Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-04-28
TIE RUHXt fReE DrlIVERY.

The people 81 the rural districts
throughauEthe eouatFy who have en-,
joyed she advanisgea OF she fee de.
livery system will applaud the speech
Of Representative Flood OF Virginia
which was made Ga the discussion Of
htbe psstOfElce sppTcprIstioM bill the
otheF day. An smepd ment had been
Introduced into the Hcnee OF Repre-.
gentntlsea. the pgypOee OF which wSs
t6Stop sn evlasat movements on the
tpssb IL thg P6ssUfIee Department to
4espsn lhs auhber az deliveries upon
lrutal ffea delivery tputes. ~
Representative Flood rightiolly pnd
plaiaIy showed that the rural free de-
livery service Today IL one OF the most
popular ,bSAnehsS Of the government.
He also deTnonStFated that the add.
tional expense 10 fully juSgilsed By rhe
benefits derived from Il b. the ebun,ry
people. Everyone who watches the
continued progress otS$bs conatry
knows that the rural free delivery SER
vice has been benefsctor In helping
along higher cOnd,tion OF ciSilisa.
tion.
The syStemiS 10 operation In many
States and II ought 10 be general, says
The SAvannsh News. The farmer, tho
village mechanic, living on the line Of
3 railroad and formerly dependent
upon mail perhaps twice or. three
times q week, under the rurpl free de.
livery system 10 placed 10 touch With
the world. He 10 enabled TO get a
daily pGper the came day II Il printed.
II he has an errand along she route he
may depend upon the rural carrier ut
. nominal tpm. To abandon she rural
free delivery routes and go bacNto the
old custom, which would surely seem
primitive under the circumstances,
would be dstsp backward. A part OF
what Representative Flood he'd to say |
on the subject will not be uninsesest.
ing In this connection,
"Cl,ies and towns have long enjoyed |
the boon Of free delivery OF mail and |
there 10 10 reason why the people OF
she country Districts, even the most
remote, should not participate in II.
Under the system - at present con.
Quoted, the lesters, papers and pack
ages OF country people are delivered to
'hem attheiF very door and at their
very door the carrier takss their let.
'eFs and packages and sends them on
10 their various destinations. The de.
iveFies 10 the most Femots sections
'hus brings the people In daily com.
nunicaslon with she busy, busting
world. They feel, a. II were, the very
pulse Of che businees, polltlcal, and 90.
'iai events shat are oCeoPPlng IN every
portion OF the elvilIssd world.
~ 10 q great blessing 70 farmers 10
The busy season. The rural delivery
u mails enables lnhsbI,aDts Of iso-
ated sections OF tho country 70 take
advantage Of the method OF sduca,ion
rom daily nswspapen and other pub.
which they have heretofore
'esn deprived Of. II enables them 10
inter Into the dellberAtions Of thoir
RATIONAL Congress- and 70 know what
bsiug done here, and have heard 4. i
uggsStsd tAas thists she rsaSou Re.
ublIoans are opposed 70 u.
They can keep % With their State
and acqualnt themselves
nth what 10 going on IN the outside
'orld. Thsss ere the people who gs.
sPy few belsA,s Of satePulnens, TAey Il
o not GET slsA thropah she med lum
Z special !ss!,lAtion. They pay tazss
I'd bear thels shaes oi lhs burdens Of
governments. and they are satl,Isd soi
As eonvsnsenos and advantage che
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