Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-28
THE MONOPOLY DLFENDED.

THE MONOPOLY DEFENDED.
Our old friends of the Baltimore Week
ly Despatch take us to task for our COM
ments on the Adams & Co.'s Express
monopoly, and contend that the DAILY
Erening Star is as much of monopoly
as the Express Company, because ours is
the only penny paper published in Wash
lngton; arguing in this wise:
We look into the Dictionary for the mean
ing of the word, and find that it means "the
sole privilege q selling" Adams Co. are
therefore no more Monopolists for being the
only Express establishment in Washington,
than is the Star for being the only penny pa
Per. which latter is getting already 80 great
as the be able to crush out all individual en-
terprise that may raise its impotent front in
opposition to its monopoly. Messrs. Adams 4
Co sell their labor and services, Messrs. Wal
ZACH Il Hope sell their labor and services
consequently both companies are monopolists;
when there are numbers of the same sorts Of
businesses going on in this Land whose free
born citizens scott at the royalty of Europe"
Adams Co. may charge too high for their
services, may secure all the railroads and other
vehicles they may be able to buy, but until
they have the sole privilege of doing 50, they
are not the naughty thing imputed to them.
Most sapient logicians. At last we
have made plain to our dull understand
ing what monopoly is! The vexed
question will no longer be mooted, for
the editors of the Despatch E" have looked
into the Dictionary for the meaning of
the word, and find that it means the sole
Pririlege Of selling" Seriously-we think
that the least that is said about Adams
Express monopoly, the better it will be
for that concern and as no better apollo
gy can be made than that offered by the
Dispatch, whenever their advocates are
about to put pen to paper in their de-
fence, Adams & Go. s prayer should be 80
save US from our friends"
Adams & Co., are not only monopo-
lists, btS monopolists of the worst kind
monopolists even in the Baltimore editor
soceptation of the term. We learn that
this company have the sole privilege"
OF running car, in which to convey ex-
press packages, over the Baltimore, Will
mington and Philadelphia Railroad, for
which they pay $4,000 a year
We learn, further, that they have the
same sole privilege" over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, for which they pay
annually an enormous sum. Will the
editors Of the Dispatch say that this is
not a monopoly? What similarity is
there between an Express Company
whose wealth is so great as to enable it
to buy up the " sole privilege" of attach
ing cars to express trains, thereby ex-
Guiding all competition, that they may
get their oacn price for what they carry,
and penny paper that has no g sole
privilege" and asks only fair field and
no fa'ors. A man with half an eye can
see there is none. The Yankee who
commenced the Express business with
only . carpet-bag as his wagon, and
Shank's mare as his horse" who has now
grown so rich that he has forgotten his
humble-origin, and is allowed privileges
that none enjoyed when he carried his
carpet-bag, and rode on Shank's mare,
excluding those who are nop what be
once ,ras, should he be reminded of the
improperly of the thing, and it will be
no fault of ours If he is not.