Show FIRST BETTER THEN CHEAPER it Is 13 eaid that one cf tho the ambitions of postmaster general lVa wanamaker was to reduce during his term of office tho the rate of domestic postage from two cents to ona one cent Ano another if wo we may judge from interviews recently published is to eccaro secure cheaper ocean postage poe tage a matter which is attracting also the attention cf of foreign postal authorities theeo these are both very 1 commendable ambitions in a public officer having or supposed to I 1 have the welfare of the country arheart at heart bat but we imagine therease there ther eAre are few amoor among these who read these lines that will be inclined to accord to mr wanamaker the measure of crafto t I 1 which bis project might under certain I 1 cir circumstances c um stances merit with the P data class of people referred to the reasoning I 1 will be something like this W wears we are quite willing will to pay two cents each tor for the transmission 0 M our letters wilbia the confines of 0 the I 1 union and do not demur to paying 1 five cents for the carrying of oar our 4 letters to foreign lands I 1 the accommodation is chea cheap at the price named bat but what does it avail us to write or our friends to I 1 write letters which the poverty or parsimony ot of the government prevents it from properly handling 7 would it no not be batter to pay five cents on domestic and ten cents on foreign letters andri euro sure of their I 1 proper delivery would it not ba belter better to haduca tha the number of letters about one lulf half without reducing tho the amount ex pendal in ia their slon sion barely one utter promptly 71 bandied handled by the estal is worth I 1 a dozen that thal nevar neva r mich their daatio nation Thi this logic might t be all lost upon 0 mr and bis his department and yet it is incontrovertible P desirable ai as ba be the redaction reduction in the rates it daos not W bagin gia to compare V in ia desirability with efficiency in ia r 7 the service sir Wari wanamaker amaker is a gooder good enough fough business basi noss man to know I 1 I 1 I 1 that the big successes are bleed upon an infinite number ot of smaller successes and the people of ogden will first begin to appreciate cheaper postage when they havo have bed bcd tho the I 1 lege ot of enjoying better postage at the present rates I 1 |