The dangers of a flat rate, "The Times" proceeds, is obvious, for it tempts foreign competition to under~ sell on short distances and withdraw from the contest on long distances. It would be useless, therefore, to risk 'a change unless the rate could not fonly be made uniform, but boldly and drastically reduced.
"The Governments have mide such Gnaneial concessions to the Company enable this to be done.
'This important reform, the newspaper says, will be welcomed as both the cause' and consequence of Imperial unity. Its achievement depended on the close collaboration in fan advisory committee of the re~ Presentatives of many governments Without the help of any common over-riding authority.
The new scale is, in effect, "The Times adds, a wise and far-sighted endowment of those multitudinous Individual relationships which, inter twined across all oceans, maintain the ultimate unity of spirit upon, which the whole Commonwealth relies for its name and purpose.
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