June, 1907, began to pay extra postage 2,840 July, 1907 2,973 August, 1907 2,921 September, 1907 2,875 October, 1907 2,761 November, 1907 2,604 December, 1907 2,260 January, 1908 1,536 February, 1908 1,330 March, 1908 1,170 April, 1908 1,350 May, 1908 1,300 June, 1908 1,363 July, 1908 1,360 August, 1908 1,407 September, 1908 1,348 October, 1908 1,357 November, 1908 1,381 December, 1908 1,299 January, 1909 1,095 February, 1909 1,163 March, 1909 1,263 April, 1909 1,321 May, 1909 1,355 June, 1909 1,353 July, 1909 1,369 August, 1909 1,371 September, 1909 1,382 October, 1909 1,237 November, 1909 1,278 December, 1909 1,227 _January, 1910_ _904_ February, 1910 974 March, 1910 1,129 February, 1911 2,690 The next exhibit (“Exhibit E”) of the publishers shows quite conclusively “that it would be ruinous to them to raise the rates in the manner proposed,” and Senator Owen presents their plea. I am going to reprint here their plea as presented in “Exhibit E,” but in doing so The Man on the Ladder desires to remark that the argument, as it has been megaphoned into our ears for the past three or four decades, that an increase of tax rate (whatever the nature of the tax), or a reduction of the tariff or selling rate would be “ruinous,” does not cut much kindling in his intellectual woodshed. It has been entirely a too common yodle either to interest or to instruct any intelligent man who has been watching the play and listening to the concert for forty years. This “ruinous” talk has been out of the cut glass, Louis XVI, Dore, Dolesche and other high-art classes ever since Mrs. Vanderbilt, as was alleged, discovered that Chauncey M. Depew was merely her husband’s servant, just as was her coachman.