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Show Uncle Sam Printer Uncle Sam's Post Office Department, which it is estimated will have a deficit of $100,000,000 during the present fis. a! year, will continue in the business of competing with local printers in th? furnishing of printed envelopes, having recently awarded a contract involving more than $15,000,000 in this connection This means that one concern will have a monopoly of this amount of gross business, a large portion of which will be diverted from country publishers who are practically the only class of business men with whom the government govern-ment competes in this manner. The injustice of this practice Is all the more marked because the .i inting is done for an additional charge of only a few cents a thousand over the cost of the plain envelopes -a charge so small that it covers only a fractu.n of , the cost. The envelopes alone are priced higher than necessary in order to cover a portion of the loss on the printing, but the customer thinks he Is petting a bargin because of this Juggling Juggl-ing of price quotations. Having been victims of this unfair competition for half a century, it Is little wonder that country editors are practically a unit in opposition to government opera tion of business enterprises. en-terprises. All fair-minded business men should assist the National Editorial Editor-ial Association In its efforts to eliminate elimin-ate this Socialisic and un-American practice. There would be as much Justification Justifica-tion for the operation of a chain of retail stores by the government a.s there is for the retail envelopes in competition competi-tion with local printers. |