Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-25
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FHOSTBURG. MD, APRIL %, 1874
Free Circulation Of Newspaper.
j. Is. ODER. Editor.

Free Circulation Of Newspapers.
Orr subscriber, will I've glad t. learn that
the House of representatives, on Monday
last, suspended the rules. and passed by
1874 yeas to A. nays, the bill authorizing the
free circulation of newspapers through the
mails IN the county wherein plblshci.-
HghhiHd NetcS.
1t is a sad thing that you do not know
any better. Why should editors have
privileges that others do not cniovg What
sense is there in carrying newspapers about
the country free, and charging for letters :
Why should not grocery keepers have the
free use of the mails to distribute coffee
tea, sugar, and salt. if the publishers OF
weekly newspapers are to be dcad-headed
The fact is that newspaper deadhcading il
the meanest part of-the ranking abuse
CtAcinRdh C0D,neRcG.
Quite right, Mr. Halstcad Let every
body pay his share. No exemptions to
anybody from postagrbor taxes, is our doc
trine.-CumbcrIand Daass Ae'rs.
The difference of circumstance and SEN
,imcnt upon this suhiccs exist only between
the publishers of daily and weekly papers.
The post office department. has six times
the work to 90 for the former that it has
for the latter, and knowing the unrcasona-
blcncss of n claim to '.ff9e circulation fi +
themselves, they characterize this rel passage
of law which should never have been set
aside as the 'mcaneSt part Of the frankng
abuse" etc. Thus, a single institution re-
CARDS the action of the House unfayorably
g. ., fpIc IL
difficult to ascertain why suburban" or
rural" papers, should exist at all. And
when these obtain some advantage by viz
tue of their less freqlen: issues or other
circumstance, the favor is looked upon as
something stolen from crib which, if I'M
available to the mctropolitans, should be to
the plebcians ofjournalism also.
But the daiics have the least to do with this
matter, Notwithstanding aie frantic intcrro-
gatories and virtuous assertions of the above
paragraphs If Congress has favored any
body i'll this matter, it is the people who are
thus relieved of an onca3tls tax upon their
nearest sources of current attenuation
people, mainly; who have not the time TO
read dailies. On the other hand, those gen
orally who h0re leisure to devote 10 dai lies
have also the ability to pay the expenses of
delivery. The complaint made against the
"trcc circulation of weekly papers in the
counties where published" as working dis
elimination against daiies is, therefore, Il
mere distortion and sophism Of llibcral and
intolcrant origin.
These same parties who pirate so virtu-
ously of ''privileges If 9dilprs that others
do not enjoy and Everybody paying his
share" are really, in nine cases of ten, not
aversc to dead beading. They don't hest
tate to stretch themselves upon trstclass
car seat, or ~ulp ua,gn Il hotel dinner, on
dcad-hcad tickets, when they know their
ncighbors are daily paying for their I'M
bought and undescwcd privileges. They
know, too, that printing stock in many
States is exempt from assessment, and that,
with fat government and state printing
thrown in to condiment the luxury of dead
head taX-paying, they have really good
time getting paid for paging nothing. Con-
idering which it would I've wiser and more
commendabe if they kept their spuriously
righteous indignation on the dead head
business securely bottled and COrkcd