Show WESTERN UNION Mr Russell Sage of the Western Union is inclined to make light of the suggestion that the election of Bonanza Mackey as director of she new Postal Telegraph Company t will make that company a dangerous I danger-ous rival Mr Sage points to the fact that heretofore all rivals have gone to the Western Union and asked to be taken in out of the wet w I and intimates his belief that the If postal will be no exception to the rule It is aj haughty impudent t tone that the gentleman employs speaking of the matter as if the WesternUnion were complete master mas-ter of the situation and impregnable impregna-ble in its position He may bet be-t correct indeed the past encourages him in assuming the airs he puts I y oa The fact that he can talk in I ii this manner as if his company I + f were supreme is the very best reason it t rea-son why an assault should be r i t made upon it by other combined I ° capital and by the public that 1 it dally and hourly robs We I t dont know how much money Mr Mackey and associates will put I with the Postal Telegraph company I but if they will put in enough toI I break the gigantic monopoly that has its grip upon the pockets of everybody in the land from the enterprising little newsboy to the richest man in the Union the public pub-lic will be disposed to excuse some of the sharp practices by which the bonanza king obtained his enormous wealth In the light of the past we CPU almost agree with Mr Sige in the belief that no company can be a formidable rival to the Western Union There is c way hwwever for breaking the monopoly and this I plan may have to be appled Government Gov-ernment can control the telegraphic business as it does the postal service ser-vice and as it carries the mails at or near cast it can transmit telegraph tele-graph messages on iea ouaole terms We hope Mr Sage and his Western Union will be as impudent and defiant defi-ant as they know how to be for in this way they may force their own destruction and bring relkf to the people |