Daily globe., 1882-09-30
learned by experience that it was useless


to attempt to SUPPRESS new telegraph organ I
izations by absorption and consolidation,
and he accordingly adopted
the more cunning scheme of
owning both the Western and Mutual
Union companies and retaining them as
a separate, and apparently competing or
ganization. This plan was successfully
worked, and about three months ago Mr..
Gould handed over to the Western Unionthe
controlling interest in the Mutual Union.
AS the newspapers must of necessity re-
" upon, one or both of these organizations
for heiretelegraphic- service, it goes !withs
outsaying' that he had scored nine points
IN a game of ten, and needed but one more
point to be master Of the situation n',e =, =,
J This onelpoint is the control Of the AS!
sociated Press. In this department. there
ares Two giant orgaprizat@ions, mis- tie as, from which
al mipos organizations, ,ramify. These
i've n are etheed4 Newe York and
shst shss 5Nsstern AssosaHisfssd Press which
are closely interlinked. The New York
association is composed Of seven papers,
two of which, the Tribune and World, were
purchased by Gould. r A third, the Express,
was bought by Cyrus W. Field, a gentleman
who acts as next friend to Gould, a1eay-
ing only one more paper to be secured to
make the majority in the. New York asso-
citation. The Herald, Sun, Times, land
Journal of Commerce constitute the re-
naming four, and the last named,
it is a thought will soon fall a
victim, either directly or. indirectly,
to Goulds rapacity. In the meantime
Gould gained an advantage by the vote of
the Sun, which, from some unaccountable
reason, recently voted with the
Tribune, World and Eapress, to prac-
tically turn over the collection
of news to the Western Union Telegraph
company. While, until he obtains abso-
Lutte control of the fourth paper, this is a
precarious hold, it nevertheless very
strongly develops the possibilities of the
future. 1t places him in control of the
collection of news and enables him to
shape it to suit his political or stock
jobbing purposes.
If there should be slip in his present
grip, the New York association will find it
difficult to rebel, as Gould controls the
two telegraph lines which must be used
for the transmission of news, and holds
this control as a club to keep the
papers in subsection. While the western
association is so numerous that he cannot
hope to control it numerically, its interests
are so identified with the New York asse-
citation that it is difficult to separate them
There are numerous minor press assooia-
tions, but all, of any consequence obtain
their news from one or the other of these
giant news organizations. It will thus be
seen that Gould's scheme is not chimerical,
and that there is but slight step between
his adding the news dictatorship to his al
ready acquired political control.
That the great newspapers of the country
can be permanently made the Fserfs
of Gould, is not probable, but his near ap-
proach to absolute control, even though it
may prove only temporary, is not pleas
ant picture for contemplation. 1t will un-
doubtedly lead to the establishment of in
dependent news bureaus, such as the GLOBE
and several western papers have already
inaugurated, and which enables this paper,
while ejoying such privileges as the
Associated press offers, to have avenues of
news absolutely within its own control.