New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-08-15
The Postal Deficit.

AS was said in the July Is issue of
.Up-to- Date Farming, the postal fight
is already opening on the second class
mail matter, including newspapers and
period icals; and before it's finished an
attempt will not only be made to re-
duce the second-class list, but to fix it
SO that virtual censorship may be
exercised of this class Of mail natter
This power has already been exer-
cised to an unwarranted degree and
there is an unmistakable desire to in.
crease the power.
II there is an honest desire to pre-
vent q deficit and make the postal SER
Notwithstanding land it ought to be-,
we would suggest an overhaullng Of
the railroad mail service. This now
almost amounts to a subsidy, or quite,
to the railroad companies. Many Of
the larger roads run from eight to ten
trains a day, and all of them most
likely are mail trains, whereas two
mails day each way would we'll serve
any but the larger cities, and so many
trains enter these from different direc-
tons that they could get abundant SER
vice without Substituting every train.
We have in mind now a small town
that has eight mails a day. This multi
plicity of mails is not bestowed. we
feel warranted in saying, as a favor
to that town, but to give increased
contracts to the railroad companies.
At all events, it is not necessary. The
people do not ask it, and millions
could be saved annually by cutting
out such surplus service all over the
country.
Again it is charged, and we have
not seen it denied, that the railroad
mail service is exceedingly costly
that the mail carried pays higher
charges than the most costly freights.
Before increasing the postage on the
second-class matter, the. matter the
masses Of the people read, get among
these other things with the presidential
"big stick.
A number of the papers issued last
week and coming to this Office have
taken up with the idea that farmers
cooperative stores are the thing with
which to fight the catalogue houses, and
speak highly of the project. 1t is
fallacy. Very few of the farmers CO.
operative stores that have been started
and run on the broadest principles
have succeeded. Once in a while as
at Hanska, you will find one that has
been a success, but even this which has
endured for number of years is los
ing much of the support it once had,
and then what is the difference in a
community if there is one great dis
tributing point, depot and a saloon,
whether it is conducted on the CO.
operative plan or through a catalogue
house. What we want to make a good,
live market and keep the spirit of the
country alive, is the sharp competitive
competition that exists IN communities
that are not crushed with the weight
of the trusts and the department stores
of the cities. The history of co-opera-
tive societies will show that they are
not a success except in rare cases, and
this is largely due to the fact that some
one man makes the business his own
and runs it to suit himself and in the
end becomes rich at the expense Of
those who have trusted him.
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