Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-23
The Telegraph and Associated Press
Monopolies.

longing to tho Associated Press
monopoly, has supported the recon-
mendation of the Presidents Mes
sage, of a national postal telegraph.
II any reason for this, beside selfin-
terest, were required, it could lie
found in the terms of their contract
with the Western Union Telegraph
Company. AS many readers ON this
side the Rocky Mountains may not
have seen this evidence of completely
with the telegraph monopoly, we re-
publish a notification of its terms
which was sent a few wears ago to
certain members of the Associated
Press i'm Ohio:
PRIVATE CIRCULAR, mot INTENDED
FOR PUBLICATIONS.
CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL, OFFICE,
April Is, 1867.
To the Members of the Western ASSOCIATE
ed Press:
Your attention is invited to the
clause in u contract with the tele-
graph company which forbids us to
encourage or support any opposition
or competing telegraph company.
That clause was to the telegraph com
pany a valuable consideration f the
favorable terms upon which was
based the contract with us.
,Signpd) NJ. HAr.STED,
OF the Executive Committee of the
Associated Press.
The circular, it is said, came acci-
dent lily into the hands of the Ohio
papers; hence the exposure. The
Union, Alta, Bulletin and Cal, undoubt-
edly received the same notification.
reminding them of their contract.
they having the monopoly of Associ-
a.ed Press news on this coast.
This close corporation OF the AssG-
GATED Press, in combination with the
telegraph company. have always de-
feated all efforts at forming other press
associations, whereby the telegraph
news might be furnished to the pro-
prietors of other papers i'll the inte-
rior. thus promoting a healthy com
petition in the distribution OF intelli-
gene. No new journal is admitted to
i share in the present associated mo-
nopoly, and no new association can
get the news from the telegraph com
ptny. The St. Louis Globe was re.
fused admission to the Eastern Asso-
ciated Press, and is compelled to
maintain its own correspondents in
New York and other important
points. who supply it with special
dispatches at great eXpense-more
than double what is incurred by its
local contemporaries who belong to
the association. The GloJe is succeed
ing, and is breaking down it's rivals
solely through the great wealth, en-
terprise, and popularity OF its propri-
etors. who are able to bear the enor.
nous expense, and expect to succeed
in conjunction with other wealthy
publishers, in finally destroying
the monopoly in the western cities.
On the Pacific coast, there is no news
paper establishment, not i'm combina-
ten with the monopoly, that is rich
enough to initiate the Globe, and pay
for full dispatches at the rates charged
to papers outside the association. For
these, and for the people at large.
there is no remedy except in the ma
tional postal telegraph proposed by
the Postmaster General. A contem-
| porary truly says: "The Government
owes it to the people to save them
from this monopoly. We pay for L
message to New York four dollars
the same message goes from Boston
to New York for thirty cents. A let
ter from San Francisco to New York
costs three cents postage; from Bos-
ton or Brooklyn three cents. Give us
postal telegraphy and ourcommercial
and social messages will be equally
reduced, and uniform rates estab-
lished all over the United States. \
p sal telegraph will give accommodate
tons to the honest press; vii! put all
journals upona equality and success
will be rroportioned to energy, talent
and enterprise, and not be governed
by the accident of being the slave OF
a rich master"