Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-29

song. There's no more need OF
you
And honest industry is oft forgotten
when at last
It's buildings are completed an it's
own short hour is past.
But the old world says, We're strive
In ana we're toilin' fur a height
When every one kin have his share OF
1 air an rood an light
I, I'd like to stop each sacrifice. pa
thetic or sublime,
y But till the works completed-why, !
haven't got the time.
III Washington Star.
1.-THE ONE CENT RATE ON NEWSPAPERS.
The United States postal commission
= As investigating matters connected with
the carrying: Of second class mail. Be-
I fore it appeared Edwin G. Madden,
third assistant postmaster general,
with an argument favoring uniform
rate OF cents a pound for all classes
/ Of printed matter, whether 1t be edu-
cational or for the purpose Of dissem-
s. mating news, or for advertising pur-
/ poses. Presenting pile Of magazines
4 and other publications which he con-
sidered to have taken advantage of the
pound rate of cent unjustly, because
many OF them were sent to fake names
and to persons who do not pay and
who are not required to pay for them,
\ Mr., Madden suggested as an equitable
and feasible way out Of the difficulty
of deficit, to saddle the legitimate pub.
Listing industry, Of the country with a
mulct of 8 added cents per pound that
postal deficit may be made up AT
present the cost of carrying second
class mail, according. to the figures of
ex- Postmaster General Smith, amounts
to 5 cents for carriage and 2 cents for
y distribution.
In the first place, most reasonable
men will not fail to distinguish a
marked difference between publications
printed and circulated for the express
4 purpose cf disseminating advertising
papers refuse, and daily and weekly
Journals published to convey news ana
markets and matters of positive in
$ formation for which there is constant
demand. To class the newspaper with
the grating mediums of shady adver-
Using is insulting. To say that, the
nd l,of ao;t; 20
. Industry must carry the burden of an
noying and worthless parasites Of in-
dustry is unjust. To charge the sec
ond class mail with the full deficit
caused by the Inauguration and ex-
pense of free rural mail delivery is poor
bookkeeping and poorer business.
The fact is, as appears by the ex-
postmaster generals figures, that the
{ department is overlooking the niger
In the vyoodpile who is responsible for
the deficit in postal f1rewood. One
cent a round is $40 ton for transport
tation and such distribution as is
made CT second class matter. -Four
cents q pound would be $50 ton. The
present cost according to the figures
Is $40 a ton for carrying second class
mail matter. Any private individual
can send q single ton from Marshall
town to New York for hundred dol
lars, or to Chicago for $35, by express,
and these are monopoly figures and in
clude the profits Of at least two corr,
poratitns, and enormous profits a..
that. The catalogue houses advertise
to send express matter in 15-pound
parcels, at a cent a pound. That Is 500
a ton, or the present rate for news.
papers sacked and ready for shipment.
Most Of the circulation Of these newsA
papers, Is within 100 miles of the Office
Of publication. Few extend over the
distance between Chicago and Mar
a rate of cent and three-quarters
for single shipment Where does the
extra cost of 5A cents a pound or $105
q ton over private monopoly prices
come in?
II the department will apply to the
express companies, 1t will learn some
thing vastly to its advantage. Maya
inc publishers are now using the ex-
press as a saving profit over the rate
the department. charges with respon-
sibility for a deficit. While contracts
for mail transportation cover the cost
of the operation Of the train that car
ries mail, while we pay rate OF
centst pound where the private indi-
vidunl gets a rate of a cent and three
quarters. and the department. stores
one-cent rate. most people will feel
certain that they can locate the postal
deficit outside the 1-cent rate on news
papers. In fact there should be, and
II conducted with the acumen and hon.
esty Of the average business man, is.
a splendid profit on the carriage and