Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-03-23
TYRANNY OF THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS---DEMAND FOR A POSTAL
TELEGRAPH.

TELEGRAPH.
We have received copy of a pamphlet
Of II pages, in which the character OF
the manager OF the Associated Press is
exhibited by his own recorded testimony
before Congressional Committee, in
1857. There can be no just complaint
against such publication on account of
its anonymous issue; for the showing is
entirely in the nature and form of con-
fession, from beginning to end. BY |
this authentic record We are reminded |
that the person who is row almost the
Sole Geographic historian of the coun-
try" acknowledged himself a hired lob
byist5 before Congressional Commit
tee; admitted that he had violated the
condition OF his appointment to seat
on the floor of the House by acting as a
lobbyist; slandered grievously several
congressman (whose votes INDICATED
them against his aspersions;) confessed
his crime, when pushed to the wall by
the relentless cross examination of Hen
~ Winter Davis; undoubtedly, aud cor
rectly, deeming himself fortunate in be-
ing, for all this, subjected to no more
severe punishment than that which con-
sists in ignominious expulsion from a
reporters place in the Lower House of
the National Legislature. And this is
the individual who selects much and
snperintands the transmission of all the
"gy neral news" that is shed abroad
throughout the country, day by day,
under the heading of The Associated
Press.
Is it any wonder that market quota
tons from such u source have no relia.
be character; that it has become notori-
GUS among the more intelligent people
OF our cities and towns that the farmer
is, through this means, deludcd into
making sales unjust to him and unfairly
remuneratiye to foreign and domestic
grain rings? Need we wonder when
fires that consume great petroleum re-
tineries are uureported, until the monop-
lists can scour the market, and buy up
at existing figures the stock of oil on
hand in the larger cities, distant from
the scene of conhasration and measure
bly, dependent on the factories destroyed
for their kerosene supplies? Can We be
longer amazed, when men of enterprise
in Cincinnati, Chicago, and other West
ern cities, who endeavor to open and
conduct an honest stock intelligence
office, are hampered with every species
OF business-impairing delay, and annoy
ance, in the transmission of dispatches,
and finally broken up financially by the
grossest violations of contracts made for
telegraphing by such audacious brokers?
1t is indeed high time that all the citi-
zens of these United States were thor
oughly aroused to sense of the import
ance OF the Postal Telegraph movement.
In innumerable ways are tue people i'm
posed upon by the present management
of the principal telegraphic lines of the
country. The character of any promi-
nent man who presumes to take an ac-
tive part in pushing the bills for Postal
Telegraph Bureau may be at the mercy of
the arch lobbyist and libeller who ICON.
trolls the wires" OF course, the Mana.
ger has to observe discretion in his use
OF his place, but with the slightest pre-.
text or opportunity for abuse or misrep.
resentatlon "enemies are punished
by national and almost world wide
calumny.
But here we are paying, on the aver
age, even with the reductions recent,
made, three to four times as much AZ
we ought for our dispatches private an,
press-when obtained by the monopoly
line. Under the terms of the Posta
Telegraph bill, recommended by tn
President and the Postmaster Geners
(and which We hope to see passed at tn
next session of Congress,) dispatch {
ten words, hence to San Francisco
would cost but so cents, at most; or a
cording to the dir line mode of mea
uremsnt between points over 800 mile
distant--by such estimate such di
patch would cost but 25 cents.
Let our Senator'S and Representativ
understand that the people of Nsvad
demand the Postal Telegraph.