| Show 111 POSTAL btItJCC A variety of comment has been elicited elicit-ed by the deficit of nearly eleven and a half million dollais In the postal department de-partment for IS07 Tho general tenor of utlcrnices prominent newspapers upon erne Phase of the subject the cost of carrying the molls in ppnrsely settled legions la I to the effect thnt the country can afford to be reasonably gent ous towards those regions Recently rirsl Assistant Postmaster General Heath In answer to a New York newspaper ns to how the postal ccrvKo can bo best extended teplled as follows I Ily n liberal development of the free slithery Pervice so lIS to include nit tar its Possible all classes nr the ommunllj Whether living In towns villages mining settlements lumber stairs or on farina 2 Ily the extension mil cheapening oC the money order and registration a Ioms 13 llj the adoption ot It parcels post In at 1ist a limited 01 tent and I Dy a onntllluance 01 the 1Ian at onttnllditlng contiiruoun postottlees so its 10 ahollch nlo offles oull can eentratis utiVerilsioll and restionsibil liy liyMr Mr Heath H I a great believer In en lunlns tho free delivery system and shows that this country In far behind portions of Kuropu In this regard though the United States carries n letter farther tor the cost than does any other government In tho world A letter may bn sent 68j I mile from Key West Florid to Circle City Alaska for two cents Many papeis are complaining of the fact that publishing houses are nl lowed to end books through thcmaila for one tent per pound on condition that the books tire issued ns and are culled numbers o t some periodical The mails are burdcerd with enormous quantities of such matter and the actual ac-tual cost to the government for transporting trans-porting It Is I far In excess of the late charged The low late of one cent per pound Was mad on newspapers magazines ete on the theory that these chlcUa of Intelligence chould ba furnished to tire people as cheat ly as possible but It wan not contemplated that book which tire much In every crime of tho word should be carried lit this rate The subterfuge of collin them ntnn boils of n serial does not alter the equities or the case Repeated attempts to correct this abuse have failed because 1 be-cause of tho Influence la Congrets f which publishing houses have been I able to exert Another source of expense to tho government to the enrrloge at theccnt rate of vast calamities of advertising matter which purports to be regular Issues or continuous publications but tho sol object ot which Ito give advertisements ad-vertisements ns wide a circulation ns possible Congressman Loud of California Cali-fornia In 1 a bill bearing his name and which provoked wIde dlcuhron throughout tho country In 1808 attempted at-tempted to purge the postal service of the abuse named and other abuses butt but-t It 0 opposition to his bill was too strong and it failed It Is I however only a matter qf time when tonlethlng will have to be done to correct tho abuses fiom which the postal service Is I suffering Because the deficits In It are annually increasing while statistics show that It flagrant evils to which It is subjected were remedied It would be nearly It not wholly selrsiutalnlng |
