We cannot agree with those who denounce the tendency of
the Post Office to make profit. On the contrary, we hope to see the interest of the National Debt one day paid out of the profits of the Post, State Telegraph, State Railway, and State Life Assurance Departments, but we heartily concur in the recommendations of Mr. Graves, the Member for Liverpool, when he advises the Post Office to give cheaper money orders, a lower rate for the registra-
tion of letters, a scheme for the insurance of registered letters, a sixpenny rate for telegraphic messages, and a parcel post. Every one of those schemes would pay, and so, we believe, would a scheme for insuring telegraph messages, and the establishment of Pre- ference Wire with very high rates of charge, say, a shilling a word, and a guarantee that the message should be sent instantly by the fastest available conveyance. And we also agree that to exclude the Postmaster-General from the Cabinet, thus depriving him of his independence, is an administrative mistake. Serious blunders made by him ought to affect the Government.
Previous page
