Show CLASS SECOND MATTER t. t Every year ear there II is a deficit In iii the revenues of the department and nd the doctors of finance who arc trying try try- Ing to cure t the e country of the ills His that governments arc are heir to arc are looking for COl the cause In general they have decided that the el Very largo large amount of or second class mall mali matter matter- carried b by bythe bythe the country causes cause thu tho loss They hold hold that man many papers arc are not legitimately entitled to the tho newspaper paper rates that magazines such buch as those published at Augusta Maine and which contain largo large numbers o of advertisements that hat lead to a 1 order mail business ss arc are not properly within the privileges of the tho rule We c dont don't think th they are arc Tho The see sec c- c class ond-class cla s rate rato was Val devised de for or the time enS en en- 1 S of ot newspapers The lower rate has had the desired re result The bur burden en on the Government for Cor genuine newspaper circulation b by the thc malls mails I Is not largo largi or oi oppre oppressive Tho The burden buren Inflicted by br million half cIrculation circulation tion of or the tho family stor story paper papers that print rot in tho the place of or romance and amI advertisements of oC fakes Cake In the place of news Is a l burden It compels the Government Go to carry a newspaper an average overage of a thousand miles for less than the tho true cost of carrying It one mile That sort of or thing thins would causo cause a a. deficit in any business Of OC course It swamps the postal service One of le defenders of oC the practice of or giving low rates to publications that are not truly within the rule said In Ina Ina ina a recent speech In New York I I 1 am decidedly of oC the opinion that the department could coul well weli afford to carry papers newspapers and magazines free of charge charse If IC need be In order to get the business the they bring We e have received from two Insertions of oC a 66 IIno lino a advertisement In the theS S S I replies about two thirds of which paid pail two cents cent each balance one ono cent These were answered and samples sent b by us and three cents postage pal paid on each to M say nothing nothing- of or the further correspondence we have had with these people The above figures speak for themselves That is in part true but true but in part pait only The Tho carrying of the advertisement advertisement advertise advertise- ment mont at n ii loss ma may bring an answer at first class rates which pays the Government Go a profit But nut It also brings a sale to the publisher of tho the paper for he ho sells the article ordered by mail The Time Maine publications have been placed by their theil own publishers In the category of merchants with Interests In the thc stores for which the they advertise And AntI tho profit on the tho business goes into the coffers of the publishers The Tho Government Is carrying their mall moll at ata ata ata a loss an and helping them In business It Is to the Injury o of legitimate mer mer- just as it Is unfair to legitimate legi lesl- newspapers And it Is an expense cx- cx pense upon the whole country countr for which tho the whole county gets sets no adequate ade ae quate compensation It Is Js to be hoped time the Government may one day lay compel an observance of right and fairness In this matter and that papers that are not properly and legitimately newspapers bo be excluded from the benefits of reduced carriage In the malls mails |