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Show SPENDING MONEY TO MAKE IT. Benjamin Franklin's Illustration of Sound Business Policy. Tho good policy of letting riches lly to bring more back Is quaintly Illustrated Illus-trated by Henjamin Franklin, whllo postmaster general, In telling ot the American postofQce as It was before tho revolution. In his lulmltnble way he says-: "Tho American offlco never had hltiiorto paid anything to that of Great Britain. We were to hnvo $3,000 a year If we could mako that sum out ot the profits of tho office. To do this a variety of Improvements were necessary. Somo of theso were Inevitably at tlrst expensive, so that In tlie first four years the offlco becamo be-camo about ?4,50O In debt to us. Hut it soon began to repay us and beforo I was displaced by a freak of the ministers min-isters wo had brought It to yield three times as much clear revenue to tho crown as tho postofflce of Ireland." |