Show UNABLE TO SEE THE FUTURE Short Sighted Short English Statesman Denounced Denounced Denounced De De- Penny Postage Of all the wild and visionary schemes schemes' of which I have ever heard or read it is Js the most extraordinary That was the official comment made by Lord Lichfield postmaster general of England on Rowland Hills Hill's proposal to establish a uniform postal rate of a penny throughout the United King King- dom And that was at a a. time within the memory of some men still living only 71 years ago Despite Lord Lichfield's Lich Lich- fields field's condemnation of It ft the scheme was within three years an established fact And men who in their childhood might have seen and read the first letters letters letters let let- ever sent from one part of England England England Eng Eng- land to another for a a. penny may this year see and read letters sent around the globe and practically to every part of the speaking English-speaking world for the same small fee The achievement will willbe willbe be not only a most impressive rebuke of the sighted short and timorous adminIstrator administrator administrator admin admin- of two generations ago but also an equally Impressive demonstration tion of the constantly accelerating progress of civilization |