Well, the government for years has made little noticeable effort to give the people better and cheaper parcels accommodation in its mail service. That is, the _executive_ arm of the national government has done so. The legislative arm of the national government has _uniformly_, though never unanimously, _opposed_ any and every measure intended to increase the _service_ value of parcel mail-carriage to the people. “Why have U. S. congressmen and senators opposed?” _They have opposed, because the party caucuses of the House and the Senate have been and are dominated and controlled by men who were and are opposed to such legislation._ Still, the government, executive or legislative, has probably spent no money and has certainly made little noise to defeat the establishment of a better and cheaper parcels post service. Now, if it is not the people themselves nor the people’s government who are making all the parcels post noise, _buying_ newspaper space and putting up money to _steer country merchants and others into organizing and petitioning against increased parcel facilities in the mails_--if it is not the people trying to bubble themselves nor the government trying to bubble the people, I wonder who it is? Who is putting up for the _fuel and oil_ to run this anti-parcels post _opinion-molding_ sulky-rake, which has been so vigorously, so industriously and so _designedly_ dragged over the mental hay-fields of the American _hoi polloi_ during recent years? What’s the answer? Unless, of course, one has taken on an over-load of this anti-parcels post tonnage, thereby giving his _feelings_ a chance to hip-lock or strangle-hold his intelligence, he’ll not need to browse around long for an answer. You have a boy working at Blue Island or Elgin, Illinois. Mother in Chicago wants to send him a Christmas present. If it weighs no more than four pounds she can send it by mail, paying _one cent an ounce_. If she wants to feel sure that her boy gets it, she can “register” the parcel, _paying ten cents more_. If the parcel weighs _the fraction of an ounce more_ than four pounds, mother _cannot send it to her boy through the mail service at all_. If the parcel weighs exactly four pounds, then our Uncle Samuel will deliver it at Blue Island or at Elgin when mother puts up _sixty-four cents_--seventy-four, if mother wants to feel sure that her boy gets it and for that reason has the parcel “registered.” That is one case--one _statement of fact_.