The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1906, Page 4

) . THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISHING CO. OFFICES (ht and 18 Beventh Avance WR Rkg APPERNOON BXCe rr SUNDAY, " BLEPHONR® Bostnens Dewartme . Matin 00: Independemt ttm BALLARDL s°Rt Bet eee, ote, Qonert, Red 1a ver moet POSTAL LOSSES 1 f this country mnducted private business uy principle n the postoffice department is € would be a nation of bankrupts within six ' 4 More than 82,000 postmen, with their horses and wagons, are now at work king up and distributing on their daily vi to the 126 far » on the average 25-mile rural routes about two pounds of mail ma er wagon, and brix fee « 40 conte a day. Tr ing in to the government from this serv ir total loads, mall collected and de ly average hardly 20 pounds. Costing about $2 a day, the net loss business is about $1.60 per day per wagon--$50,000 a day and year These 32,000 comparatively empty wagons being driven ov he country by 32,000 comparatively idle men must strike any business Man as poor business, Meanwhile, the farmer team and drive to town, just aa Press packages and ot t hiteh up his own fore, for his tea, coffee, sugar, ox ot supplies. Naturally, many of the early rural carriers in many parts of the country began at once the regular traffic he old post-<« ting f y to their mail service the transportation of passengers AKKARE chaniiae, produce, anything that was offered, up to the capacity of their vehicles, and charging a reasonable price for the service, But THE K STAR-SATURDA FEB GERMANY COLONIZING BRAZIL AS MO VE a DOWN MONROE DOCTRINE LEEELEL ELLE the government stopped this. Evidently good busine Py jectionable to the postoffice department, even when it , natural and unin Vited. An averag f two 5-cent pa a week for each family and leave a yearly surph f£ $5,000,00x The empty and expensive rara! wagon is not the worst. It but typifies on a am We are the only nation In the world without a parc i ecale the methods of the entire postal aystem tem. The United States pays the railways a big price for ¢ matis, and the express cheapest furm of mail w the people. Fe estimates that ying the mpanies are handling at a big profit the tter, to the great loos of the government and instance, there is the report of our consul at Guadaloupe, who this country ts losing $2,000,000 a year {a small mail West Indies through the refusal of our government to ternational ause oO postal deficit s in the plain fact tal service has never taken up the lines of carry ing business in wh ‘ rofit. Private greed cling rofitable end for t the pay The Washington for the special purpose of seeing to it that the postal de big express companies maintain a powerful lobby in partment does not take from them any part of the carrying business that pays profit The United States postoffice department is a half-century behind the age An Epoch-Making Victory BY HENRY GEORGE, JR Written Expressly for This Newspaperf. ‘Truly, the great labor army of the world m the march, We are seeing many evidences of It in the politics of this country, in Russia and elsewhere in B pe But it is to the British Isles that all eyes mus turn for the most remarkable signs of activity among the laboring masses. There has just been performed under our very eyes what at s moment ray later be judged to be a veritable civic revolution ative party, with its very large wept out of power and a great Libera’ For not only has the great ( majority in parliament, be majority, with a Labor pa: has the question of le of freedom of trade been indubitably and « agsinat it; not n been stricken dead as a door nail wing. & only and the pring asserted by the huge multitude of workers # tainly as in this country are relied upon to defend the protective tariff idea t there has occurred what in many of its aspects is a momentous class fight It has been in large degr owning and the great landless classes of Great Britain. And the a stroggle between the great f = landiess have won. ‘ As is well known, the ¢ Great Britain ts contered in few hands. The system of taxation fosters this, Some of the land fs taxed on a valuation made in the time of Charles II, more than tw centuries ago. Much of it is taxed upon a vals what income it yields, so that wide tracts of ve instance, is being turned inte hunting pr nominal revenue to its owner, is assessed cities It is so. Theae owners act as if G Britain and Ireland for them a But this recent election Im the British Isles means the beginning ot the end of this sort of thing. Richard Cobden had declared in 1841: “I hope to see societies formed calling upon the legislature to proportion to the revalue the land, and put a taxation upon wants of the state.” So likewise Sir Henry Campbell-Ranunerman has in the past few years made many speeches in favor of taxing landlordiam and re mitting taxation from labor And this principle now seems certain 1 embodied in the British laws before a great while. Ail t a. bell nerman ministry are in favor of it, wh the best advices, nearly all the rails elected in aded rish pbers and say erve coo NEW TELEPHONES oar e * . |Half a Million Teutons in Country Ready to Do + GERMANY'S MANDS IN POCKIEN® ¢ , 2h, Kaiser's Bidding in Effort to Hoist Flag of Em- {00 ;oenvation of Himes wes an eve othe pire--Portuguese Republic in the Coils of Ger- + ww ical iu mind, Germany bas bes pry 2. man Financial Thralldom. oes Wore Brasil now to edopt & severe a toward Germany hw © ' ee * German authorities at home, acting, have been made lecturing that the | ¢ i , e * Hee a ene eee eee een eee cir Desciting on. (TAA RAREGRETENERORERAR EEN Oe to! toa , That is whet ¢ —— ee ‘ are doing. The ore are re ir ane & owing mor ling an organization to tink them e reeth end an antl selves toxether and to oppose th cling i» boing roused thar Matchless values for Seuntey's Shoppers ! | pe that are fa ng thels ntry by | the ¢ try to make progr ' ' price Shes he Influx of Germans, and the go Bra mbat this att t ve rte 2he | and ay “ ading t alry bh da 1 f b | | Large | ’ t ™ “ P RIO DE JANEIRO—Germany is;splcuous than the Brasilian | hieff ‘8 Halr : ‘ r | prepa for the time when she|scttiements tn’ tha country as tne} Dutty's M orgy. | roe de rin o Ham another ia | y ay fow years an unending line of Ger. | fe to assist the —--——- | - ® nye: ltem nateree do not assimilate with | t the ‘eulons to b wme | the Latin 8 A rome nme and 4 n ac ath “Amanat | M ote ail ot rer amg seen oO gn OR mpa the dian. | s | Im the southern part of Braxt |neatic ( ations oration, pt | Germany, throw or wom «| Hare m. ba suet a map of the | realty the pr at : at power = f Hanta Cat ertne i " ° ' ss Pa " is eg Many of towns there are Ger-| Hira with the German ¢ he Quak LEE DELIV ERIES to he « | man in form it government, |colored and declared to be | M 40, Ind. 1240 ” | anguage and even in the use ti man colb@ies os T te “ —=— eee I, Seema sare a Beg | The QUAKER DRUG CO aeineiainiaaemeatanin iam { 10133-1055 First Avense s- STAR DUST » Shoes Reduced Numbor 580 This line of Burt & Packard's $4 Shoes to be discontinued. Now SETTING HER RIGHT. young man without a single bad Miss Hlawsome Did you say that habit except Ketch came to see me xcept wh Beans y he was mean! ed president S@ SESE Teeteczke FEe&ctren asked the surpris and stop the elo Except stealing e on “at Rony m must have told you TOO MUCH OF IT. 4 he was ugly enough to| The Doctor: “Bo there's bad blood J tween you the new cook al-| ready, is there | | A WORD PROM JOSH WISH The Professor to tell the | truth, she does serve steak tc } (= rare 1 | Raymond & Hoyt 916 First Avenue gaz = SERB See BEF MAGNIFICENT SET OF 8! ch FOX FURS, WHICH ARE A PART OF MISS ALICK ROOSEVELT'S TROUSSEAL dan ‘¥ NEW RK, Fe T t The moff w © of the la ‘ e shop of a a «rat « « rq. [include a nificent ext of f . Mie t af cot a of t from the | w wing t a PS EMPLOYING ABOUT 800 MEN GOING at this is , t with pele era "S$ MEADOW GARDENS. Absolutely certa : py . he ha . t and very Large t 00 feet long eale 8 ca ae hs ; et - moath need several men to work@e I rat 1” ot ; ‘ b { atent 1 t 2) Salesmen . adam,” explained : - ale i rue Se at --leige : , PIANOS yon't any anything ba : Don’t Forget It " planoe at lower rates and on easier payment nk He wa: e be ash € f th ¢ house in the city r had and Z a d pal k fe Cs chal youre man, witht & single Ppa & Tee & | Y Attended ERS Cl soda 7a ee er ave ou tte e KOHLER & CHASE 0S Serond Avenve. Cc. A. MEYER, Mun wy war et wnirmations pied eT Our Removal Sale? RUSBER BOOTS. LED CLOTHING R STORE, 4 First Ave Every g in Rubber” Gibeong Lic C172 editions trom you CWagnneeeC Mqoe’s7a2 : Phones 416 Bigger, Brighter, Better Than Ever Eastern Outfitting Co., (ic) Se, en Gk ICAGO OR Come and See—Seeing 1s Believing Cor. Pike St. and Fifth Ave. ng oy lene sFit part aa THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY ™ ‘ t nm Street SS ats Pr