The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-05-24
SIGNAL AND The POSTOFFICE.
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ed against on account of articles not
regarding firms in business, but the
country at large We do not believe
the ruling was intended for the APP
plicatlon made in our case, and if it
was it should be enforced against all
papers.
The Signal has had the same
trouble every week since the first &C.
casion.
To the above letter and ruling we
replied as follows:
Weiser, Idaho, May 18th, 1900.
To the Honorable Third Assistant Post
Master General, Washington, u. @.
Sir:-l have received yours of April
25th, which does not reply to the subject
matter of my letter of the 10th ult. or
throw any light upon the probability of
the removal of the present exercised dis
elimination against the Weiser Signal.
| was aware OF the general provisions OF
your enclosed extract from the postal laws
regarding the circulation of a publica-
ton obviously" intended to advance
private interests, but 1t does not seem to
cover the case in question. | beg to sub
NIT the following:
Articles in the Signal calling public at
tention to the resources of the State should
not be construed by the Postal depart
ment to be obviously" intended to adj
vance the interests of some private
scheme. Every issue of every newspaper
in the. United States has some articles
that can be so construed. If such con-
structon is to be made against the Sig
nal, the results are very far-reachng.
| submit herewith copy of the last
issue Of the Signal containing article on
the proposed installation of a milling
plant by the Thunder Mt Consolidated
Gold Mines, Limited. BY reason of that
article, is that issue of the Signal to be
construed as intended to advance the
private interests of the Thunder Mount
ain @. G. M. Co., and therefore ineligible
to the mails for transmission to bona fide
subscribers?
In the Issue of April Goth, herewith
submitted, appears similar article re-
lating to the placing of a concentrating
plant on Rapid river by the Utopia Min
ing q Milling Co. Is that article "ob-
viously" published to further the private
interests of the Utopan M. and M. Co?
Does it debar the Utopian Co. from
subscribing to as many copies of the Sig
nal as it pleases, to be mailed to the
parties it may name?
In the same paper, mention is made of
the placing Of a steam hoist in the Ruth
burg mining district. Does that prevent
the Mountain Queen people from sub
soribng for more than one copy of the
paper.
The ruling you quote as authority for
the discrimination against the Signal,
which the local postmaster has invoked
from your department speaks of 1.-The
publisher acting as the agent Of the ad-
vertiser or purchaser" How do you
construe the word purchaser?
Mr.. s. H. Bashor has just handed me
so cents and instructed me to mail copy
of the Signal for ID weeks to Mrs s. II.
Bashor, Waterloo, Iowa. Is Mr.. Bashor
a purchaser" and am | acting as his
agent" in mailing the paper ordered by
him1
Is Mrs. Bashor bona fide subscriber or
does that copy require one cent-stamp?
Would she be subscriber If Mr..
Bashor had paid me 10 cents for two
weeks, or cents for one week?
Gould Mr.. Bashor have in the same
way subscribed for copy to be sent to
any other address, and if to one, could he
dresses?
If he can do SO, cannot the P. 81 l. N.
Ry. Co. do so?
Cannot the Thunder Mt Mining Co. do
SOL will not say "a mining company"
because thousands of instances are in ex-
istence where other mining companies,
and other concerns, have subscribed to
large number Of some publication, and
the papers have been mailed to the
persons designated without question or
interference by the postal department.
Granting person to be an advertiser,
does the fact that he is an advertiser in
general newspaper not published in
his individual interest deprive him
of the privilege of subscribing for that
paper to be sent to the person or persons
whom he designates. or debar the publish
er from increasing,his business to that ex-
tent?
In asking you to have the discrimina-
ton against the Signal removed, | reuuir-
ed information on certain points, which
information, you fail to give, sending me
simply an ambiguous printed extract in
tended to cover entirely different cases.
l would again respectfully ask you for
a ruling defining where, in the descend
ing scale from 90 weeks to one week,
comes in the line of demarkation between
bona fide subscribers and those not in
good faith.
Also ruling defining the cause why
the Signal must attach stamps to $50
copies mailed to individuals on the order
OF the general manager of the P. & l. N.
Ry. Co. (the article did not refer to the
railways business) on account of an
article relating to water, while the Boise
Statesman can mail 600 copies to one in
dividual under the same Circu m ta 70
(as given in my previous letter. at rate
of one cent pound.
AS further instance of privileges
granted other publications, and of which
it seems the Signal is to be arbitrarily de-
prived, ! mail you herewith copy Of
the Northwest Magazine as received from
the office Of publication and in original
wrapper. This magazine publishes an
article on the Thunder Mountain country.
The Thunder Mountain Gold Mines,
Limited, Co. sends money to the publishers