And you gentlemen who vote away the people’s money for services _not_ rendered--which you _know_ will not be rendered when you vote to “burn” the money--will, before those independent periodicals are through with the recent sand-bagging attempt to censor or control their _published thought_--you will learn, I mean to say, that people want _service_ not revenues; that they want “duty,” as an engineer would name it, not a _coached_ prattle about B. T. U. or other legislative and official thermics.
Now, let us look back at that quotation--at some of the points in it I have italicized.
First paragraph quoted: Aside from small country dailies--now carried by mail to addresses inside the county of publication free--and fraternal papers, Sunday School sheets and similar publications, there are few periodicals published in this country which weigh two ounces or less.
First paragraph following tabulation: “The rate would average 1⅞ cents per pound” for periodicals weighing two pounds.
A glance at the table shows that the piece or copy rate on a periodical weighing 28 ounces is given as 3¼ cents. A periodical weighing two pounds, or 32 ounces, would be charged a half cent more, or 3¾ cents for mail carriage and delivery, instead of 2 cents as now.
Second paragraph following the table, also in last paragraph quoted: “Normal” periodicals.
What is a “normal” periodical? Are the 4 or 8 page weeklies published in the back counties and the small religious, college, Sunday school and fraternal sheets that weigh two ounces or less “normal” periodicals? Are the dailies of our large cities, weighing from four to twelve ounces, “normal” periodicals? Is the Saturday Evening Post, weighing from ten to twenty ounces a “normal” periodical?
Are any of the periodicals in the following descriptive list “normal?”
The newspapers and other periodicals named in the following tabulation are those I could find within convenient, likewise hurried, reach. I tried to get them as near concurrent dates as I could. The tabulation will show the reader the proportion of advertising to body matter, printed in the different periodicals on the dates named.
Readers particularly interested in the data presented in the tabulation should, however, understand that for the newspapers listed, no account was taken of the “write-up” or “promotion” advertising printed as reading matter. Some newspapers, at certain times, carry a considerable amount of such paid matter while the standard monthly and weekly periodicals carry little or none of it at any time: