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Show 1 ject, Kays: 'Tbee figures are cod-eeryatlve. cod-eeryatlve. The rural free delivery .wagons win probably earn $10 a day Instead of o. And there you are." . ' The only question 1 one of Justice to the magazine publishers, a question that has already been presented to congress and which will be determined, determ-ined, perhaps, at an early day. Cheap letter pomade, easy and inexpensive communication between the citizens of a country, an advantage to commerce, com-merce, and If It can be established without Injustice to any large Interest It should be adopted. Another nib saving will be affected affect-ed If the franking privilege U restrict- I ed to legitimate purpose?. The postmaster post-master general sugicsts reforms In this direction, reforms that should have been adopted long ago. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Telegraph. rw- PUTTING THE P. O. 'ON A BUSINESS BASIS Postmaster-General Hitchcock if quite right when he says In bis annual an-nual report that "If the magazines could be required to pay what It costs the government to carry their advertising advertis-ing pages the department revenues would soon grow large enough to wai-iant wai-iant one-cent postage on first-class mail. It Is estimated that 300,000,000 pounds of mugazlne advertising now goes through the mails at the newspaper news-paper rate of 1 cent a pound, aud that If it were forced to pay S cents a pound the Increase would be $21,000,-000, $21,000,-000, more than enough to cover the present deficit. Add to that $5 a day per wagon for parcels post income and the !0.o0i wagons now In use would bring in $2uu,0u0 a day., equal to $60,0w0,noo a year, less the cost of handling, which would not be large, ns the rural routes are already established estab-lished and the carriers have fixed salaries. sal-aries. This would more than provide enough revenue to warrant a reduction reduc-tion in letter postage, for it should bo borne In mind that there would be an cuormous Increase In letter-w ritJng should the cut be made. When letter postage was reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents an ounce, thero was an Increase of almost 10 per cent. This Increase must be reckoned, reck-oned, less the cost of extra handling for the output. Charlo3 A. Bartcher. who has been engaged in postal re-fcrm re-fcrm work for eight years, writing to the Evening Telegraph upon this sub- |