The Congress now in session is giving, or will give, this recommendation serious consideration, it is presumed. Especially will it be given such serious consideration when the 1911-12 bill, making appropriations for the postal service, is under fire and is being “savagely attached by its friends.” It may be depended upon that the express and railroad gentlemen now shearing a rich fleece from your Uncle’s postal fold will not have any _fair_ tests made of a parcels post service so long as they can prevent it, and they appear to have numerous representatives in both houses of Congress who can be influenced to prevent it, if their past talk and _votes_ may be taken as indicating _what they are there for_. Of course, the chief clack of the enemy’s hired men is “lack of funds.” Yet they go on appropriating _millions to people who do not earn it_--to pay for services _not rendered_. The same kippered tongue lashed the “rural delivery” service the _same_ way. In the end, the people won. But they won, in the bill as originally passed, a rural delivery of the “test” variety. “Why?” Well, a properly equipped and serviceable rural delivery would be a step towards a serviceable parcels post and the raiders do not want the people to have such a parcels post. As samples of the _sort_ of “friendly feeling” manifest in Congress toward a parcels post and of the _profound_ wisdom carried by some of its alleged friends, I desire to make a quotation or two. When the measure was first up (1908), Representative Lever of South Carolina introduced the four counties “experimental test” amendment in the House. Following is his opening: Every _farmer here present_ knows of his _own experience_ how much time is taken in _extra_ trips to town and city. Now, that is _real_ fetching. Especially before so vast a gathering _of farmers_ as heard it! But a Missouri “farmer” present wanted to be shown. So he fired a question at Mr. Lever. The farmer from Missouri wears the name of Caulfield. He likewise wears an abiding _distrust_ of the parcels post. Following is his question: Is it not a _fact_ that the _great mail order houses_ of the country are the ones who are _really_ in favor of the parcels post? There is real intellectual magneto and lamp equipment for you. Note, too, the _shrewdness_ of this Missouri “farmer” in wording his question--the mail order houses may not be the _only_ ones who favor the parcels post, but they are about the only ones who “_really favor_” it!