Show UNABLE TO SEE THE FUTURE shortsighted english statesman de bounced penny postage ot of all the wild and visionary schemes of which I 1 have ever heard or read it Is the most extraordinary that was the official comment made by lord lichfield postmaster general ot of england on rowland hill s proposal to establish a uniform postal rate of a penny throughout the united king dom and that was at a time within the memory of some men still living only 71 years ago despite lord lich fields field s condemnation of 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 eng land to another for a penny may this year see and read letters sent around the globe and practically to every part of the english speaking world tor for the same small tee fee the achievement will be not only a most impressive rebuke of the short sighted and timorous admin intrator of two generations ago but also an equally impressive demon stra tion of the constantly accelerating progress of civilization |