People happy in the enjoyment of unearned wealth seldom make good, safe or dependable judges or lawmakers for people who are unhappy. There may be, of course, some rare exceptions to that statement. The history of twenty centuries, however--yes, of forty centuries--has shown very few of them. This may appear to some as a digression from my subject. Well, so count it, if you will. I have made it as a “foreword” for three statements I wish to make--statements cogently asserted in support of an assertion made some paragraphs back. Mr. Hitchcock, in both action and advocacy, has not only been a conspicuous member, as newspapers and other reports show, but a leading factor, in the gang of “influenced” mercenaries and aspiring politicians who sought to “submerge” certain periodicals which for ten or more years _have been telling the people the truth--the truth about crooked corporation practices and about crooked public officials_. I am here going to make those three statements. I believe them statements of _fact_. Think them over. _Study_ them. If, after, you think I am wrong or overstate the facts, then--well, then, that is your affair, not mine. Remember, I write with a _club_--not a pencil. The first of the three statements I wish here to make is: The social and political polity which patriotic and liberty-loving progenitors gave us, established for us, has been adroitly led from its prescribed way. Today our governmental and social organizations are _rich in policemen, soldiers, prisons, poorhouses, organized charities, charity balls, owners of unearned wealth and in politicians who helped those owners to acquire that unearned wealth and who furthermore continue to protect them in its possession_. The second statement I wish my readers to consider is: The periodical monthlies and weeklies (and a few “yellow” newspapers), which Mr. Hitchcock and his coterie of conspirators would muzzle or, by laying an excessive mail rate upon them, suppress or ruin--and incidentally, make the Postmaster General _an unrestrained censor of the country’s periodical literature_---- Those periodicals, I started to say, have given more _real_ educational benefit to the adult population of this country during the past ten years _than has been given by all the “little red school houses,” colleges, universities, and churches combined_. I do not, as you will notice, include the “political stump.” I do not care to comment on its peculiar didactic value or fascination for fools. That means both you and me, reader. We each, occasionally, go to hear the political “stumper” tell us a lot of _“influenced” lies_. The third statement I wish to make is: Postmaster General Hitchcock is, so far as the writer has been able to learn, a politician. Not only is he a politician, the reports read, but he is a wise, smooth and “_ambitious_” politician.