Show THE TELEGRAPH AND government A 9 do notto why congress Congre aa con can not dot exercise its control user oer the western union by reducing itu ltd charges to a regular and reasonable schedule so ator say hundred miles or 1 loss so BO much fur for a thousand any distance between five hundred nod and one thousand miles and soon BO OD it seems M though it would be much easier than to try to 0 o regulate railroad traffic le for there would bo be no such bach cl classifications allocations as worry the men who know nothing of railroads and the methods ot raumond whoa when they come to legislate on OD ral railroad I 1 matters ll it would be easy too to ascertain the actual cost coot of fitting up dp offices stretching log vi ires and send feud there would mould bo be no DO 0 question of grades or cunes con es or tho the expense of cuts fills tunnels and bridges in building and operating on general principles Congre zis should be ashamed that a monopoly of the nature of a telegraph company the whole busta of which too caa be investigated and easily canally should build itself up make in Kolta its own and defy the lawmaking law making power of the th republic to place any serious control upon it the toole tole graph really is labant but a bran branch c h of the rost office department and the gov GOT eminent should control it la in the in terest forest of the people the owners owner should have a fair reward full interest on the actual worth of their plant plan tand and nothing more |