That is bad. “Why?” Well, because an “ambitious” politician is about as useful to us, to you and to me, as are bugs in our potato patch, or dry rot in our sheep herd. The “ambitious” politician is a disease, attacking either our kitchen garden or our mutton supply. “What’s the answer?” Here is one answer: It is a long way between “three rooms rear and a palace.” But even they who crawl about the earth, begging for leave to live, _see_ things, _hear_ things, _feel_ things, and _read_ things. They are beginning to _understand_ much of what they _see_, _hear_, _feel_ and _read_. Is that, Mr. Hitchcock, a reason, one of the reasons, why you who have so energetically, likewise offensively, tried to shut us out from our main source of information, from our mental commissary? Arise, please, and answer. There are still other remarks which I must make about Mr. Hitchcock’s peculiar _recent_ action and talk. It may not be at all pleasant to him. Yet the statements I shall make, I am ready to support by a “cloud of witnesses.” As before stated, this attempt to muzzle the press of the country, for that appears to be the ultimate, likewise the _ulterior_, purpose of Mr. Hitchcock and his coterie of senatorial and other abettors in their recent attempt to outrage the _constitutional_ rights of our people, the _constitutional_ rights of the Lower House and the rules of both Senate and House, as Senator Robert L. Owen, in brief but pertinent remarks in the recent closing days of the late session (February 25, 1911), pointed out,--remarks rife with the cogency of truth. In a previous paragraph I stated, in effect, that Postmaster General Hitchcock is an “influenced” man or a densely ignorant one. That he _is_ densely ignorant on matters pertaining to periodical publications has been amply evidenced by subsequent quotations from his own reports and letters. That he at least shares the prevailing ignorance as to the methods, and the _result_ of methods, for handling the vast business of the federal Postoffice Department, I have already pointed out.