The Ward County independent., 1910-03-03
TEN POINTS OF POSTAL MANAGEMENT

ing their goods. ,,, -..4
THE postotice paid railroads s5o,ooooOO last
year for mail transportation. Within the last rs
years general freight rates have been reduced on
the average fifty per cent. But the United States
is stlI paying rates ninety per cent OF what they
we're in 1885, 1T is also paying from 100 to 300 per
cent mote than any express company or other, cor
soration tr4.s.'.@ = :: =. = (. ar.'t
3-The postofhce charges one cent pound for
s.coud class matter, and loses $63;OOO,0O0 year.
But in Canada whose total population is only equal
to that Of Greater New York, they charge onequar-
Ter Of cent pound for such matter and with
,onser haus makes 81 100000 year profit out Of it.
~ A-The railroads fix their mail carrying rates by
Sxsyfding the country into four districts and by
eiEhing once every four years for period of nine
ty days all the mail carried through each section.
Postal reform organizations assert that this loose
method uniformly results in overcharge of about
s pr cent or $2,5o0,oOO through overweighing. .
s:-Packages weighing more than four pounds, by
\ regulation inspired by the, express companies, are
,nxaxilabe in the United States. All such packages
mus. be sent by express. To send an eleven pound
p.ekage from New York, to San Francisco costs
SlSq But packages up to eleven pounds may be
,nsled in England be distributed by express all
~rer the United States at uniform rate Of twen-
ty-&ye cents.
e-The government has absolute power to monop-
sa,a carrying Of all mailable matter. It has made
ssar1ing of letter criminal ofense, but has never
xxseeised it's right four pound AM less pack
aeus-fourth class mail. Profit to the government
xpea the latter is forty per cent. $20OO,OQo sur
IDns vas shown through it last year. But the ex'
.r<ss companies have been allowed TO take eighty
~ cent of this business from the post Office, rob-
hing it of $S,OOo0O0 yearly. .a.. :.
THE average amount Of monthly revenue deriv-
I'd from each of the 10000 rural free delivery routes
n S1lS2 the cost of maintenance of each route Is
S11ls The twohorse rural delivery wagons carry
sn An average only twenty-five pounds day. The
aeoartment showed last year deficit of $2S,OOO,0O0
III one Of the great express companies carried
10 and a half every day on each of its wagons
- charging no more for it's service. paid $500
tayiaeads on each of its shares. parcels post
u..M add s50,OO0000 year TO- the postofhce deficit
1.-THE postohice pays freight on returning post
n equipment empty mail bags, ETC. But empty
0k cans pay no return freight, nor do certain
sahsr receptacles by private arrangement" with
aass roads while rates returning crates and bar
s,as Of exempt" corporations and private mer-
xAxnts are from twenty-five to fifty per cent lower
gAn postal equipment .. g., V, ~
at costs the post Office $5,ooo,ooo a. year to
hs1xla the mail Of the other departments of the
government. By its system Of bookkeeping this is
SAarxed up against the expenditures OF the postal
a.partnent when it should be divided pro rata
snnsnE the other departments themselves. o.:
1a-1he post master general has the power to
nhnp and open any mans mail and there is no appeal
Hyc his decision. 49,.
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Tne NOAH case should never be retired. II it 1s,
Ward county will be to additional expense OF
touand dollars so, but If the supreme court de-
sf1x to, 1a fair the county can be saved this ex-
pe.se An effort: is being made to secure rehearing
4u this case, and the supreme court ought to grant
L The supreme court will be asked to allow the
,s.caras to be remanded for amendment in accord
xnes With the fact and if this is granted, motion
,s1r he made for re-hearing. Af1davits have been
ssxned by Judge Goss, former States Attorney Nc
s:se Court Stenographer Love- former Deputy Dis
e<ct Court Clerk Evans and former Asst States At
aorney Francis j. Murphy, to the effect that Moan
entered plea OF guilty to the charge Of murder In
thu first degree. The fact that the clerk OF court
eai3el to state in his record the exact crime OF
which Noah entered plea of guilty, but instead,
zested that he had plead guilty to the charge filed
IN he complaint, should never be the cause OF
lasipx Noah second trial ,,,. - -. 80. % ~. ~.
There will be quite an emigration from North