Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-04-10
FROM CHICAGO.
The Great Chicago Dailies vs.. New York Dailles-
Government Telegraph-A '.General' for
President-PersonaI Mention.

Wucu meet It's IdullHdT Idce anu reau
through its interesting columns. 1t is
like talking back to a friend,as it were.
instead of listening in silence. which is
next to contempt. Therefore, without
wishing to incur the displeasure of the
court, allow me to remark on several
heads as to what is going on in this
neighborhood.
Chicago newspapers have gained
great point lately by securing fast mail
facilities, enabling people living over an
hundred miles away to get the great
dailies of this city in time to read them
at breakfast, if they do not get break
fast too early. Milwaukee people, for
instance, and the Milwaukee papers
don't like it either; but private concerns
must be sacrificed for the general well
fare. 1t is indeed great privilege to
country readers to get these newspapers
so complete in their compendium of
news from all parts of the world, in
such q short space of time after their
publication. They are distributed by
the thousands along the lines of the
fast mail trains, north and west To be
sure the eastern dailies have like
privilege, but the relative disadvantage
in this fact to the Chicago dailies is not
SO great, as the advantages gained by
the latter. The New York papers, for
instance, can never compete with
Chicago papers in their own territory
or even on neutral territory, for the
Tribune, The Times and the Inter-Ocean
are more readable, more newsy, of
larger contents, than the Tribune, the
Sun or the Herald of New York There
is, in fact, very limited circulation of
New York dailies in this city and sur
rounding territory. AS news they are
stale when they reach here, and in gen.
eral reading matter are inferior to the
journals of the Garden City. That the
Chicago dailies will in time lead the
world,as they now do the United States,
is future certainty. Not only will
they expand with the expansion of the
city, but new facilities for gathering
news will be secured. The great prob
lem of a government telegraph will
some day in the near future be an estab-
lished certainty, and cheaper telegraphic
rates will follow This will be another
item inducing newspapers to publish
more news; and in ten years or less
from now Chicago will have a million
of population and will naturally want
newspapers of larger calibre.
Speaking of the government tele-
graph, believe it will be an assured
fact within few years,sa two or three.
It's coming yet for a'that And the
time will come when five cent messages
will be as common almost as two cent
| letters. There is no reason why the
telegraph should be the rich mans
postoffice; as if God put tariff on cleo
| tricity to the exclusion of its use by
mankind in general! am free-trader
on electricity only. The people demand
this change and that is why think Con-
gress will be forced to adopt the meas
ure. During the strike of the opera
tors of the Western Union, new light
was forced upon the operations and
business of the Western Union COM
pany, which, but for that strike, would
probably never have been effected. 1t
was shown what enormous dividends
this company paid upon even its watered
stock, and the query naturally arose
what necessity for the people paying
every year millions of dollars to sup
port corporation, the business of
which properly and legitimately be-
longed to the control and management
of the peopleP The discrimination of
news acknowledgement among the people
is a function of government. and Con-
gress is empowered by the constitution
to provide rules and regulations for the
enforcement of the same This reform
in the civil service must perforce come
with the requirements of the times and
of the people; and no combination of
capital or capitalists can long delay it.
1t will be a grand stride in the coun-
try's progress. Already party lines are
being drawn on the subject, and as
usual the Republican party must shout
der the work of establishing this reform.
Democrats halt, and utter their cry of
Capitalization" as an excuse for doing
nothing. 1t must be Republican sue
cess, and it will be Republican sue
cess. The telegraph of the future will
not be controlled by Jay Gould or Van
derbilt, but by the same power that
now controls the postal system of our
country-a self-supporting system, dis
seminating intelligence at two cents an
ounce, and asking no profits.
l see THE HERALD discusses the
Presidential subject, in common with
other well bred journals, and also note
with pleasure that it does not forget
General Fairchild in this connection.
Governor Rusk was through here the
other day and said in an interview that
be believed Wisconsin would be solid
for Fairchild at the coming National
convention. The state of Wisconsin
can't do anything better. The coming
struggle at the Convention will, opine,
be about the same as last time, with
Grant left out, am sorry to say.
Blaine, Sherman, Edmunds and Arthur
will bobup serenely-with Logan among
them-and the result will probably be
as at the last Conventions dark horse.
| would not be afraid to bet that some
General" will get it-"General' Sher-
man, Logan or Fairchild. l put Fair
child last because he may be first. Next
TO Fairchild am believer in that old
war-horse, Gen'l Sherman, the man who
conserves the love of all the loyal people
of the Union, and who could lead the
Republican party to victory as he led
his soldiers from Atlanta to the Sea. -
Personal: | was pleased to see Mr..
Williams, or Railroad Williams, as be
is well remembered in Grant, and P.