Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1900 — Free Rural Delivery Has Lome To Stay. [ARTICLE]

Free Rural Delivery Has Lome To Stay.

Ooe of the campaign “rubbernecks” our Democratic friends circulated very persistently was the assertion that the roral free mail delivery system was only a campaign measure and that the routes would soon be abandoned, after the election: Instead of that being true, however, the establishing of new routes goes right ahead, in every part of the country, and it is now a settled fact that rural free delivery has to stay. Its extension will continue, until, finally it will be the general rule, instead of, as now, a frequent exception. The syßte,m is no new experiment except in this country. It been the universal rule in Great Britian and other European nations, for years, and the reason why this country has lagged behind the leading nations of Europe in adopting rural delivery is the very obvious one, that“onr sparser population makes the system mnob more expensive in proportion to the business done, The fact however that Americans receive and send so much more.mail in proportion to their numbers than other people, goes far towards equalizing the disadvantage of sparser population, and the extensive experiments already made demonstrate that the system can now be generally, though gradually, adopted in this country.