Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-13
NO. Is.

eHeli WISHES, virtually retains power in
the Presidents hands, precisely as it
always existed. .f : -s.
This is no isolated case. Dozens OF
such instances could be given, and to
day, If corruption is brought home to
any department of the government, no
one will be more earnest in roofing ii
out than the head of the nation. for he
appreciates fully that his e-election de-
pends' on this course. Such a man is
no contemplate fee, above all when he
IS LII possession of unprecedented pow.
er. Still there is a possibility OF de-
featlng him; there is some opposition
IN his own party to him : the feeling in
favor OF one-term rule is extending I:
his defenders are not as wise as him
sell, as their course on the Senate inyes-
tigatlng committee proved, and thereis is
a growing hope among: democrats that
he will yet slip. These are dangerous
times the angel of destruction is
abroad, and the power which overthrew
Tammany hall in three months may vet
be directed against the administration.
Could corruption be brought home to
the government, it is gone, although
Grant has declared that if the charges
against the New York custom house are
proved, he will himself interfere and
turn out all connected with it. But
that will not save linn, as it will create
as many animosities as it cures; and
the cry of venality being once started,
1T will ring through the nation till it
brings destruction on those toward
whom it is directed 5 b 1''" 81
Telegraph Brokerage. 90 oi
A curious business has sprung up in
London TO reduce the price of tele.
graphing to distant points. The
charge to India, for instance, is ninety
shillings for twenty words, and the ad
dress is included "A firm in Londo1
agreed to take and forward messages a.
ten shillings a word, more or less. The
address will generally use from six te
ten words, and frequently messages
need consist Of only two or three words
if a cipher has been agreed upon. The
6 message-packers, " as they are called,
have their own cipher, and send all mes.
sages to their own, agents in Cal
cutta. In twenty word message
they may thus send, IN some cases, as
many as ten separate messages, receiv-
ing from their customers ten pounds,
and making a profit of five pounds ten
shillipgs. Their, customers, on the
other hand, have paid altogether but
ten pounds for what under ordinary
circumstances Soula have cost them
forty-one pounds. The telegraph COM
,pany pockets all the loss. At the re-
cent telegraph conference in Rome this
was discussed among other topics, lat
no way was found to suppress the prac-
tice. Another trick is to write the
message backward and run the letters
togeth8f. Tie following is an ex-
ample; ..alt 6a. sa Haiiisog
4 niartwolsydbnesdnalao alaoetsebnotnstyub.
This means, Buy ten ton best coal
and send by slow train,"' which is ten
words, but as. there are only thirty-five
letters, and five letters are allowed to a
word; it counts for Only seven. This
plail is very veil when only short word
are used, but It you'd not often occur
that great gain could be ffsde in this
way. The sentence we have Just @tit--
ten contains tweHty-seven words, Of
which there is one containing one let
Iltsr there are four containing two each,
-four, with Tires each, eleven with
four each, and seven With five each /;
total precisely one hundred. II writ
ten backwards it would save exactly
S.seven words. But the sentence pre-
eeding tiiiis Contains fifty-one letters,
and would count for elefsn words at
five letters each, instead Of the ten it
actually contains. For this grievance,
too, the telegraphers found no remedy.
Whether the pfofit of the companies
might not be as large if tbs necessity
for such ingenuity Were taken away b,
To- reduction of rates, is q question well
worth considering. w