The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15
st. Louis and Chicago.

Because st. Louis has been growing
rapidly for the last ten years, theidea has
gone abroad that she had aroused from
her long slumber, and was actually be-
coming q great, enterprising and pro-
| gressive commercial metropolis in the
same sense that Chicago is. But there
is reason to believe that this pleasing
fancy is delusion. She no more rivals
Chicago now than she did decade ago.
| Indeed, instead Of becoming o success
full rival she is unconsciously assuming
the relation to Chicago which Phila-
delphia holds to New York. She is be-
coming great overgrown manufacture
ing city, while her commercial i'm
portance is comparatively insignificant
Philadelphia is not rival of New York
in any sense, although she has an enor-
NOUS and constantly-increasing popula-
ton. It is simply great hive Of work
lngmen. New York is a metropolis, q
center, a capital. Everybody goes
there. She is the throbbing heart of
the nation. She is the metropolis of
everything. Her ships sail on every
sea, and her connections reach TO the
ends of the earth. Nobody wants to
know what is going on at Philadelphia :;
but everybody is eager to learn the price
OF gold, or stocks, or grain, or cotton, or
dry goods al New York.
What New York and Philadelphia are
to the country and to each other, so are
st. Louis and Chicago to each other
and the West. Chicago is metropolis.
st. Louis is vast congregation of work
ingmen. Chicago has great merchants
in the sense in which Tyre, and Carthage,
and Genoa, and Venice had merchants;
men who venture their fortunes in bold
enterprise to distant regions, which, like
bread upon the waters, returns after
many days with rich harvest. st.
Louis has no merchants in this higher
sense. She only has local shop-keepers.
Chicago builds railroads and controls
them in her own interest. st. Louis
never built railroad, and controls few
Of them built for her. Chicago is a
great grain market. ST. Louis is not,
although she is quite as convenient to
the grain region as Chicago, and has as
good railroad and better water connec-
tion with the seaboard. She does not
even control the single barge line which
she owns i'll her own interest. It is kill
ing the infant grain trade by trying to
make fortune from it before it can
stand alone.-Nee0 Orleans Times. s.
Proposed Change in Rates OF Newspaper
Postage.
A. H. Bissell, Of the law division of
4ho ho r.
a long time had charge of the contro-
verified questions concerning what con-
stitutes legitimate newspaper mail mat
ter, has addressed communication to
the Postmaster General on the subject
of classification of rates of postage.
suggesting q new plan for the registra-
tion of second-class matter, under two
rates, to be denominated privileged !"
and ordinary" These suggestions have
been approved by Postmaster General
Key, and will be incorporated in his
forthcoming annual report. The plan
proposed is that all publications claim
ing to be rated as second-class mail mat
ter shall be submitted to the department.
by samples, quarterly or semi-annually,
for examination, and, If found to be mat
ter exclusively in print, issued from
regular publication Office, designed for
public use, and devoted to the publica-
ton and discussion of current news, and
topics either general or specific, shall be
admitted upon payment of an annual
fee of ST. for each publication to the
privileged rates of or cents per pound,
according to frequency of issue, the
same as now charged for regular news
papers, magazines, etc. All other mat
ter now embraced in second class, such
as advertising sheets, reprints of books.
etc., is to pay the ordinary rate now
charged for third-class matter, which is
/ cent for each three ounces.
ADELINA PATTI has received So, 600, 900
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