Show FACTS ABOUT U S MAIL FAVORING ONE CENT POSTAGE advocates Advocat os of one cent postage de clale that in simple justice the government must establish the lower late at once under present conditions first class mall la is paying a surplus to the government or of over a yar y ar although it squires wo two rents cents to mail a letter anywhere in the united ft tates it is 18 estimated estimate ci that it actual 1 ly the government about one cent to carry it the post office department has always been atea with a view to carry mall mail at cost at the present allue the department le cives on first class clasa mall a revenue ct at least 84 cents per pound equal to lo ibao per ton thus m dking it a proult of ab per cent although first blass mall supplies sup lest less than one eighth of the total to tal tonnage of the malls mails yet it pays 76 pir cent of the total ref revenue nue ahls Is the principal reason why by the advocates of QUO olie mat lunt postage claim the late should le be tut cut in two business men say they would have thor postage accounts cut exactly in half were the new rates inaudi In augi r ratel ate I 1 at the present time they clatin claim an ait enormous deficit Is caused un on second class mall through the carbage to extreme points throughout the country of magazine mall magazines some of them charf char alag ilag ironi to a pale page for ao are tarried carried throughout the united for one cent per pound or 20 a ton comp compared axed to 1680 per ton which busl business a s men pay on letters the large proper tion of second class mall matter carried throughout the country is said to be weekly and monthly maga alie lne matter on which publishers are making vast profits IOU ou pay more than ninety cents per pound for carrying letters about the united fa tates although it costs lobe lofas than halt half that sum to transport thom declares assistant post gnaster beneral tie james J li ritt 1 I jo cl correct or this manifest injustice we in tend to ask congress to lowet lower first class mail from two cents to one cent and to so eo adjust other classes as to put them on a cost paying lesii 1 certainly believe that one cent letter postage will pay it if rates are adjusted during the fiscal year of 1911 the government made a profit of 65 on first class mall mail a profit of 29 on third laks mall mail and a surplus of abul jil on four fourth class mall while it sulf suffered ered a loss lose of 68 on oil acrond econ class delass mall mail |