Extract from 
 
 "CONSTRUCTION” 
 
 Published at Pittsburg', June 10, 1905 
 
 THE POSTAL LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES 
 AS RELATED TO BUSINESS INTERESTS 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 Delivered before the Merchants’ and 
 Manufacturers’Association of 
 Pittsburg, at its Annual Ban¬ 
 quet at the Hotel Schenley, 
 
 June 6, 1905. by 
 
 MR. CHARLES WILLIAM BURROWS 
 President of The Burrows Brothers 
 Company, Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 Presented with the compliments of 
 The Burrows Brothers Company 
 
so high class houses as Browning, King & Com¬ 
 pany and many others. 
 
 AS' I HAVE SAID BEFORE, THE 
 GROWTH OF NEW PERIODICALS HAS 
 AVERAGED MORE THAN TEN A DAT, 
 SUNDAYS AND ALL INCLUDED, EVERY 
 DAY FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS, and it 
 is getting where you cannot see the woods for 
 the trees. And frankly, while I consider it of tire 
 utmost importance that every business organi¬ 
 zation and commercial body in the country 
 should unitedly band together to produce all the 
 sentiment possible to educate the public and 
 their congressional representatives on this sub¬ 
 ject, YET WE MUST LOOK FOR MORE 
 HELP FROM THE ASSISTANCE THAT 
 CAN AND SHOULD OF RIGHT BE REN¬ 
 DERED TO US BY THE DAILY AND 
 WEEKLY PAPERS AND THE BETTER 
 CLASS OF MONTHLY PERIODICALS 
 THAN IN ANY OTHER WAY. The en¬ 
 tire publicity machinery of the country has 
 up to within a short time been arrayed 
 upon the other side of the question, but 
 now the tide has turned. WHERE A DAILY 
 PAPER IS SAVING FROM EIVE'DOL- 
 LARS TO ONE HUNDRED ON ITS POST¬ 
 AGE BILLS THROUGH THE OPERA¬ 
 TION OF THIS LAW, IT IS LOSING 
 FROM ONE HUNDRED TO ONE THOU- 
 
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SAND DOLLARS ON ITS ADVERTISE 
 REVENUES. THE SAME ARGUMENT, 
 M1Y OPINION, ALSO APPLIES WI1 
 EQUAL STRENGTH TO THE BETTI 
 CLASS OF THE JOURNALS OF MONTlj 
 LY ISSUANCE, FOR WERE THE THOl 
 SANDS OF THEIR WEAK competitc 
 weeded out, they could procure their advertisirl 
 patronage far more cheaply and hold their rati 
 much more stiffly, and while they might nc 
 make money as swiftly as they have done in tli 
 past they would at least do so much more freell 
 than they can do if the law stands and the ur 
 checked flood of new competitors is permitte 
 to come into existence. 
 
 But, gentlemen, I have detained you ovei 
 long, and before I sit down I will thank you fo 
 your attention. 
 
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