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Teddy Roosevelt: “It would seem only proper that such an experiment should be tried in order to demonstrate the practicability of the…”

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It would seem only proper that such an experiment should be tried in order to demonstrate the practicability of the proposition, especially as the Postmaster-General estimates that the revenue derived from the operation of such a system on all the rural routes would amount to many million dollars.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt supports testing the expansion of parcel post services to rural areas for potential revenue.

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