Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-02-24
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Every civilized country the world Except United sasJ
its telegraph Every civilized country the world Except the
United Saes) telephones Every country in the world lex
the United States express service Every country the
world its postal system and every country the world makes
money out that system EXCEPT THE UNITED STATES.
There be for this Nothing just happens,
the effect Of the United States loses through e
postal system charging enough for the
are paying too collections and %
button cannot charging enough the
countries charge than do IT then be in
expenses the wages of the epoyes They do receive
private corporations pay for the kind OF service but
a. @n dG5 e trouble l no n tie Collection and
hon must be in the transportation That the only lett 10
(which it could hide ~'Y. r. r
analyz Bit if do without going into figures,
for figures be ugged and besides they are 50 resom
this broad country and ppng handle
thing portable arbitrarily prohibits most of the i shuts sI
shuts itself off from the telephone which has always paid enormous div
kinds or above weight which off the express business
and companies have always paid dividends
United States the only country in the world doing it is the
only country the world losing money. .
That ITSELF would appear be enough justify deficit but
paena much farther than that 1t sends its packages
the railroads. in the trains the hour making the
fast time the companies send their packages and
government always the do the
and pay the railroads as rent for cars equal
the entire Of building that carand then keeps right on paying
Then refusing the profitable telegraph telephone and
business and sending what left the most expensive routes
goody portion absolutely free of charge It sends
all business of and that big tem running undob
% e than m aOV o e with
printed audatory Of himself Cor anything ee and the Govern
very devere Congress ALL he sends
other things his constituents which, under whatever are but
at Tnan the Pchoan reater, caugh,
sending spewriIs through the mails Ex-senator Billy Mason the
great hoter for the peepu caught sending his entire household
effects MALL the list of such things long for reproduction
and pays the railroads for the hauling .3 s.:
So that have deficit the end Of the
alarming itself for the Agricultural Department makes
money the Judiciary Department is not self sustaining the Consular
But suddenly great has been raised BY TAFT that the ppoce
deficit must be wiped out And the way selected is to wipe out OF
tackled the transportation cost found were paying nine
eges being taken advantage Of BY prvatery
owned iron safes being included mail mater Of public We
without corresponding increase of through extending
business carry everything caryabe We might have tackled the
weghngn scheme if heard that at the time when railroads
the mail to fix the compensation for ensuing that the mails
Were padded with the @ our 5 % ne % S
the rates Of postage on the Not all the papers just the weekly
truths which dsturbe robber barons.
The Majority instance maled the pound The
That would increase of 50 subscriber With
every other publication in the country the result would be the same
The people will Their indirect the Government
simply increased so per for publication they
readexpt the daily whose utterance generally acceptable
Perhaps you connection meaning Of this
Yet plain The Government not losing secondclass
matter s. should Using paper
again. hundred miles than the haul far
Yet send papers this distance by the companies at the
of pound And the companies have never
reported deficit. <f~.
The whole scheme sincere desire to wipe out the postal def
some of the railroad graft would be elm
mated The object eliminate the weekly and monthly which
radicaa the papers that dare raise their against the
qu which around and about and above The interests OF
railroads and telegraph and telephone and companies must
protected for they have their but the interests Of the
people not being protected for the people
what lacking in representation in the halls Of Congress
Write your Congressman and Senator There little danger
Majority believes Of passageof such law this session. but ask
he
ownership of railroads land telegraph and telephone and