The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-05-24
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PACIFIC CABLE QUESTION is THE4
CAUSE OF ALL THE
TROUBLE.
The Postal and the Western Union.
Win Be the leading Spirits in
the Coming War;

bic seems to have resolved itself
into a contest between the two big tel
egraph companies, according to the de-
bates so far upon the subject, although
the signal corps of the army and most
of the naval officers are in favor of a
government constructed and owned ca
BILE. The Western Union company nat
urally is supporting a government ca
bic because the owners of the Postal
Telegraph and Commercial Gable are
the promoters and, in fact, the men be
hind the Commercial Pacific Cable com
pany, which seeks to lay line from
San Francisco to Manila. When the
Pacific cable proposition was first con
sidered, the various companies desiring
to lay the cable asked large subsidies
from the government, and the senti-
ment seemed to be that if the govern
ment was to pay anything for cable
1t would be better to construct it itself.
Now the Commercial people only want
an uninterrupted right to lay a cable OF
its own without subsidy This would
be a great advantage to the Mackay
cable and land telegraph lines, there
fore the Western Union interests are
opposing the proposition.
His Pride in the West.
Senator Clark of Montana is no ora
tor and does not pretend to be, but he
occasionally grows eloquent when he
gets warmed up over the west heard
him one night among a number of
western men tell how, as a boy, he be-
came interested in all the tales Of tn"
west. He read everything he could
find about the west, both in history,
travel, adventure and story. He told
his mother that he intended to 80 out
into that great west and make his for
tune. When in 1856 his father moved
to Iowa, he felt his first great thrill of
pleasure. For n time he remained In
that then new country, but, longing for
the mountains and plains, he set out
six years later across what was still
supposed to be the Great American
desert" going first 10 Colorado and
then to Montana. He fought Indians
and went through numerous other ad.
ventures, but steadily he amassed the
fortune he said he would seek years
before in his Pennsylvania home. The
great west is his pride and one of his
enjoyments. While the new railroad
he is building from Salt Lake City to
the Pacific is a business venture, his
greatest pride in it is that it will de
velop a new region Of agricultural and
mineral richness and add to the wealth
and resources Of the Rocky mountain
country. Upon this theme of the west,
It's rapid development and its people,
its boundless prospects for the future,
this rather silent man became eloquent,
and at the close of his speech received
round after round Of applause from
those men of the west who had shared
with him the early pioneer days.
ls This ignorance?
"While you are talking about civil
service reform so much" said a mem
Der who opposed it TO a group who ad.
vocated it, Il want to say that there
isn't one Of you here who can name the
governors of all the states. You can
perhaps name all the states, but so
important an affair as the governors Of
each state has slipped your memory"
1t transpired that no one could name
the governors of all or even a quarter
of the states. I'm fact" said one, 'I
don't think l ever saw the names Of
half the governors of the states Gov
ernOrs are not in my line. / have
enough to do to keep track of the i'm
portant politicians in my district"
That's Just It," said the first speaker.
"You take any man with good educa-
ton and 'gumption enough to be elect
ed member of congress, and he could
not answer half of the civil service
questions.
House Personal Mention.
Representative Kahn Of California
finds it easy to quote poetry, and when
he is called upon for a speech at some
informal gathering he usually springs
some poem to illustrate his subject or
remarks. He was on the stage ten
years, playing with tragedy kings and
queens, and retains all the fire Of dec
lamation he used in the days when he
was behind the footlights.
Odd Fellows Meeting