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Show WHY OBJECT? In some parts of the country there seems to be an inordinate desire with a certain class of public officials to prevent the extension exten-sion of the telepost system of automatic telegraphy, which in pursuance pur-suance of its plans of national expansion intends to run its lines from its present southern terminus at Omaha to Salt Lake City and other cities and towns in Utah, including Ogden, Provo City and Eureka. It is difficult to conceive on what grounds a public servant who has an honest regard for the welfare of his constituents can lend himself him-self to a plan designed to exclude this well approved system from any state, city or township it aspires to enter. If those who are shaping shap-ing its destiny recognize a public demand for its service and are willing will-ing to supply it, why interpose an objection to its extension? All the company asks of the public is a right of way, which means the right to do business, for the public benefit, a right which every legitimate American enterprise is entitled to. The Telepost wants no subsidy and is not a petitioner for financial assistance from any state or municipal mu-nicipal body. Its plans contemplate no abridgement or encroachment upon any right enjoyed by any community from Maine to California. |