Show S PRESS PARAGRAPHS The Tho newspapers believe that magazines magazines maga maga- zint's should pay fair posta postage e rates Philadelphia Press Sixty per cent of the tho second class matter is magazines and other periodicals not including newspapers so that it is apparent at a glance even to tho the casual reader that the papers aro are not much nuch at fault for the deficit If If tho the magazine and advertising advertis advertis- ing monthlies were were made made mado to pay proper proper- ly for tho the pr ile s 's they enjoy joy the tho deficit deS deS- cit would not be worth mentioning Baltimore News Rural free freo cry doesn't doesn t pay but nobody proposes to stop it The second class mail mall privilege is is of vast benefit to the mass of people Before interfering with either the tho pub pub- lie lic wants to see ee what happens if the railroad companies are aro forced to carry the mails at reasonable rate and if a parcels post is established in connection with the rural delivery deli system Atlanta Constitution The question is simply this this Do or do not the railroads railroads rail rail- roads receive more mote from the government for transporting say pounds of mail 1000 miles mills than they they receive receive from the tho express companies for transporting a similar quantity quantity- of freight the same distance The statement has be been n made from one end of the the- country to theother theother the tho other that upon the basis of given weight and distance the government gO pays more than Ulan do do- dothe the the- express companies com corn panics for the same service ce New York Times President Taft refers to the function of newspapers and periodicals for the sJ spread read of intel intel- but hut it may certainly be bo doubted doubt doubt- ed whether considered under this aspect aspect as as- tho the beneficent service of the government government gov gov- should be bo extended at so great greata a cost to the immense weight o of ot advertising advertising adver adver- matter which h many of the magazines magazines maga maga- zincs contain As Mr Taft says there is in those publications a much higher proportion of advertising to reading matter than in newspapers New York Tribune Congress has been digesting for last the last three or four years reports of ofa a rious commissions recommending readjustments of rates on mail m mutter matter and nd w en it acts it is likely like like- ly Iv to adhere in hi tho nain ain to the tr traditional traditional di policy of f favoring second class matter so far as as it it- itcan can be reasonably favored while reducing the excessive rates charged for for- forit it it- by the tho railroads and in the second class as President Taft has suggested between newspapers which cost relatively relatively rela reIn little to handle and antI magazines on which the tho great part of tho the present loss of revenue occurs Boston Post The government pays tho the railroads more than more than 9 cents a pound poundon on the average for the tho handling and transportation of this matter charging chargin the public pubic only 1 cent a pound It Jt would seem that in the ordinary course of business administration the government govern govern- ment reent should insist upon better rates from tho the railroads rather than raise its rates to the people There aro are abuses of this mailing mailing- privilege of course but here also a business administration of the service should be able to effect re reo re- re form New Orleans Democrat Times Democrat The magazines are costing the government two and a half times as as much a a poun pound for transportation as the newspapers This rate should should- be equalized equalize and anti it would save sae the postoffice annually annually annually an an- on this item alone But it is in some other classes of class mail quasi periodicals that the greatest loss lossis lossis lossis is incurred amounting to 2 A largo large portion of this stuff could be bo refused admission to the mails without any anyone one suffering suffering-in in the least Denver Republican n Many so called magazines and periodicals are arc arc in fact little more than collections of advertisements advertisements advertise advertise- ments only en enough reading matter enclosed enclosed en en- closed t to give ive color olof to their claim for privilege as se second nd class The loss on transportation n S of this class is about and most readers will share hare in in President Tafts Taft's doubt as to the trie wisdom of a policy which contributes contributes contrib contrib- utes so largo large a a. a subsidy and requires ad ad- taxation td to meet it Newspapers pers aro not in the tho same samo category They contain a a much smaller of f advertising matter than the magazines and the tho average distance over which they arc are delivered to customers is less than one third one third of that over which magazines magazines mag mag- and miscellaneous periodicals are hauled s S u |