The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-04-03

names is of some commercial import
ance Indeed. assuming for the third
time. VIC reach the conclusion that
1t is of greater commercial import
ance than any city In the United
States.
Let lis explain:
There Is city in the American union
that is known as Boston. Probably
there are several cities In the United
States by that name. but we have ref
erence to the one in which a tea party
was once held Boston has an inter
national reputation. The residents
or the city commonly believe 1t TO b.
a city of considerable Importance. OBJ
serves the National Daily They
point with pride" TO the census.
cipaIlty of the country in point of
population II also has large public
debt. numerous tall buildings. dozens
OF crooked streets and It's full quota
of crooked politicians. It is, in short.
a thoroughly modern city.
And yet Boston must take off its
hat to Hsungyocheng, alias Yuga-
kujio.
A Manchurian, or any other kind OF
man, In Hsiungycheng can send a par
eel weighing IL pounds through the
United States malls to San Francisco
The best a BOstonian can do is to
get four-pound San Francisco pack.
age into the mails.
The Bostonian. moreover, is requir-
ed to pay postage on his four-pound
package at the rate of one cent an
ounce, whereas the Manchurian rate,
rather than the rate established by
the congress OF the United States.
governs the charge made of the man
in Hsiungyocheng.
Uncle Sam is under contract TO
handle all of the parcels that Man
churia sends to him, of any weight
up 10 II pounds, but he refuses to
perform the same service for Boston
at any price. Boston really needs
the service; Hsiungyocheng probably
does not Boston is one of the great
commercial centers Of the world: Hsi-
ungyocheDg is not. Boston Is an Am
cfican city; Hyiungyochcng belongs
TO an allen race. Congress. presum-
ably an American institution, has
cared for the interests OF Hsiungyo.
cheng and neglected the interests of
Boston. 1t has ignored Boston, as all
men know. because private interests
have desired to fatten at Boston's ex-
pcnsc.
But Boston Is no more greatly dis.
eliminated against than any other
American city. And the Boston man
is no more Disseminated against than
is the farmer who lives, remote from
the large cities, on the plains of the |
west On the other hand. Hsiungyo-
NhShb 10 uO more ldNOlSu ludU dHy \
other foreign city in the postal union.
Uncle Sam does not discriminate as |
between Hslungyocheng and the Bar.
oados, because the world powers
would not tolerate such discrimina.
tion but he does discriminate against |
all the cities under the American |
flag. He denies them postal privi- |
leSes that he gives 10 almost any city |
under almost any other flag.
Is this good business? Is it even
good sense? Are congressman such
geese as TO imagine that the people
of the United States do not consid-
er themselves at least on a par with
the natives OF Hsiungyocheng? Have
our lawmakers no political foresight
whatever? Are they blind that they
can not See the growing evidences
OF popular discomfort with existing
postal conditions, and deaf that they
can not hear the warnings of politi'
cal rebellion? Have they not yet
scented the first whfIS of the scandal
that VIII one day be stirred up when
the people insert the probe into this
postal graft?