From Report Of Postmaster General Payne For 1902

“Millions of our people live more or less remote trovo any post office, and a very large proportion of them are not able to buy money orders or bank drafts without great inconvenience. It is not unreasonable to expect from the government that it will provide an easy, convenient, and safe method to transmit small sums, say $2 or less in amount, without putting the sender to the inconvenience and expense which now obtains in the purchase of a draft of post office money order.

“I urge upon congress the importance of passing some law, so that our people may have the advantage of it at as early a date as possible. Hundreds of thousands of letters carrying amounts in silver or postage are transmitted every year through the mails. These letters are a constant temptation to those handling them, as it is easy to identify letters including currency. 

“With the extension of the rural free delivery service to the remote parts of the country, the use of postal checks would go far to provide the relief so urgently demanded, as it would conveniently serve those sections of the country not heretofore covered by or adjacent to money order offices or the banks of the country.” 

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New York Nation: It is something of a coincidence that congress met on the very day that the International Shipping Trust went into operation. Senator Frye sees in this conjunction one argument more for passing the ships-subsidy bill. Here is this vast combine, willing to spend $50,000,000 on new steamers if congress will only furnish half the money. The Maine senator is no doubt in earnest, but if he makes such a proposal on the floor of congress it will be received with shouts of laughter. A bill to pension Croesus would have as little chance of passing. Ship subsidies are dead, nor does it require a post-mortem to determine what killed them. Mr. Morgan did it with his little syndicate. 

Let us pray that the Nation may be correct in its opine.

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The beet sugar manufacturers are sure they are going to be ruined, if a 20 per cent taste of reciprocity is given Cuba, still it is to be observed that it is not very difficult to find money to invest in the manufacture of beet sugar.