ather than to the taxpayer. The Post Office is not like a
private business. Parliament has established a monopoly, and has fixed
certain rates of postage. If Parliament chose to relax that monopoly, or
to reduce those rates of postage, the profit would straightway
disappear. It does not do so, because it desires to retain for the
Exchequer the sums so brought.

"Parliament has also established the sixpenny telegram, extended the
telegraph service into remote rural districts, and has given very cheap
rates to the Press. This has resulted in the telegraphs being worked at
a loss of over a million a year. No one would suggest that it would be
just, because of this loss, to reduce the wages of the men and women
employed in the telegraph service, and it is equally beside the mark to
quote the profits on the postal side as though the pay of the staff
should be determined by their amount."--The Right Hon. Herbert Samuel,
British Postmaster General, to a deputation from the staff, 19th
November 1913.

[758] Pekin.

[759] From the _British Official Records_.

[760] Exeter.

[761] From the _British Official Records_.

[762] From the _British Official Records_ (undated).

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Transcriber's Notes

With the exception of a few minor punctuation corrections, changes have
been made to the text only as follows:

Footnote 240: "Werte" changed to "Werke" (zu Werke gegangen)

Footnote 240: "bedeutender" changed to "bedeutende" (...hatte die
Erleichterungen ohne bedeutende Opfer aus der Postkasse erkauft)

Footnote 250: "Reichs-Post" changed (added hyphen) to "Reichs-Post-"
(Die Finanzen der Reichs-Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung)

Footnote 251: "Post" changed (hyphen added) to "Post-" (Entwickelung des
deutschen Post- und Telegraphenwesen)

Page 174: added closing parenthesis in "(Hauptblattes)"

Footnote 384: "Jahrengeklagt" changed to "Jahren geklagt" (Das sind
Erscheinungen, [:u]ber die seit Jahren geklagt wird)

Footnote 384: "Bl[:a]tte" changed to "Bl[:a]tter" (Wenn Sie beide
Bl[:a]tter nun auf ihren Inhalt pr[:u]fen,...)

Footnote 387: "worden" changed to "werden" (...es soll ein anderer Tarif
aufgestellt werden.)

Footnote 390: "vorgeben" changed to "vorgehen" (gleichfalls mit einer
Erm[:a]ssigung des Abonnementspreises hat vorgehen m[:u]ssen)

Footnote 398: "erachten" changed to "erachtet" (derjenigen Zeitung oder
Zeitschrift erachtet werden k[:o]nnen)

Footnote 435: "