Chapter XII: Railway and Express Raiders

I intended to take up here the railway mail-pay and postal car rental steal and then the infringement by express companies on the postal service and its revenues. However, since I have quoted Section 181 of the federal statutes governing, I think it as well, or better, here to take notice of the express companies’ raiding into the postal revenues--raidings into the field of service which the _law specifically reserved for the operation of the nation’s Postoffice Department_.

Let me ask the reader to turn back a few pages and read again that