black-mailing and insult. That it is of auv material benelit. or t.hnt. ik un. cures auy partioular advantage to correspondents, cor-respondents, has not boon demonstrated. demonstra-ted. Tho Loudon Era, speaking upon tbis subject, says; From tho comiuonoemeot of tho postal card system to tho present time wo havo heard of nothing but libels, luipertiuein shop-giria in the Burlington Burling-ton arcade havo gratuitously insulted ladies of title. lrritablo gentlemen havo used post cards for tho worst purpose.. Every miserable little tradesman who owes a grudgo, and every scoundrel who daro not openly say what ho thinks, tlies to tho halfpenny half-penny pst oard to gratify a moan feeling of icveugo. This it; no I an encouraging showing for tho advocates of tho postal oard system, and yet it is a very emphatic illustration of tho legitimate result of its introduction. People who havo occasion oc-casion to correspond, either upon business bus-iness or personal matters, havo no po-ouliar po-ouliar or pressing desire to publish the ooatt'Qts of their communications. The idea that for the sake of saving a cent or two postage, letter writers can bo induced to patronize postal cards is so evideutly erroneous, that it is to bo hoped our own government will not make a trial of tho system. Liko tho so loudly vaunted "cheap postal (ele-graph," (ele-graph," it is a dv-luion and a snare. |