St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-04

time, when the secretary Informed the
meeting that the national president, J.
Ii. Fennessy, had paper to read on tie
fast mail service. In his paper Mr..
FehneSsy said: %,
The people of America have passed
the experimental age, and are beginning
to realize the difference between neces-
sity and superiority. They have learned
to choose as institutions only things
that Will always remain as beneficial
elements, which are capable of increas-
ing in ratio with the demands of poster
ity. While the old world is in many
Instances still pIodding along in rutS
worn smooth by centuries, America is
enjoying the issue OF honest energy and
superior skill.
When Older countries have failed to
give us patterns to go by We have gone
to work for ourselves. and our achieve
ments nave supplied the world with
some of the most
NEa&p4fcent Enterprises
ever bestowed upon mankind All the
great enterprises of the country have
been the results of American energy
cropping in darkness, and we owe to no
thing which We today enjoy. America
was uiscoVered,and American industries
have been discovered, hut not by for
eigner;. chief among which are our rail-
road systems. which canuOt be APP
preached by any foreign country, and it
is purely ali american system. Our fast
mali flashes from one boundary of the
country to another. and is an emblem of
American skill and judgment. 1t is a
precuISOriQt American supremacy. and
will keep America always IN the lead.
1t has an Influence upon our business
interests and socIal life which cannot be
com pared by pecuniary compensation:
and the longer we have it and the faster
itrunS the greater price we put upon 1t.
st. Louis. and the fast mail west from
st. Louis, Is most familiar to NE, and |
will contine my remarks 10 that section,
but | must still be regarded dS speaking
OF the entire country.
Should the fast mail he suspended
/ there panic among the business inter
+ eSts would result, aud the great daily
papers would suspend publication
The service is almost as quick as the
telegraph, a great deal safer and is in
every way more satisfactory. Leaving
| ST. Louis at 3 a. M, it supplies the in
haOitantS for 215 miles with eastern
| mail, and lays upon the desk of the
| business man his important corresponds
ence In time for him to give an imme-
diate reply. Think of the value of this
| 4 mau rising from his peaceful slain-
beers in Kansas city may find beside his
| plate paper printed in St. Louis only
| few hours before. The influence which
| this has upon business is SO plain that
| | will only say that it inspires business
in every way to know that the mail WIFI
| he ouicklV and safely handled e...-
y man i'll st. Louis has a customer in.
! the country, and wishes To discuss some
| important subject with him; it is 700
| expensive to telegraph and he cannot
! wait 10 dispatch letter by the old wav.
| The fast mail solves the problem fOIs
! him. He can send letter of length to.
| his correspondent and have an answer.
whilst his clerks are making out The
/ bill for his goods, and so the man rises
up anG calls the fast mali blessed. 70 e
Again: \ poor man wishes to com
| municate at once with relative some.
| miles out In the country, and may write
| his letter and have an answer ''wnile be
| waits" He in like manner shouts the
! glory of the fast mail from the house
| tops and IS never tired of singing Is
| praises SO You may easily discover
the benefits to the American business
! men. When they see they need thing
| lueA DIT OIlCS SCl dUOut supply lllS IL. Our
| ancestors got along very we'll with the
| steamboat and stage coach, but those
things could not fulfill the requirements
| of today, and the
| Natural Issue of Necessity
was the fast mail. We have tile best
! organized mail system on earth and the
| most satisfactory mail delivery in exist
ence, but the system and the delivery is
lost cause without the fast mail. 1T
| is the bone and sinew of the service.
/ and, though ii comes high. we must
have it, and in about every instance we
are we'll pleased with what we get for
the money.
We have ceased to be content. with
what is considered good enough, and
we want something better. Our fore
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