We have an Interstate Commerce Commission. It has been on the job ever since John Sherman put it on duty. Sherman knew what he intended--_wanted_--it to do. Did it do what he and the rest of us depended on it to do? Well, not to any noticeable extent. It spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money while it _permitted_ the railroads and express companies to rebate, “differential” and “short” and “long” haul us out _of hundreds of millions of easy or stolen dollars_. O yes! of course the Interstate Commerce Commission is, of late, getting down to business--getting down to the work John Sherman _intended it to do when he drafted the bill which created it_. Why has that commission finally arrived at its starting point? Why is it now trying to do--and trying, even yet, to do it in a _loose, dilatory way_--what Sherman intended it to do? “Why?” Why, simply because the people have finally learned--thanks largely to the enlightenment given them by the independent periodicals of the country--that they have been governmentally treated as fools--that they have been treated as sheep to furnish fleece and mutton for a few who feast and wear fine raiment, _yet earn it not_. O yes, the people have learned some things and they, recently, have been learning rapidly. It is the people who have _learned_ who have virtually _kicked_ the Interstate Commerce Commission into dutiful action. No, I positively do not like government by commission, and especially do I not like government of our postal service, or any phase, feature or division of it, by a “Commission of Postal Appeals” or by any other commission, however dignified its title may be. Any suggestion or recommendation of such a commission is, to The Man on the Ladder, but a suggestion and recommendation to further load an already _overloaded_ service. By that, I mean that the service now rendered by the Federal Postoffice Department is not nearly commensurate with the number of employes carried on its payrolls or with its expenditures, and that the creation of a commission--any postal commission--will only add names to the department payrolls and thousands of dollars to its already excessive expenditures. In closing my consideration of this Penrose-Overstreet Commission’s report--a report which Mr. Hitchcock appears to have taken some “hunches” from while it also appears he gave very little or no study or consideration to the vast amount of informative data it collected and _filed_--I desire to make a statement or two and then ask a pertinently impertinent question or two.