The important point, however, is: Are we fools enough to think it? If so, how long shall we continue to be fools enough to think it? If not, is it not about time that we created a disturbance--that we raise some dust--in efforts to let these raiders and their cappers know we are not fools? Why should we continue to act foolish if we are not fools? Please rise, Mr. Sensible Citizen, and answer. As before said, no one expects nor desires the government to _make money_ out of _their_ mail service. People have, however, _a right_ to expect--_and to demand_--that their regularly chosen representatives and other government officials _prevent_ a lot of raiders, or any one else for that matter, from making more than a _fair, legitimate profit_ on what they do for or contribute to that service. There has been much talk the last three or four years about the economies effected by the Postoffice Department in the execution of the work it was established to do. How much of this talk is grounded on fact and how much of it is mere political gargle and party and administration “fan”-talk I shall not here attempt to say. Time has not permitted me to look into these averred economies carefully and thoroughly enough to warrant positive statements from me anent them here. I am inclined to believe, however, that the present Postmaster General, Mr. Hitchcock, and his immediate predecessors, Mr. Meyer and Mr. Cortelyou, have really accomplished a little in the right direction--a little, where the Lord knows we _should_ know there was much to accomplish. But, as stated, my favorable opinion is not based on what I have dug up myself about these economies alleged to have been effected in the recently passed years. If they have been effected, their accomplishment only goes to prove that advocates of a cheap parcels post in this country have been _right_ in their facts and arguments, and also that their exposures and severe condemnation of the waste, extravagance, grafting and _stealing_ in the postal service were timely and well deserved.