The reader may _know_--no need of _guessing_--that those insuperable obstacles are _stoking_ the engines which are “yarding” public opinion--and much honest, but superficial or careless, _private opinion_--where it will yield _unearned_ revenues to the stokers. Any man who argues _against_ cheapening our parcels post rates is merely a _hired_ angler for suckers or a sharer in the spoils which railroad and express raiders are looting from the people. I recently heard one of those patriotic hired “cappers” talk to his job. Among his forceful points were the following: “The big express companies employ nearly 100,000 men. “Their payroll (officials included), is nearly $50,000,000 a year. “Roosevelt added 99,000 names to the federal pay roll during his seven years in office. “There are about 70,000 postoffices in the United States and an improved parcels post service would require an additional clerk in each. Therefore 70,000 more tax-eaters would be added to the federal payrolls. “There was a _deficit_ of $6,000,000 piled up in the Postoffice Department last year. To what _appalling_ figures would that deficit mount if a parcels post were established?” Now, I want to ask a few questions. First, those 100,000 men employed by the big express companies and who are paid the colossal sum of $50,000,000 in salaries. The express companies neither employ so many men nor pay so much money. But if they did, that is an _average_ of but $500 a year to each employe. Do you think those 100,000 express men would lose any _killing_ amount in annual salary if the government took the whole bunch of them bodily over and put them into a parcels post service? So much for those alleged 100,000 express company _employes_, concerning whose interests and welfare the _anti_-parcel post bunk-shooter _appears_ to have had a pain in his lap or bunions on his mind. Now, how about the 90,000,000 or more people who make up the rest of us folks in these United States? How would we come out in the ledger account if a good, efficient and _cheap_ parcels post service was put into operation and the “big express companies” put out of business? It is quite impossible to figure it out to the cent. The _public_ reports of those big express companies, likewise their system of double cross bookkeeping, prevent us getting nearer than about eight blocks of their “inside information.” But some of the _governing facts_ we know and others must _necessarily_ follow in _any_ process or method of reasoning recognized outside the harmless ward of a crazy house.