Well, there are over 40,000,000 residents of the country--villages and towns in this country--among them, too, are twenty millions of _real_ farmers. These are pretty firmly of opinion that _they_ “are really in favor of the parcels post.” There are, also, not _less_ than 30,000,000 _more_ residents of incorporated cities, small and large, who at least _think_ they favor a parcels post service which will permit “mother” to send a pair of pants to her boy ten miles away as _cheaply_ as the laird of Skibo Castle, Scotland, can send two pairs of kilts to a son of his friend’s Aunt Billy who lives in Los Angeles, California. Of course, the people may only _think_ they think and are sitting up nights with the windows open and their ears spread to hear _their_ representatives tell ’em they are wrong. If so, Mr. Caulfield and Mr. Lever will probably hear from them. It takes the people some time to recognize or properly to appreciate how wise some of their representatives are--what a _vast_ amount of charges-prepaid wisdom they have. But the people finally catch on and then--well, then there will not be so many “farmers” of the Mr. Lever variety in Congress. But I want to give Mr. Lever another show. He’s entitled to it “under the rules.” He should have several of them--not to show his profound knowledge of the value and _dangers_ of an efficient, _cheap_ parcels post, but to show that a man need not spend a cent in Congress to advertise the fact that he is a “practical politician.” All he needs do is make a few _hired_ or _ignorant_ remarks on some subject _about which the people of the country have been thinking_. Here is Mr. Lever’s answer to Mr. Caulfield’s question, as previously quoted: The wisdom of _discriminating in favor of the local merchant_ must be apparent to _any one_ who regards, for a moment, the _danger_ involved in a system (parcels post) which would _inevitably centralize_ the _commerce of the country_. Now, candidly, how _could_ a “friend” of a parcels post service show his friendship more _nicely_ than that? Especially if he is a “farmer?” Or even if he is not, and merely _desires_ the farmers to _think_ he is their friend? Why, Mr. Lever has Mr. Caulfield shoved clear over the ropes in that answer. Mr. Caulfield, of Missouri, may have full magneto and lamp equipment, but Mr. Lever, when it comes to a _friendly_, high-speed spurt for a parcels post service, shows _all_ the latest improvements. No, sirs, Mr. Lever is not merely a last year’s model. He’s _bang_ up-to-date--axles, drawn steel; forged crank shaft with eight cams integral; continuous bearings and bearings all ground; two water-cooled, four-cylinder motors with _sliding_ gear; “built-in” steel frame, and running on a “wheel-base” of 106 inches. Mr. Lever shows all the other “latest,” _necessarily_ belonging to the “best seller” class among late models.