The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-12
CHEAPER POSTAGE WANTED.


ExPostmaster General Thomas l..
James was found in his big Lincoln bank
up town by Herald reporter yesterday
morning with asmile chasing care from
his face, Everybody seemed glad TO see
him, and he told his friends he had had a
most interesting visit in England for a
month past.
While there he spent cons lcrable time,
he said, in investigating the postal service
OF Great Britain and asccrtainng what
they are going 10 do about reducing post
age on mail matter. "Our inter
national postage is too high, said
| Col James; Gin fact, a new
schedule OF rates should DO made out
both in this country and in Europe. II X
absurd to charge more for sending u little
letter through the mails than big news
paper, which takes five times ~ much val.
liable space. Then, again, 1t IL absurd to
mako US pay an cxorbltant price Tor nows-
paper postage ~ Europe by ocean trans.
pOrtaiiOn when the same class OF matter
can be sent all over this country Tor u cent
a pound. 1t costs at the rate ol q cent for
two ounces to send the Herald 10 Europe
and only cent II pound to send newspa-
pens 10 Alaska in bulk. The same may DO
said vi magazine literature.
CHEAPER POSTAGE NEEDED.
"Our newspapers ought TO take up this
cheap postage problem aud aUaie II I'M
| Ill Congress affords the proper remedy.
81 remember when | first took charge
Of tho New York Posloilicc, fifteen years
ago, that we thought We were doing
wonderful things 10 got off 10000 letters
at one time In our foreign mails. Now
the postmaster considers himself lucky ii
lac has no moro than llj,OOD or 10000
letters per mail aud lac has three or four
| European mails week.
ali IA surprising to recall all Of the great
| changes that have taken place In this
country and In Europe during the last dc-
/ cndr. As | told them ON the other side,
/ believe with John Richard Orccu that the
| seat Ut power among ngliEh'slCaking
! people hns departed from the Thames aud
| Aipr,cy, and now fcpIscs on the banks Ol
the Hudson aud Mississippi. We should
| foster over here IN our wonderful America
peace aud trade aud commerce aud every
thing that tends 10 spread civilization aud
general information by means Of cheap
postage, aud u Tree press should be- en-
cOumgcd 10y Congress Special legislation
should be- enacted, 1t necessary, and
everything done 10 build up our growing
prosperity.
LNuiNND To ne AwAEESED.
"Whcn was IN London had long
talk Ia regard 10 the reduction ol tho In.
lcnalipnal postal rates, With the Hon. u.
4. Thomas q member ul Parliament. lie
was 30 much impressed with the impor-
taucc OF the subject thai no said he in.
tvnlvA to call on ho right honorable pay
| muster general AMI see VI uvrg could not
be- cheaper srhuiut arfuur'i in the
! postal ,Dryirc between ,ircat Britain aud
| the United States
"luu know % IL nid, " continued Mr.
! James, that tho British puslollirc auihDri.
Tics want 10 mako money uut ~ thor
postal service. u is often said ihpy have
subsidized two lines ui steamships. llut
yOu cannot cali 10 % subsidy exactly, Tor
they merely pay the ocean steamer lines
tot stopping their vessels ut Queenstown
AMI waiting for thr lriyh mails, which
| come across the Cuuuify from London
alter the steamers have already begun
| ,hnil transatlantic voyages. There are
/ liable, HHmvunrs, iu DO serious dee
! lays, and OF course the com.
! p,nlr' ought go Doe paid inr wait.
ng Tho postmaster in New York
du., mot give Qua European mails tn ANY
! particular steamship IIuD but a.NaNs sends
| thr pouches hy ihr fastest ship sailing uu q
! given duy, uud iIp result hls hprn very
! satisfactory both 90 business mon uul tu
I thv ruaiu.iD department The steamship
/ companies Inv paid In uyvln rate Tor car.
nIUs ihv Wtii., hu. in my opinion 30 Is
uu, enough. We only paid iE, year iur
our European mails 100 tIH uyilhb. rhu1i
ui eiui.UNt Forty .uur per cent ut our
foreign mli. COWS 90 England sD you Bee
Great britain gets neatly uuc.hil ct ull
thr lUtupyu mul ,UII is, uI tnr ly.icis. '
ioNuu, ru,r,i SERVICE
"Wl1t have you Goo Say OF iho London
postal WN.ur' r.krl tle upuuuE
"NyN, 3D. is very vrll managed. Hnl uu.
/ puaw o. give satisfaction. They have tly
udNauiI-H over 90, BOO having durgH dp.
| .,uIu. JHy, Will. Wr have ouiy u..hl
Eut th..r Hun UW.u rprrIuf only
/ ',unuu population, while vr i1Nr las
| than ODD carriers DO iuuly 2.uuNWu BOO.
| mliau,H. What Wy u1ly need d. th.r.
| teen deliveries Hul pmplIuwatc in-
ypUagU ,urr. $3.50 1900 VI 100 Go
/ cover tly ,.ty rul suburbs.
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