The first mail rail-haul weight is 200 pounds. That weight of mail is carried on some cornfield railroad--“a feeder.” It is all bundled or sacked, if “free in country” or other second-class matter, sacked or pouched if first or third-class, and, also, if valuable fourth-class. Some of the fourth-class, if large in dimension of package, may, of course, be loose. But whatever their class, character, pouching, sacking, casing, or jacketing, that _estimated_ weight (_estimated once every four years_), is received by the railroad and dumped into a corner of a “general utility” car. By that I mean a car used for carrying baggage and express matter, between stations--jars, buckets, boxes, bags, etc., of local “favors” or shipments; such as jam, fruits, eggs, butter, and even “line loafers” who are going to mother, uncle, or friend for a few days feed, or--sometimes--going to the local metropolis for a “good time.” But let us, for the moment, stick to that _quadrenially estimated_ 200 pounds of mail. At the several stations along the cornfield or “feeder” railroad the packages, sacks and pouches of mail are tossed off to the station agent. Coops of chickens, cases of eggs, tubs or jars of butter and crates of fruit or vegetables are taken on. Have you, the reader, ever traveled on a “cornfield line?” Have you ever “got off to stretch your limbs” at some station between start or “change” to destination? Have you, while stretching those limbs of yours, ever noticed or taken note of the miscellaneous and promiscuous sort of goods--merchandise and human adipose tissue--that get into companionship, into carriage or _housed_ connection, with that “estimated” 200 pounds of United States mail? Well, if you have, no argument is necessary to convince you that the “railway mail pay” rate on that cornfield line is from _two to five times_ the rate paid for any other weight (tonnage) carried. Turn back and look at the table of railway mail-pay (weight). Look at the rate per 100 pound per mile haul--5.85 cents, or _eleven and seven-tenths cents_ for carrying 200 pounds _one_ mile. Do you weigh 200 pounds? If not, our President and several other gentlemen in this country do, and you, the President, or the other gentlemen, will be carried--_and for thirty or more years have been carried on any railroad east of the “Rockies”_--_for three_ cents a mile. Now, you, the President, or other gentlemen, pay only _two_ cents a mile for rail _haulage_ on most all of the cornfield or “feeder” lines (and on “trunk” lines as well), east of the Rocky Mountains. You see the joke of it? The postal revenue _raid_ in it?