Show s Watch Congress Watching the engrossing Mexican l situation should not excuse any intelligent citizen from his obvious duty of watching congress s. s For instance there is the Shields water power bill billand and the Madden Madden Madden Mad Mad- den amendment to the parcel post act which no true believer in democracy should forget for a minute When congress passed the parcel post act it included in it a body of rates and an administrative clause which provided for the changing ng of those rates This is the clause which the Madden amendment is trying to kill But if that administrative clause had not been in the law what wha r rates tes would we wo now be bc paying A ten-pound ten parcel parce sent from New York to Baltimore under r rold old rates would have cost 6 cent cents cents' for t the e f first pound and 4 C cents f for c each ch additional pound or 42 cents which is IS exactly four times wh what t the service cost i With the approval of the interstate commerce commerce commission the i postmaster S g general after experience reduced those rat rates s and now d I ten-pound ten package can be sent from New York to Baltimore or for 14 cents And the parcel post pays more real profit than the express comp companies com com- p nies make on their rate of 32 cents N The parcel post is the peoples people's express As such it the is duty of all to protect it from frolI such limitations as the Madden amendment would hamper it with it is the duty of every citizen to watch con con- gress We Ve can justify our great solicitude by a quotation from Mark Twain In Wilsons Wilson's 8 New Calendar Twain said It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except congress |