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The Oneida Wig does us lplusuce III arguing
that. because we dislike that clause III Gen. Hsr-
din's Postage Reduction bill which sllows erery
Newspaper TO circulate free Of POSTAGE through
out its own County therefore wc are IN faror oi
the present rates OF Newspaper Postage, or the
basis On which they are adjusted. This Is not
merely untrue, but contrary 10 cur repeated argu-
ments and acts. More than year ago, We per
sonally urged upon the Committee, and upon
Members OF both Houses, the absolute justice 10
the Country Press OF reducing The Rates OF Post
age ON Newspapers carried short distances. Oar
schedule OF Rates, as we thought t'ey shoald be,
proposed that Week. Newspapers conveyed less
than fifty miles should be charged but th'rtee"
ceats a year, while much higher ta'es sh5uid ee
charged for all greater distances We haze pub
lished that schedule and repeatedly advocated
this provision especially, and now the wing re-
presents us as wishing TIE Tribune to circulate
in Oneida County charged with she sane Postage
as the Wing! Is this candida


We do indeed coade;na the clause IA question:
| though we have urged the friends Of cheap Post
age 10 tGhe Tue OH dS IL - !o.iiSi '''@'A '' -
passage The designation OF Couoties IS most
arbitrary, since soma S;ates have no Counties,
and those of Louisiana contain 5000 to 5000
| square miles each, while there are many Coun-
ties which do not embrace hundfedth part as
much. What justice, then, IN allowing some pa
oers carried fifty miles 10 pass free OF Postage,
while others (many OF ours) not carried fire miles
would have to pay2


Bat our deeper objection strikes at The root of
the matter. 8 We deny the rightfulness of makiog
one man pay TOO much in arder to accommodate
other men FOR nothing. On what principle shah
the Government do it Our subscribers avail
themselves of the Maii--let thea pey for it as
they ought-but let them no. pay for carrying
other peoples papers, and let nol others pay for
them. It is crooked logic 10 argue thai, bccau;c
the present Rates are wrong, therefore another
wrong should be inflicted Tie ncws papers car.
ricd less than fifty miles ought to be charged as
low as possble-say len cents year if sou think
it will pay, and that thiriecnis is too hgh-bnt LET
US get rid Of the Franking Privilege rather tilan
| extend it. If the man who reads L paper can't
afford to pay York philljng year iol liz con
| vsyance to him, who can afford it7 Ii he ought
not to pay ii, who ought