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Rejecting again all idea of casting this expenditure upon the distant places and the pioneer, I insist that it should be borne by the Treasury rather than by remote letter-writers.
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Sumner argues that the financial burden of postal services should not fall on remote letter-writers but rather on the Treasury.
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