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Show A SIGN OF PROSPERITY There I no better criterion of general gen-eral pio-pciity than the po-tal business. busi-ness. When times are good the postal revenue Incieascs, and vice veia. The report or the postmaster general shows that ror the year ending July 1, IS'.Ci, the receipts from postal revenue were 971 (.17 1, 00(1. For the year ending .Inly 1, HKIJ. they weie .?1 tl),.i.S.,HM.), an Inciease of ." per cent, dining seven years of continuous Republican rule. Dining the year ending .Inly 1, ISO.", the receipts from the money order business weie sJSl'J.tKlS; for the year ending July 1. ItHVJ. they were $1,-8S!)..St7, $1,-8S!)..St7, an Increase or VM per cent, dining seven years or Republican prosperity. pros-perity. The postmaster general In Ids annual an-nual report Tor 1!)irj said: "The Increase In-crease In the postal revenues attests tho wondeifiil prosperity of the people peo-ple anil the activity of business Interests Inter-ests throughout the county." It would not have boon proper for the postmaster general in an olliclal rv-port rv-port to attiiliute this wonderful prosperity pros-perity In IPtrj to the operation of tho DIngley tariff law and other Republican Republi-can ineitsuies, but such was the fact. |