The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-08-17
Influence Of Postage ia. Sol
darity Of National Opinion
By Theo. Il. Price In Commerce and finance.

SCT'fnerCe ana FINANCE.
In tho United States, as in England,
| tries is cent Tor two ounces except that
the American government carries news
papers to it's colonies at cent per pound,
! While the English government treats the
Ehgilsh colonies and dependencies an
foreign countries insofar newspaper
p pos .a;s: is concerned The result is that
me circulation of English newspapers out
SIDE OF Great Britain is greatly restricted.
and even within the Kingdom the great
away from London. In the United States
the New York papers are in Boston or
Washington by $50 in the morning Of
the day OF issue
in Paris or Brussels which are hardly
| farther away from London than WASH
in2fon is from New York, thu English
lLt. .i!ng papers are not to be had until
the evening. and in Liverpool or Man
chester the person who reads a London
Pa page. regularly Is the great exception.
cerned, the English papers have a COM
Paratively small circulate and in tho
United States they are but little known.
at an expensive club or is quoted by an
ehitor. who thereupon is charged with
nallsm. On the other hand, American
papers have practically no crcuat ton in
Europe The few Americans who live on
HeralG, but our great dailies are obtained
with difficulty and are rarely seen. our
mIagazine publishers have made an effort
60 extend their circulation among the
English speaking people outside America,
out nave not been signaly successful be-
cause the cost of postage is prohipitive
nave gone into the details of the mat.
yer because | am impressed with the
thought that the solidarity of the Eng
hsn speaking people would be immensely
increased if the circulation of all news
papers printed in English were untram-
meIed by postal charges that are prac-
a ,iee'g pr vcb We, We are living in an
l.uence has become immensely extended
through the instrumentalry of the mex
our attitude in regard to nearly every
question OF life is the result of what Wa
read.
We are too busy to do much talking
except as we calculate on the telephone
Whatever thought we give to matters
that affect US individually or nationally is
the influence of the old fashioned news
paper .leader" or editorial has diTnin-
lshed, but the influence Of the interview
incident is described has immensely in
creased
To see ourselves as others see us in
tnelr newspapers, to get a view of world
affairs other than the one we can Obtain
through the atmosphere of our own en-
vironment would broaden our intelli-
gence, Increase our tolerance, and greatly
promote international sympathy and UNI
Outstanding.
A very thoughtful English io,rno,;..
said to me the other day that the World
was rapidly becoming anglo American"
rather than Angle Saxon. and that hu-
mainly was. in his opinion, correspond
ingly benefited.
Is it not possible to greatly accelerate
this tendency by removing the EMBARGO
which the postage rates put upon the In
tsrnat'onal circulation of newspapers? il
seems to be a question to which the
statesmen who have to do with the post
oTfices on both Sides OF the Atlantic could
address themselves with great benefIt to
me world at large, and the English speak
Ing world In particular