Those “few” would be benefited, would they not?
Among our folks are, counting families as before, not less than 16,000,000 domestic servants, saloon, hotel and restaurant people, policemen, firemen, soldiers, sailors and laborers “not elsewhere specified.”
Those “few” would be benefited, would they not?
Next, we have around 12,000,000 of bookkeepers, clerks, agents, operators, teamsters, etc., “engaged in trade and transportation,” again counting “the little ones at home” but not counting the “retail merchants” nor the railway manipulators.
Those “few” would be benefited, would they not?
Next, we may enumerate among our people, doctors, lawyers, teachers and other professional folks, counting their folks at home the same as before, some 7,000,000.
Those “few” would be benefited, would they not.
Next we have—
But we have already found about ninety-one millions of the “few people” among our folks who would be benefited by a cheap, serviceable parcels post. That leaves somewheres around four millions to be accounted for.
Again, including dependent families not less than 3,000,000 of that number can be classed as retail merchants. Half of that 3,000,000 are merchants, dealers, manufacturers, etc., in the “larger cities,” whom even the opponents of the parcels post have agreed would be benefited by its service. At any rate it has been demonstrated by organizations of merchants in the large cities that parcel deliveries within a radius of thirty or forty miles of their stores, which had cost from eight to fifty cents, can be made at an average cost not exceeding four cents.