, in which he says: "The
news of this country is controlled by two great press
associations, and in any place in which either has a footing,
no new journal can be established and secure telegraphic news
except on such terms as may be prescribed by the paper or
papers that already occupy the field. In England, on the
contrary, all papers are on an equal footing." The
Typographical Union is fully alive to the benefits of a
government telegraph; in fact, labor and commerce in general
very strongly favor the reform. Mr. Bell says: "In this
movement of ours we are supported by all the organized bodies
of workingmen in this country. We are a unit on this question"
(p. 17).

13. _Discrimination will receive a serious blow._ No more telegraph
rebates of 20 or 40 or 50 per cent to favored individuals and
corporations. No more telegraph blanks for legislators, politicians, and
lobbyists. No more delaying B's despatch until the rival message of C is
sent. No more precedence for bucket-shops and gamblers over honest
business and government despatches.

14. _Gambling in government stocks will cease_, speculators in wheat,
corn, pork, copper, oil, and other products of industry will be unable
to control the wires for their uses, or even secure a precedence over
the lines, and the Louisiana Lottery and similar frauds will no longer
find a refuge in the telegraph as they do at present. The post office
has been taken away from the gamblers; it is time the telegraph were
taken from them also. The telegraph in the hands of cunning men may be
the means of abstracting millions of money from the producers of the
country, and may even become a potent factor in the causation of panic
and depression. On page 3 of his Argument for a postal telegraph, Mr.
Wanamaker says:

The measureless body of producers, in order not to be manipulated
and robbed by the speculators, need to be nearer the consumers; and
the measureless body of consumers, in order not to be manipulated
and robbed by the same speculators, need to be nearer to the
producers.

Take the telegraph away from the speculators and give it to the
producers and consumers, that they may come into the closest possible
relations.

15. _Political corruption_ will lose an able contributor when the
telegraph ceases to belong to a private corporatio