In the past twenty-five or thirty years it has been conclusively shown that the postoffice department, _en tout_, knows about as much concerning the _railroad_ end of the railway mail service as a mongrel spitz poodle knows of astronomy. So I might comment on other names mentioned in the write-up of this “shake-up” of our Postmaster General. They have all _been_ good men. Possibly they each and all are good men _yet_--for the jobs to which the Postmaster General has promoted or demoted them. The people may appreciate and even honor Jim Jones because he “worked his way up” from mail carrier on a rural route at Rabbit Hash, Mississippi, to Superintendent of the Cincinnati Division or the St. Paul Division of the railway mail service, and even more so, if he got stilted to the position of “Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service.” Still, listen. While we, the people, at Rabbit Hash, Mississippi, may be entirely satisfied to see our boy, Jim Jones, move up the ladder to official honor and salary, how about you other 93,760,000 people? You want prompt, cheap service in the railway mail and our Jim Jones fails to give it to you,--_fails when you know the conditions and the facilities are at call and command to give it to you_. What is the answer? Simply that you 93,760,000 other folks may not think so well of our Jim Jones’ railway mail service ability--or business ability--as we of Rabbit Hash may think. Now I have said enough about Postmaster General Hitchcock’s “shake-up.” What I have not said the intelligent reader will readily infer--_and there is a whole lot to be inferred_. At the outset I intended to quote Mr. Hitchcock--quote Mr. Hitchcock himself--in evidence or proof of my previously made and repeated statement, that the Postoffice Department is incompetently, is _wastefully_, if not crookedly, managed and directed. I am now going to quote Mr. Hitchcock. Of course, he here speaks of only the railway mail service. It is admittedly one of the worst divisions for _waste and steal_. But there are others scarcely a neck behind. The subjoined dispatch states (March 31, 1911), that “while signing the orders necessary for the changes Mr. Hitchcock said:” The investigation which we conducted so long and so carefully indicated clearly that the action which I have taken was absolutely necessary. _The railway mail service has suffered greatly from poor management and lack of supervision._ In certain of the divisions it was found that the chief clerks had not been inspecting their lines, as was their duty. _Some of the routes had received no inspection for several years._ …