Show UNABLE TO SEE THE FUTURE shortsighted short sighted english statesman de bounced penny postage of all the wild and visionary schemes of which I 1 have ever hear or read it Is the most extraordinary that was the official comment made by lord lichfield postmaster general of england on roa rowland land hills proposal to establish a uniform postal rite ot of a penna throughout the united xing king dom and that was at a time within tho tha memoir ot of some men still thing only 71 years ago despite lord lich fields condemnation of at it the scheme was within three years an established fact and men who in their childhood might have seen and read the first let ever sent from one part of ung eng land to another tor for a penny may this year see eee and read letters sent around the globe and practically to aery part ol of the english speaking world for the same small fee the achievement will voll be not only a most impressive rebuke of the shortsighted and timorous adain admin intrator of two generations ago but also an equally impressive demon stra tion of the constantly accelerating progress r ess of c civilization I 1 |