Sounds “loud,” does it? Well, look into the matter. Maybe I am mistaken. If so, it is a mistake made after thirty years of study of the conditions controlling in my country--in _your_ country--and of the prices paid in other countries for _efficient, satisfactory service_. 3. Those “other countries”--the stronger ones, at any rate--either _own_ or _absolutely control_ the railroads which transport their mails. In some of them, rail transportation of mails--also of government officials, the service personnel of the army and the navy, and of other government “weight”--are _carried free of charge_. 4. Those “other countries,” of which so much is said and written ostensibly for our enlightenment, have gone through the mill--their peoples have been _ground fine_ in mills of sophistry and special pleadings, to which, _for fifty years_, we have been carrying our grists. 5. Those “other countries” are making their mail service a source of _governmental revenue_. The people of this country, today, no more expect a revenue from the government’s postal service than they expect it from the War, the Navy, the Interior, the Judicial or other service department. The people want _service_, not revenues, from any federal service department. And you gentlemen who vote away the people’s money for services _not_ rendered--which you _know_ will not be rendered when you vote to “burn” the money--will, before those independent periodicals are through with the recent sand-bagging attempt to censor or control their _published thought_--you will learn, I mean to say, that people want _service_ not revenues; that they want “duty,” as an engineer would name it, not a _coached_ prattle about B. T. U. or other legislative and official thermics. Now, let us look back at that quotation--at some of the points in it I have italicized. First paragraph quoted: Aside from small country dailies--now carried by mail to addresses inside the county of publication free--and fraternal papers, Sunday School sheets and similar publications, there are few periodicals published in this country which weigh two ounces or less. First paragraph following tabulation: “The rate would average 1⅞ cents per pound” for periodicals weighing two pounds. A glance at the table shows that the piece or copy rate on a periodical weighing 28 ounces is given as 3¼ cents. A periodical weighing two pounds, or 32 ounces, would be charged a half cent more, or 3¾ cents for mail carriage and delivery, instead of 2 cents as now. Second paragraph following the table, also in last paragraph quoted: “Normal” periodicals.