Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-30
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Newark. December 27.-A letter Is
-,r,blished this morning from President
;,-ton- of the Western Union Telegraph
comna,v to the Postmaster-General.
In raviewino the recomme ndatlons con-
.sipe,l il, the latter's annual report, In
favor of the Postal Telegraph. he claims
that private management Is much better
.haa public. He charges that many OF
sha statements in the Postmaster-Gen-
erals report concerning the telegraph
MONOPOLY are unjust and untonnded;
also that portion regarding the arbitrary
rates and unnecessarily high charges,
and the lack of facilities. lie puts 4
much larger valuation on telegraph pop
crty i'll the United States than the Post
master gave. He says that losses are
sustained by the Government operating
lines in GeIDlau., France. SPAIN, Aus
.rIa. Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Meth
.rI,ntls and Sweden; that IL Great
Britain there is only IN apparclit lio,i'
annually of S2.6oJ, 600; and that iict;iaiiy
the revenues from the telegraph every
,-aar fail considerably short cf EXPENSES.
Then, he asserts that the automatic syS-
tn. IS really slower than the Mosse
system, is more expensive. ana taNsS
Eve times tie nU.noer of operators 10
work it.
1t il the strangest thing Imaginable
tha; Congress is not lii Il state of eHthU-
si5sm over the general proposition to
establisi system Of Government Iele-
.,raphs-either by the purchase OF the
Western Union Coinpany's lines or
otherwise. The anxiety displayed ty
orion and his c:sSGclatlS - retain pos
session OF the great monopoly Of which
be is the head, indicates something else
shan a > llit. OF DISTINGUISHED soiIcltude
Ser the public good HIS arguments,
BASED upon the history OF telegraph or
-.,tiuus on the continent of Europe aEe
entitled to but little constitution here.
This is IL Ietter-wTitiug, 1Ie wspai'er-re;.d-
ny. MESA sending people. Al that
need be done II make the telegraph
business ten fold as great - II LOW Is. Is
20 place j. rs well within reach OF tie
masses as the mail service Of the co1ln-
Try. And - to is proving 4 r'.ylns
,perltiy1. =. gI-cc, 10 matter I II does
10. paw. no matter if it runs behind :.
title ut FIRST; it viii sustain itself in the
nj quit. IS certainly IS the postal scr
, ice The great public reason Why C9-1-
..-sss should make this telegraph on9s-
,.s1 the most prominent niaii-r "t Ii
.ie,.Iirs IS the popular need Of it ana ii.'-
:cpul-.- .:cs.-e for It. There axe tEocs-
..,s.ls a...ite,.s - thousands q w,i--:o-,:o
-. ep.-. IL the Ger States W!lo never
think Of sending any tvt Ii.o most 1-s;ri4:
messages ly tl.s-rarh- Thy derry
themselves the rtiyilsse rs Thy es2E
themselves ether expensive l'.AaIies
cat down Ike rates so that they viii cor
respond with these maintained by The
postal department and these prudent
people will come to be among the regular
customers Of the telegraph, The pn-
yate, individual reason Why Congress
should favor 4 scheme which promises
10 populari.e the telegraph, Is that by SO
doing i. would strike the hardest possible
blow at its persistent defamer, the As
ISOLATED Press. The monopoly Of the
news currents, the power TO poison the
rubiic mintt-these are the weapons
vherewi,h Il ma,evo!ent, ambitious,
cruel Press 50 rtfectually slnltes the
reputation OF public men and siani.s
rubgic measures. All this can be ne1i-
.g..Iizcti by tie absorption Of the teie-
.-rapl. system into the government 1t
Will be amazing, indeed, if Congress, at
its present session does not take definite
stops III the direction. suggosse sstd. Ali lie
r,,s;, arguments are on the side Of the
Postal Telegraph h. rs also are all the
reasons Why the present congress
sT,oulI make the establishing OF the
same its most urgent and speedily re--
tectei measure.
IS Isp1caTISei the way tho have OF
treat;uc Jurors in capital cases i'll Lander
county We quote the following from 'he
E.erciFe Of the 2Gth inst: