The representative of the _American Newspaper Publishers’ Association_, speaking for the metropolitan daily press, stated that less than _6 per cent of their circulation went into the mail at all_, in many instances the proportion being as low as two-thirds of 1 per cent; that the radius of circulation was not more than 150 miles; that their mailings averaged _49 pounds per sack_, and that 93 per cent of all second-class matter going out of New York city, for example, _was already sorted and routed_. It was admitted, however, that while the newspapers _avail themselves of express and railway transportation_ for matter sent out in bulk, single copies sent to individual subscribers invariably went by mail. Postmaster General Hitchcock appears to have largely ignored the fact so clearly pointed out by the publishers in 1906--yes, pointed out as long ago as 1898--that second-class mail matter is a _large producer of the revenues_ received by the government from mail matter of the first, third and fourth classes. Following is a summary of what the publishers pointed out to the 1906-7 commission: There is an immense indirect revenue on second-class matter, due to the fact that second-class matter is itself the cause of a great volume of first-class matter, upon which the department reaps a handsome profit. While the extent to which first-class matter is thus indebted to second-class matter is necessarily indeterminate, attempts were made to illustrate it by particular instances. This was done by computing the amount of first-class mail arising, first, from the direct correspondence between a publisher and the readers, and secondly, from correspondence, between the readers and the advertisers, resulting from the insertion of the advertisements. In the instances chosen, the first-class matter thus stimulated appeared to be very considerable. Upon this basis it was argued that any reduction in the volume of second-class matter would inevitably be followed by a corresponding reduction in first-class matter. This would not only deprive the Postoffice Department of the revenue from the first-class matter, _but by diminishing the total weight of the mails would correspondingly increase the rate of mail pay_, so that the net result of the elimination of the socially valuable second-class matter would be an actual increase in the total cost of the service.