Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — Public Documents. [ARTICLE]

Public Documents.

All public documents are sold by the British Government; nothing is given away. If you want a copy of n bIA or report you must buy It from the official printers, and you have to pay postage if it is sent through the mails. In our country nearly all official documents of this kind are given away, and are sent free through the mails under a frank. The British plan seems to 'be the more sensible. It saves millions of doUars every year that are wanted in the United States to furnish public documents to people who do not care anything for them, and who throw them into the waste-paper basket as soon as they are received.