The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-03-21
Sunday, March Il, 1920.
FREE

RICANISM-POSTAGE FREE
THE mail transportation facilities are now
L taxed to the utmost in an all but futile
effort to handle the daily business of business
men of the United States. Originally and
fundamentally the postal service was intend
ed that the mail service should be a finan-
cial success as well as a means of facilitating
the interchange of correspondence between
different people. Originally and fundament-
ally the mail service was ordained to be a
channel Of intercommunication between the
people of different sections of the country.
The man of business, as originally con-
templated, by the rules of the postal service,
could write 4 letter to another business man,
in another town, another county, another
state another section of the country drop
this letter into the home town postoffice and
know that within few hours, a few days
at the most. his letter would be received and
read and the reply written and posted to
him.
All that was required of him was to affX
little piece of gummed paper, which cost
him couple of Lincoln pennies, to the en-
velope and his communication, as first
class mall was given right-of-way over
newspapers, catalogues and magazines.
But the relentless revolutions of the
cycles of Time has wrought woeful changes
from the fundamental intentions of the postal
service. Now, with postal service sadly IN
efficient, through the exercise of Mr.. Burle
sons idea of business acumen, the letter with
the little, red-headed postage stamp in the
upper right hand corner is liable to become
buried deep beneath the tonnage Of political
propaganda which is sent forth from Wash
ington, with little government postage free
notice in the corner which the ordinary hu-
man would have to decorate with two cents
worth of postage stamps.
Possibly one of the greatest users OF the
postage frank who is in the United States
senate today is Thomas p. Gore, Of Okla
homa.
Just day or so ago the over-worked
postal clerks handling the mails between
Washington and the many postofficeS, big
and little, great and small. in Oklahoma,
were compelled to take a part of the time,
goodly part of it, from the handling of regu-
larly postpaid letters, and devote it to dis
tributing and routing a 16-page bunch Of
political propaganda, marked up in the cor
ner where the postage stamps should have
been, Part of Congressional Record-Free."
This l6-page booklet purported to be a
speech Of Hon. Y. P, Gore of Oklahoma"
The speech was evidently written out and
may have been delivered upon the floor of the
senate, although the chances are that ii was
not, but that it was ''printed into the Congress
sonal Record" under the tme-honored 'leave
to print" courtesy of the senatorial body
The speech is a long-wnded tale of
how Gore stands upon things American. If
we are not lily advised the voters of Okla
homa, men and women have had ample
opportunity to become familiar with Mr..
Cores brand Of AmericaniSm, as he eXem-
plified it by his votes Immediately before the
United States entered the world war; after
America entered this war. and following the
signing of the armstice
In addition to making the taxpayers of
the nation defray the cost of handling his
post-free dope, Senator Gore offers some very
interesting arguments, relative to his brand of
Americansm. arguments which may affect
the votes OF the returned Oklahoma soldier
boys who will doubtless be glad to learn what
kind of an American represented them as
Junior senator from the great new state while
they were shooting and carving the fear of
Omnipotence and the American Eagle into the /
hearts Of the Huns.