The reader who has followed me thus far and has not discovered that I am writing _against_ the men who are, I believe, trying _to set the brakes on legislation in order to serve some_ “good interest” which pays them a thousand or more for each of the twelve annual connections with the cashier or “deposit certificates”--the reader who, I say, has followed me thus far and failed to discover that fact should quit right here. It will not cure him to read the rest of what I shall say. It is to be worse than what I have previously said; in fact, it is going to be some distance beyond “the limit.” My advice to any “frail” reader, therefore, is to quit right at this point and give his brain a rest until he is able to “come back” _and learn something_. We will now take a look at the humoresque “throw” of our Postmaster General for legislative action. To fully appreciate it, the reader must bear in mind that Mr. Hitchcock’s division of his 1910 report is of date, December 1st, 1910, and signed by himself. The reader should furthermore bear in mind that Mr. Hitchcock had previously reported--and more frequently _asserted_--that the transportation and handling of second-class mail cost the government 9.23 cents per pound. The reader should, in this instance, likewise take into his judgmental grinder the fact that Mr. Hitchcock, in the quotation which follows, is _trying to put up another hurdle for the magazines and other periodicals to jump_; that is, for _such of them as he may not like_, to jump. This recommendation for _legislative authority_ is intended to cut out the sample copy privilege of periodicals, a privilege which the government should _encourage rather than discourage_: In order to discontinue the privilege of mailing sample copies at the cent-a-pound rate, legislation in substantially the following form is suggested: That so much of the act approved March 3, 1885 (23 Stat., 387), as relates to publications of the second class be amended to read as follows: “That hereafter all publications of the second-class, except as provided by Section 25 of the act of March 3, 1879 (20 Stat., 361), when sent to subscribers by the publishers thereof and from the known offices of publication, or when sent from news agents to subscribers thereto or to other news agents for the purpose of sale, shall be entitled to transmission through the mails at one cent a pound or fraction thereof, such postage to be prepaid as now provided by law.” While I have not the act of 1885 at hand, I am aware that it permits what the Postmaster General asks for, _a 1-cent per pound rate_ for periodicals admissible under the acts of 1879 and 1885. Mr. Hitchcock asks for this legislation, a-cent per pound rate, December 1st, 1910.