That statement is as true of the members of the 1906-7 commission and of Postmaster General Hitchcock as it is of Mr. William Mossback of Mossville, Connecticut. The “demand” of each of us--our _desire_ to possess this or that--is prompted--_is created_--by what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell or _read_ of it. We stand at the head of the nations of earth for progress in the various fields of mechanical improvement, from kitchen utensils to laundry equipment, from the plow to the electric crane. What is true of the progress of our people through the adoption of labor-saving mechanical devices, implements and machinery is correspondingly true in various other fields of progress--a progress largely the result of promoted “demand” for the better things, for the improvements of which our people have _read_ in our newspapers and in our monthly and weekly publications--yes, read of in the advertisements and in descriptive write-ups of such periodicals, if you will have it so. So this prattle about issuing a periodical “only to public demand” is not only prattle--it is not only unsound and unbusinesslike both in theory and service practice, but it is also a _stealthy attempt to garrote the facts_, likewise an attempt to subject the great publishing interests of the country to the _rankest kind of injustice_. How is the publisher to secure additional subscribers if he be denied mailing privilege to sample copies? True, the bill recommended by this commission would allow the publisher to mail sample copies to the extent of ten per cent of his subscribed issue. Mr. Hitchcock, however, as I shall shortly show, proposes to exclude _all_ sample copies from the mails. The following is quoted from Mr. Hitchcock’s 1910 report and shows that the Postoffice Department, as at present directed, is determined to curb the growth and development of periodical literature in this country in every way possible--ways that scruple not at _biased rulings and grossly unjust distinctions_. In the following Mr. Hitchcock is after what he is pleased to designate as an “abuse of the sample-copy privilege.” In order to discontinue the privilege of mailing sample copies at the cent-a-pound rate, legislation in substantially the following form is suggested: That so much of the act approved March 3, 1885 (23 Stat., 387), as relates to publications of the second class be amended to read as follows: “That hereafter all publications of the second-class, except as provided by Section 25 of the act of March 3, 1879 (20 Stat., 361), _when sent to subscribers_ by the publishers thereof and from the known offices of publication, or when sent from news agents to subscribers thereto or to other news agents for the purpose of sale, _shall be entitled to transmission through the mails at one cent a pound or fraction thereof_, such postage to be prepaid as now provided by law.”