Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-08-22

with the one the government puts
out, let alone set up the Job and
print one thousand of them. |
call that unfair competition. If
the government goes in the hole
they can levy little more tax.
If the printer goes in the hole,
the sheriff closes his shop"
This article is typical of opinions
expressed by thousands of other prin-
ters and publishers throughout the
country.
please also bear in mind that the
Pest Office department cannot, under
the existing law, receive a profit from
the sale of stamped envelopes. Why,
then, the expenditure of so much
money and effort in the maintenance
of an establishment which can have
no other purpose than conduct such
ruinous competition with it's citi-
zens? If the present practice were
modified, the government finances
could not be impaired, the printers,
paper dealers and envelope manufac-
turers would get the natural and legi-
innate business to which they are
justly entitled and the consumer of
all other articles in use, would pay
the price fixed by the natural law of
supply and demand. This is all he
has right to expect unless we are to
have communism in this country.
1--WE endeavor to assist the post Of
flee in every possible way. We urge
our customers to comply with all the
! requests of the government, by hav-
ing their return card printed on the
envelope and selecting an envelope
-, of standard size which can easily
be handed in the mails We cooper
ate but the government completes.
'The printers of the country have
the right to believe that the govern
ment should protect their business in
stead of monopolizing it. We really
cannot understand why the Post Of
flee department has been permitted
to continue with these unfair meth
DDS. | venture to say that if I form
ed corporation and competed so I'M
justly with another printer action
would be taken Immediately, forcing
me to adopt a more ethical business
practice.
eve cannot understand why dis
elimination is shown against the prin-
ter. Assume that you gentlemen were
engaged in business; that the govern
ment undertook competition with you
and supplied consumers with their
goods at cost or less; used the mails
without postage charges; utilized
postmasters and their assistants for
the purpose of advertising and sales
would you not consider it serious
Invasion on your rights as taxpayer
aNd citizen, and protest in no mild
terms?
Looking at the matter from an
other angle, am forced to pay taxes
to cover many expenses to the gov
eminent including the upkeep and sal
aries of the post office. Do you think
it is fair that printers should help
support a competitor who is prevent
ing his success? We are heartily in
sympathy with all slogans such as
Boost your own town. etc., and al
ways endeavor to patronize local bust
ness, but we have great difficulty in
obtaining this patronage ourselves
because of the government who should
be assisting our progress instead of
hampering it.
eve do not believe it proper, help
full or necessary for the government
to depart from it's governmental du-
ties, and emphatically are of the O.
pinion that printing and marketing of
envelopes is entirely outside of its
legitimate jurisdiction unless the pres
ent practice is greatly modified.
"The printers, and all citizens of
the United States, are greatly depen-
dent upon their government and legis-
lators. They feel safe in assuming
that no unfair practice will be per-
mite to continue for any length of
time
Therefore, we are hopeful that
Congress will Immediately find some
solution for this printers problem
and thus enable u sto receive the bus
mess whic his rightfully ours"