Chapter XVIII: Section 181: of the federal statutes. Let me ask him also to think a

moment about the character of small parcels and packages the express companies carry. To help our memories a little, let us note a few items.

The express companies carry and deliver for the general public money remittance for any sum. For carrying sealed remittance of a hundred dollars or less--for the carriage and delivery of which the government has provided in its postal money order regulations--the express companies are _criminals_ under that Section 181.

Had the express company “influence” not reached federal legislators, it is not only highly probable, but almost a certainty, that our postal service would today be both prepared and permitted to transmit and deliver sums of money to any amount and at rates _lower_ than now charged by the express companies.

If a publisher has ten or a hundred thousand copies of a book to deliver to mail-order purchasers, some express company steps in and makes him an offer for delivery, a _trifle lower_ than the 8-cent-a-pound rate charged by the Postoffice Department for the same service.

In such instance, the express company making such tender of delivery on any “post route” is a _criminal_, under the _specific_ wording of that