Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-12-06
For the sny.l
ocean Penny Postage.

Mr. EDIroR ---Let ME beg you to admit into
some corner Of your paper, few thoughts on
Ocean Penny Postages a subject winch must IN
terest directly and deeply many OF your readers
and millions on both sides of the Atlantic. FER
hans YOU are aware that the project OF reducing |
the transit charge on letters, from any port OF
Great Britain TO any port beyond the sea, 10 one
Deagau or two cents, has been mooted IN TINS coun
try for several wears. 1t has now assumed the
character of a measure of urgent necessity, ana
vast Importance and is about b. be brought TOT
ward in Parliament, backed by almost the uhall-
nous sympathy and suffrage OF all potluea par
ties and OF all eases OF society In lacG no Up
position to this great postal reform has mahliest
ed itself in any quarter 1t seems at once 10 con
ciliate and win to its advocacy all interests Inc
sudden and immense emigration 10 Aus.iali1 is
within the last few months, with the ole gun
stream of human beings, flowing with unalmih-
;Sbca r,rrent toward America, has brought the
subject home to millions, during the last year,
who thought il did not affect them before Ahe
poorer and industrial classes OF society, WHO sup
NV the largest tributaries of this swift running
49, ~ sps;rrat;on look for the realization OF
| Nsesn Penny Postage as boon OF lnesumaole
| xalnc The commercial class of community pc
gin To understand its Importance, ana 10 utse 40
/ adoption. Every interest, every ihnuehee' e ~
| disnosition and tendency Of the times, is IN us
| f,vor But. to make an Ocean Penny FostaSe
! un;vprsol coextensive with the globe, the sympa-
| thy and concurrence of the people ana govern
| r,ents of all maritime countries IN Chrlseehuoni
/ are II.
4 go, nronosed whatever be the distance or dlrec-
+;on ar under whatever flag letter may De con-
veved the single service of its mere transit rom
any mort of one country to any port OF anotnei
nonst he performed for one penny. Ii the Dratlen
mail nacke perform this service on letter from
any MORT of Great Britain to any port beyond the
son at which they touch for one penny. the Amer
lean mail packets, must do the same. Inc I ,
steamer that conveys letter across the Nleul.s
rsnean. or the German across the Baltic, OF the
Danish across the sound TO Sweden, must eac1
,erforn, this single service for a penny. oeVeral
| F,overnnnents and nations, then, must move III
4 tb;s matter. before the whole scheme IS consum
mated. But, Great Britain and the United otate'
! can establish this system over more than thIee
! fnnrths of the globe, without the aid or concur
rence of any other governments Whatever rms
! land can alone establish it between LNerpool "A
: Halifax and will do it, doubtless, ere long, an
between her and all her colonial ports oe9ohu VI
sea in every direction, and to every distance
h And if she can convey letter from Liverpool
d Halifax, or to Hong Kong, or to Australia ior
= nennv. cannot the United States transport OH
: from New York to Liverpool, Havre, Bremen
uar.na for the same? What singular anomal
Il would be- if the transit charge on letter no
Il Tivernool to Quebec should be tloo cents ana u
I, same service on one frsm Boston to LVerpo
Gu should be three cents 1t is probably the iaS
nd than .re-telttS Of all the correspondence ol "
world that crosses the sea, is conveyed IN Drlti
:. and American vessels. If, therefore, these U
y C,overnments can be brought, by a pressure
M nnbic opinion, to unite in establishing an zee
ar. Penny Postage, so for as it lies IN their unlt
mower. they could alone confer the BOOM alln'
10 the full extent of its blessing and behehceh
MS upon the family of man.
in. Yours sincerely,
ELIHU BURRITT
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