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Show GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHY. The President recommends the pur-1 chase of all tho telegraph lines of tlic country and their operation by the government of tho United States, in order to lessen the expenso of transmitting trans-mitting intelligence to the people. This rccouimeiKUtiou i.- copied from thcKuglUh practice. The government of Great Britain now owus and manages man-ages all of the telegraph lines of that kingdom, probably with eminent success, suc-cess, though up to a recent dale, we ! are informed, with csa efficiency than j attached to their private management, j l!ut iu England the cour-e of political j favoiiusm and a system of continual I rotation in cilice does not extend to .' clerks, operators and other subordinate : officials as in this couutry, where- every post office clerk, tide-waiter and mechanic me-chanic in government employ must follow the political fortuues of his party. This system is already quite too extended, and should bo curtailed rather than increased. Aside from these objections, the science of modern political economy teaches that governments govern-ments should not meddle with the affairs which eau best be transacted ' through private enterprise, and that nothing is gained to the people at large in so doing. Cheap telegraphing . would be a very popular and legitimate improvement; but the country is mote : likely to receives this reform through the efforts of the inventive genius , which is consunny socking improve- ' mouts iu the n:ethods of transmission, simulated by the demand for active competition with oxisiin;: monopolies and the resu'.ticg precis. Why should nit government, ou the some principle that cheap telegraphy is proposed, give tho people cheap coal, bread and butter, railroad travel and freights, cheap boaid and beds to sleep on? We hvo quite a number of cheap government viiWu'.'s a're.idj. |