The daily times., 1922-01-10
May BRING ABOUT
ABOL|SHMENT Of
CABLE MONOPOLY
AMERICA STARTS 1T
The Abolishment of Monopo-
lies Means a Step Forward
in Rapid Communication as
Well as in the Development
of Better Political and Com
mercial Relations.
(By David Lawrence.)
LCoyright, 1922. by The Daily


Copyright, 1922, by The Daily
Times.)
Washington, Jan. 9.-The United
States government has succeeded in
it's first effort to abolish monopolies
in cable communication throughout
the world. An agreement has virtual
ly been reached with the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the ALL
Gable Company and the
Peruvian and Ecuadorian
governments which will mean re-
change in cable COM
between North and South
America bringing with it unquestion
ably later on lower rates as well as
improved service and establishing
ultimately freedom from cable mon
opolies in the western hemisphere.
The basis of the new agreement,
which brings to an end the spectacu-
lar fight between the Washington
government and the Western Union
over the landing of a cable in Miami,
Florida, is this:
First, The All-America Cable Com
pany shall surrender the monopoly it
enjoys to the landing of cables in
Peru and Ecuador while the Western
Union which is affiliated with the
British owned Western Telegraph
Company shall surrender it's mono
poles on the Brazilian coast and the
eastern shores of South America, and
thereafter neither company shall
have monopolies on either coast.
Second, the Western Union will be
permitted to land it's cable at Miami,
Florida, connecting the island of Bar
bados, where the Brazilian cable had
reached, with the United States.
n Third, settlement is conditioned
upon the consent of the Brazilian gov
ernment- and the British company,
the Western Telegraph company, to
the revocation of the original mono
lpoly on the Brazilian coast.
I The willingness of the Western
Union and the All-America companies
to surrender their respective mono
|polistic privileges is an evidence OF
their farsightedness as we'll as theil
recognition of the fact that sooner
or later when the present mOnOpOlies
did expire, the influence of the United
Estates government, whethr the ad
lcratic, was sufficient to prevent thu
renewal of such monOpOlies and tina
by an agreement at this time com
1petitive conditions could be brough
the revenues of the cable cOmpanie
but help to build communication an,
commerce between North and Soutl
. America Trade in the western hemis
phere has been hampered by poo
communication, inded before the All
America Company came into the field
most of the cable traffic from the Uni
4 ted States to South America was b
way of Europe>necessitat della
ON the one hand, and breeding a Gel
itain suspicion on the other that Eu
|ropean business men were able t
, outbid Americans through prio
knowledge of American offers. Thes
,charges have been denied again an
< lagain but it has been admitted tha
1.-THE opportunities for such tactic
I,would be minimized if the Unite
States has speedy communicate
4 with South America.
The fight for untrammelled con
munications in the western hemi
phere began under the Wilson Al
ministration. Secretary Colby adopte
s. practically the same policy as d
n- Secretary Hughes-there was> I
lg Ipolitics in it, simply deliberate e
b. fort on the part of the American go
1 ernment to see to it that cable col
rs munication with the all-importa
as continent to the south of us wasI
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