The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-01


hoarded or sent away by these people
I'm many instances il has been found
that. for want of postal savings banks
money orders are being bought. pay
able to the purchaser. good for one
year
During the flcsal year ended June
20, 1907. the postoffice department
sent to European countries alone II
fthe form of money orders $72,111.
1884. OF this sum. $lS,9SG,5l9.6l
went to italy representing 4s9, 795
money orders, averaging sil.2s
cach;) $l6,363. 99l,G6 to Austria-IIun
lgary; $l1,582,02S.54 to Great Britain
and ST.250,S53.69 to Russia. This
money, while ii was accommodating,
would naturally have been placed for
safety in the postal savings banks.
In fact, il has been brought to my
attention that money of the immi-
grants. on account OF its possessors
being ignorant of our language and
suspicious OF our private institutions
/ IL being sent home in order that IL
may be placed in the postal savings
banks Of their native countries. II is
believed that this world be the case.
IN many Instances, IL we had postal
savings banks In the United States.
The total amount of deposits in the
savings banks OF this country is So
6s0,07S945. OF this amount 1894,
COG 034 is in the state of New York.
Sl.29g,70l, pa is in the New England
States. sCa4,0Sl.142 being deposited in
the state Of Massachusetts; sl59,174
012 IL in the state Of Pennsylvania
Sig4,6GS,S5s is in the state Of Illinois;
Sl35,3T 1876 is in the state Of Iowa
and s576.SGS.39l in the rest of the
United States.
From these figures it will be seen
that 80 per cent is in New York
State 20 per cent is in the New Eng
land States. about 10 per cent being |
in Massachusetts,; per cent in Penn |
sylyania; per cent In Illinois; |
nearly 4 per cent in Iowa and only |
about 1G per cent in all the remaining
states.
Parcel Post On Rural Routes.
recommend the establishment of |
q parcel post system on rural delivery |
~outes for packages originating on a
rural route OF at the distributing post
office for delivery by rural carriers to
patrons thereof az rate Of cents
for the first pound aud ? cents for
sach additional pound or fractional
tart of an additional pound M 10 II
pounds; for ounces or less. cent:
,ver ounces and up to ounces. 2
,ents: over 4 and up to s ounces, 3
,ents over and up TO 2 ounces, 1
-ents over 1 and up to l pound
,ents
This will be a great boon to the
armers who have not the conven
ences for obtaining the necessaries
oy A special parcel post on rural
'ontes will facilitate consumption and
hereby increase the business of the
cuntry merchant. Increased trade
or the country merchant means in
reased orders for those from whom
Ie purchases his supplies. A further
act Is that the increased cancella-
ions will advance automatically the /
aaries OF the postmasters of fourth
lass offices. The remaining revenue
eriyed from the parcel post on the
ural routes will be clear gain and
vii 90 far toward making the rura'
eryce in time selfsGstaining. The
ural delivery is now established ex
ensively throughout the United
states. there being 3S,2GG routes in
peration. supplying about $4,000, 900
eople aud Will cost s3l,900.000 this .
ear
The history and advantages of the
ural delivery should be understood |
y our people. There is feeling in
many quarters that it is an extrava
ance and an unnecessary drain upon !
he postal revenue. The first rural
cute was established in the latter :
art OF 1896. si4.S40 being expended d
Or rural delivery during that fiscal
car. At that time tie postal deficit
'as Sl1,i1l,779. During the fisca' i
ear ended June 30, 1907 the ex-
enditures for rural delivery aggre-
aied s2G.G7l 500. while the postal de- /
cit showed a decrease as compared {
18th 1897. OF si.So0O01, the deficit G
mounting to s6.G55,2S2 This would !
eem to show that while. the expense I
1curred for maintaining rural deiiv- I
rs is egrat. yet the rural delivery has
cen instrumental in increasing the ,
eneraI postal receipts. However. its +,
enents TO our people can not be
icasrrei In dollars and cents.