The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-09-24

postage reaches every cabin as well az every
castle. Why. then. charge forty eight times "a
mucI Tor letters as for newspapers conveyed
.he sumo d Stance In the same bov2 Would
hmt sixteen times rs much answer the most
srtspins Injustice?
AK, Tnc letter postage amounts to about 30 per
matter conveyed. The letters aic un7ustly
o Thar TO m mi. Hp Tor loss on other matter
United States. Daring the last fiscal year there
w Wn i Issued OF noItnse STAMPS, postal cards
ions or ~ for each person: OF these nearly
three HUNDRED and ATTY millions were postal
there were not moro than nbouttcn letters sent
IN twelve months for every person in the
county, With - POSTAGE at one cent there
letter to every person every week This
Increase; if -. not achieved in, the first
como in the second and third and largely in.
crease every year by Increased population in
Greaird Intelligence. and increased desire to
6 6Ry thc i9e!ins OF communicating with each
ptncr. Ten letters each per annum. ut 3 cents
brings revenue. of eighteen millions but ilfty
vi thirty millions of dollars. Tho additional
expense 81 carrying five letters instead OF one
would ndd very little to the expense. 1t is tho
TONS OF documents sent free: the tons upon
tons Of matter conveyed at 9 cents pound, and
mershandlse c9nySyed at quarter tho rates Of
Il the matter of tho third and fourth classes
mat run w thc cost Tor hand ins,. 4 s,cnu,-
o onao or IN fIroaI Train would make slight diner
stead OF one. or package Of sixty for twenty
Our oHr postal pos system wants oyerhauling.. ,fhe
except on letters Between the m and
poor claimants for pensions and other dues to
ing an Agricultural Report or document should
pay Tor II a. least newspaper postage. Mem
postage. If this were done 1t would Tighten
NE weight OF mail matter even II ten or II hun:
drcd letters were sent for one that is conveyed
now. The saving in the printing of useless
documents would more than compensate for
the Increase of cost of handling and conveying
ten letters to one.
Some advocate sunday free newspapers now
paying two cents u pound, do not think tho
nSa pryeap dst pr Sem d dspe th
money fast enough. But the great masses of
poor tailoring mon sensibIy feel the difference
one letter week ench it would be n small loaf
OF bread saved each month. We spent some
checks and patent medicines. viii any one.
particularly of the laborlng masses get his med
tue Treasury on these, articles! A reduction on
letter postage from three to one cents would
lishieh the expenses OF every family in the
doubt hb whether reduction to two cents
4 reduction to one cent would be. Why make
two bites of n cherry? Does any one doubt
that we, we shall yet have penny postage,? Why
have, your machinery adapted to the two cen mt
rate before the people would be clamoring for
tho, picture Of George Washington which
Will carry z half ounce letter to any part of the
postal cards will SIN be in demand in greater
number than they are now for messages which
convey no secrets and eXpose no family. shame.
but the poor people who have to write their
private affairs on postal cards have n right to
have them conveyed under seal or in closed
envelopes. II We had u smaller coin in use
than one cent we could afford to reduce our
letter postage to that. and it would pay in n
a Sr nrp mn Sss % n San
half an ounce to be sold at the price of a postal
card, prepared with mucilage for sealing like
can write their messages OF business or love
and seal it without having to buy paper or
II we have an honest administration OF the
service such reforms can b. worked as greatly
to llghten the expenses The cost of railway
can he diminished. salaries can be cut down.
and with the application of business principles
70 the postal service the people can have n uni:
form penny postage at very little increase OF
cost to the government
:, But even II the penny postage did not pay.
the people have a right to the reduction. Does
the State Department pay? Does the War De-
partment. or the Navy Department. or the De-
partnents OF the nristocracy. The Post Office
Is the department of the masses. Lot us
abolish all pensions, civil and military. except
to poor soldiers and sailors. Let us reduce the
EXPENSES OF our army ana navy ana keep hiver
bounds. and YOU will be able TO send all your
letters AZ less than one cent. by the ten
twenty millions OF dol lars reduction which you
can easily make in these hotbeds OF aristo-
cratic and monarchical folly.
pound of letters carried from New York to
BROOKLYN or Newark or Jersey City, costs
ninety-siN cents; at one cent ii would cost
thrty-two cents. pound Of merchandise is
conveyed by the Post Office Department from
New York 10 Arizona for sixteen cents and
pound Of newspapers from Boston TO San Fran
cisco for two cents.
Now, II the American press will ventiate this
subject and express their views upon il. we can
have nanny postage secured at next session. II
nothing is said we are likely TO have a two-cent
postage which should regret. should rather
have the three-cent postage remain to hasten
the surely coming day OF u uniform penny
postage. Very respectfully.
BROOKLYN Sept. Is. W. E. ROBINSON.