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Show OFFICIALS OVERWORK THE MAILS V7 MILE proposing to increase newspaper post-age, post-age, the mails continue to be loaded down by the congressional franking privilege, and the press bureaus of all the departments. Here is the morning mail with press matter in twelve large envelopes all without postage, most of them stamped "letter mail," and ajl asking space of the newspapers to boost what?. Another treasury department bond issue, the bureau of Entomology, (bugology,) department of Agriculture on cold storage of potatoes, (the game of the middle man,) and one boosting the national parks. Department of Commerce sends it ten sheets on exports to Russia, Geological Survey boosts oil production while the legal department prosecutes drilling for oil, while another tells us how high coal may go. Then one bulletin tells how to hold cotton for, the highest price and another tells how we must1 exterminate the pink boll worn to win the European Europ-ean war all information to help cotton speculators specula-tors get wiser. The Rureau of Markets is given $2,000,000 merely for astarter, the emergency extension is opening deadhead mail that is sent out from an army of publicity officials which no one prints and no one reads, and the business man and private citizen pays the bills. |