Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-14
IT'S FACTS YOU WANT.
sPhLDING's RATES FOR MES
sAGEs ARE EXORBITANT.
Cost OF n business CRbIegram--Legis-
Iators should Know what They
are Doing.

we're expressed by a man Of un-
doubted business ability, upon
the street yesterday.
II have read over the terms OF
the contract carefully" said he,
land L am enthusiastically in fav-
or of it, with the exception of the
exclusive right clauses.
II think the senator's and rep
resentatives are rushing through
the matter altogether too rapidly.
81 do not think that our legis-
lators or the public in general
realize all that is at stake in
granting to one corporation the
exclusive control of so vast an in
terest.
"In the first place the maximum
tariff is too high and it is reason
able to suppose that the maximum
Will De cnaIBeu'
"One dollar per word is an out
rageous figure. The tariff from
all Atlantic coast points to all
telegraph offices in the British
Islands is Is cents per word. To
any place in France, Germany,
Austria, Italy, Spain and Portu-
gal, from 19c to 25c. From
Mississippi Valley stations Be per
word additional; from Pacific
coast points &c per word addi-
tional.
Another thing all words ex-
cepting the date are charged for
in cablegram. For instance,
take the following message:
Honolulu, Aug. IL, 1895.
"To John l.. Jones, 327 Blocker
St., New York. Ship two num-
Der five Pioneer dump carts fast
freight direct. S. K. WHITE.
According to the telegraph
companies method of counting
there are ten words in the tele-
gram. According to the cable
system, there are twenty-three.
Twenty-three dollars. hear
people talk about using oypher
codes. Only the largest houses
can use them. They are obvious
ly of no benefit to the general
public.
"What is the sense in tying up
so important factor of com merce
for twenty years? We should
look ahead. The chances are
that twenty years from now the
vast volume of business between
Asia, Australia and America will
far exceed the expectations of the
most sanguine. Hawaii can, by a
liberal policy, make herself a
prime link in the commercial
chain, but not by throwing away
such an opportunity. Do you
suppose the American Govern
ment will feel plea sed to have her
citizens debarred from cable oper-
alton between her shores and the
Islands? How can we expect any
cable between Hawaii and Asia
or the colonies if this contract is
entered into? For twenty years
it becomes an impossibility, for
no company will lay a cable from
either place to Hawaii, there to
be forced to make arbitrary con-
tracts with Mr.. Spalding's people
in order to get out again. Sub
sidise these people literally, en-
courage them in every way, but
do not let one man or one corpor-
alton gain such control as the ex-
elusive privilege clauses of that
bill contemplate. AS to the mat
ter of income there need be no
fears as to the company's ability
to make money.
1.-THE New York Herald is a
great paper, but is by no means
comparable to many other great
industrial plants, yet it maintains
one cable line solely for its own
kilograms, and finds it pays to do
so.
why do not our Legislators
find out what it costs to build and
maintain cables
"Who is authority for the figures
which have seemingly been &C
cepted as gospel truth I