Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-06-16


The citizen has purposely abatained from sayns
anything for 81 against me proposed ship subsidy aeheme
Tor several reasons o. which Is that there seems 10
probability Of action during the present session hat
once before this paper felt constrained deny the eoa-
cnton Of the friends OF that scheme when 20 bolster up
their own cause they asserted that the farmers q the
west are receiving 40 Immense Subsidy n the naonal
reclamation OF the arid lands - exposlne AA atso,
uioiy ana almost idloc naccuracy The OuAen amfhea
that the friends oi the measure have ~ better arsu
sut 10 produce they would 90 good for their cause
should shey say nothing % alA
Recently. they have put forth anfther AibumVht
along the same line aud equally mpnatroua Ia s abb
surdy This argument Is that cosln shipping interests
should receive immense payment OF money out 81 ts
public treasury tor engaging Ia the carrying Aade, DC
cause the governments pays hye ceuta Per pound ior
carying newspapers Tor which publishers pay but one
cent q pound.
Thefe a neither sense n this argument nor truth IN
lhe assertion upon which 81 d founded. Who gets the
beneai 81 cheap postage readng matter3 Certainly
hot the puhishors They pay ihe one cent per pound
aoio % give cheap residing 10 their patrons n
reading public The government pays the additional
four cents n the assertion De true and the omount goes
hack for the benefit % the people who paid Il into the
government treasury and the publisher 10 neither the
toher the poorer horerom The four cents neither
comes aai o hs pocket nef goes nlo g. The press like
ihe pehe school b great educator OF the people and
the Cspaaaas % tho school ia fl and che carrage Of
papers Ia part educators paid from the taxes paid
BY che people because they are essential % the nap
nness wen being 81 a the people Can amy Of these
Shines be said OF d suhaldy paid a steamship line3
Th8 friends oi this ship subsidy say that che cosi ~
carYne the second class matter OF the mails last year
10 excess 81 what the publishers paid was 42690so0Q
Did the pufhels this twenty mllllonsf u -
doubtful 81 even the people SOS ~ Here few facts;
Use deficit last year o. the postal department was
tifbI22sA The postmaster general says that the loss
caused By the fFanldng privilege sie8aa,0o0 Had
the thus paid the usual postage there
would have been deficit bat a surplus Of t52i1Ai6
he cost Of second class matter which che subsidy people
ry make appear thai Of periodicals only but which
includes this ffanldng business, f2e96so0Q Take
from this the 9i9S220o0 Tor che fanhed matter and
there VIII be left but 31iiGo00 whcn DO charged %
periodically and ths viii be- but small fraction one
per pound which the people would set from she'll
own taxes oncapen their literature their schooling IN
the affairs of tho world VINO really gets this together
with an tho remainder % ho deficit WIZ appear from eva
quotations;
The LOS Angeles Examiner said recently. The
postmaster general aEaiu Is suggesting plan 10 reform
fhe postal service As usual he d trying limit tho
form to defining tho publications pntled TO aecond-oas
postage rates When he might advance the proposition
of parcels post postal banking system. d posi4
express OF postal telegraph no limits bis rocommoHda
tions 10 that which utterly trivial When there 10 "
great demand throughout tho United States Tor th
extension of the postal service why DO ne onclas o
that service and the members oi who happen
BE- AZ Che head Of the poalooe committee stand Away
Tor me protection 81 tho express companies and th