Review of reviews and world's work . PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON. has been subjected to the most immoderate personalcriticisms. These animadversions have to do, how-^ever, not so much with his conduct in ofiiceaswithhis activity in collecting campaign funds in 1888,his mercantile business in Philadelphia, and hiszeal in Sunday-school work. ]Mr. Wanamaker de-serves the praise of all good citizens for the and tlie great energy he has infused intothe administration of his department. It is hislaudable ambition to transform the incomplete andfossilized postal service of the United
Review of reviews and world's work . PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON. has been subjected to the most immoderate personalcriticisms. These animadversions have to do, how-^ever, not so much with his conduct in ofiiceaswithhis activity in collecting campaign funds in 1888,his mercantile business in Philadelphia, and hiszeal in Sunday-school work. ]Mr. Wanamaker de-serves the praise of all good citizens for the and tlie great energy he has infused intothe administration of his department. It is hislaudable ambition to transform the incomplete andfossilized postal service of the United States intoa modern system, using the best scientific appliancesof the times. He has the splendid audacity to make 138 THE REI^IEIV Of RE^ HoX. JAMES G. BLAIiVE. official reports which advocate one-cent letter post-age, three-cent telephone messages, and ten-centtelegraph messages, as near possibilities mider anenlightened and compact postal system. He arguesstrenuously for postal savings banks, is extending thefree-delivery S5stem everywhere, is increasing themoney-order offices by many thousands, and isworking with might and main for a score of greatpostal reforms which, taken together, would be ofimmeasurable benefit to the people, especially in therural districts, and which, when fairly presentedand understood, must arouse a popular enthusiasmthat no opposition can withstand. Whatever ir-relevant things may be alleged against Mr. Wana-maker, he is earning the right to be called a greatPostmaster-General. If his ardor for modern im-provements and for a great service worthy the in-ventive and organizing ability of this nation shouldat times seem to overbalance his practical judgment,the fault lies chiefly in the apathy
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