Two hundred pounds of United States mail is railroaded in a general--a catch-all or pick-up--car at a government charge of 11.7 cents per mile, while you, the President, or other gentlemen, pay but 3 _cents_! You, and the other fellows as well, have an upholstered seat, have watering and toilet facilities and accommodations, have smoking, “pitch,” “high-five,” “cinch,” “euchre” and, maybe, even “poker” as divertisements--with palatable “wets” on the side! You, the President, and the other gentlemen, have all this _sumptuous haulage_ for _three_ (or two) _cents_ a mile, while the 200 pounds (_averaged every four years_) of United States mail, handled as junk or dunnage, pays 11.7 cents a mile. Does it not look--look to you--somewhat _off_ at the corners somewhere? Does it not look as if that railway “system” feeder line was getting robustly _large pay_ for the service rendered? Well, if it does not so appear to you, it appears to me that you should, at your earliest convenience, consult some qualified and competent alienist, or drop into a “rest resort” for six months or more. As to the other weights given in that tabulation--500, 1,000 and up to 5,000--nothing here needs be said. They are all below the “postoffice car” weights. At the weights, 5,000 pounds per day of mail-haul, the student of this rail-mail pay _raid_ should sit up and begin to observe his nurse and the attending physician. Before I further inflict the reader with personal comments, it might be of mutual advantage to quote a recognized authority on the weights actually carried in postal mail cars--weights of _actual_ mail. I take the following from the official report of the Penrose-Overstreet Commission, pages 30-31. “It is stated in the report of Dr. Henry C. Adams to the former Commission (Vol. II, 233), that-- “The average loading of the postoffice car, according to the testimony before the Commission is 2 tons. It must be admitted, in view of the great weight of these cars, that such loading _pays little regard to the requirements of economy_. It is doubtful if, on the basis of such loading, the railways could afford to carry mail at a rate much cheaper than it is now carried. On the other hand, if cars were loaded with 3½ tons, which Mr. Davis says is an easy load, or should the average load go as high as 6 tons, which, according to testimony, is accomplished on the Pennsylvania Railroad by a special train, I am confident that _railways operate upon a margin of profit in carrying mail that warrants a reduction in pay_.