Other easily comprehended differences between the present method of loading all governmental mail service upon the Postoffice Department without pay or credit for the vast service rendered and a method which would give that department such credit could readily be mentioned. However, the four points of difference between the two methods above cited, and the advantages which would accrue both to the service and the people by adopting an approved, honest business method instead of the present unfair, foolish and _dishonest_ one, are sufficient, I think, to convince the reader that there _are_ differences between these right and wrong ways of handling the nation’s postal service--its governmental mail matter--that are of vital importance--differences which on the one hand invite raidings, waste and _lootage_ of the postoffice revenues and on the other would make for economies in the service and for business care and _honesty_ in the use and expenditures of those revenues. EXPRESS COMPANIES CONDUCTING A CRIMINAL TRAFFIC. But, says another apologist for the loose, wasteful methods of the Postoffice Department in handling both its service and its revenues, “The postal service was originally instituted for handling the government mail only.” That be as it may, though I doubt the sweeping assertion of the statement made, just as I doubt the integrity and truthfulness of purpose of the person making it. It came to my notice as part of an argument (?) in defense of the outrageous railway mail pay and mail-car rental charges which mail carrying railroads have _been permitted_ to collect from the postal revenues _paid by the people_. But whether or not the postal service was originally intended to be merely a dispatch service for transmission of government orders, documents, etc., can stand as no valid reason now for the Federal Government’s permitting its several departments to use and abuse the vast system for intercommunication among the people which it has permitted to be built up, and for the building of which it has taxed (by way of postal charges) those who made use of the system--taxed them _excessively_, if indeed not somewhat unscrupulously--whether or not, not, I say, the government originally intended the mail service to be an exclusive service for use of the government only has no present bearing. If such was the original intention, the foolishness of it must soon have become apparent, for we find that federal laws were enacted to establish a general postal service _for all the people_. Not only were laws enacted for the establishment and regulation of a mail service, but by the law of 1845 it was clearly intended to make such service a _government_ monopoly. Section 181 of the federal statutes reads as follows: