CHEAP CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 528, 8 June 1909, Page 7

CHEAP CABLEGRAMS.

STATE-OWNED LINES,

ACITATION IN CANADA INCREASES. BOYCOTTING JiARCONIGRAMS.. (UT TILKOUIIMi— I'ItESS ASSOCIATION— COHIIIOHT.) (ileo. June 7, 10.20 p.m.). London, Juno 7. ' Tho Ottawa correspondent of "The Times" says, that tho visit to Canada of tho Australasian delegates to tho' Imperial Press Oonferenco has accentuated interest in tho J Conference. The agitation for a State-owned cablo between Bfitiiih- aiul Caiihtla is increasing, owing to tho land telegraph companies attempting to boycott Marconi's transAtltlntic wireless messages, and to cohfino thoir dealings, to cable companies with whom they have fixed agreements. ' , : CABLE MONOPOLY, , HOW IT'EXTENDS TO LAND LINES. The note of cheaper cables is nlso'etrUck by' the"Daily Mail"—as rem>ilorl uliddr tho heading of "srcss and lSlnpire"— in its comment of Lord Rosebery's speech. "Tho day -when' the tax on knowledge within the Empire is reduced, and cables,;which are tile veins and arteries of the Umpire, /low free and unfettered' , —that is tho.. jjpal which .Mr. llenniker Heaton set so prominently before Britain and tlio Empire Inst year. ••' '. -.. ■ DtiGiridss Letter's at Discount! '. "We may reasonably expect that our children will transact nearly all their business by means uf telegraph and teleplidhes-ata trifling cost, the cumoruiis ilhii twilous post oilico be:ing reserved for the. transmission of valuabledocuments, newspapers, -circulars; alid parcels. Many-traders would oven telegraph oiroulars,.to bo set;up or printed in the colony or State Selected; and orders .Would pour in by telegraph within 31'-lionrs.7. This.'is the future which Mr. Henniker Heaton looks forward to as condensed from a long paper (printed in the Financial Review of Reviews") on tho penny cabls sefvlee.. . \\. ~■■..■ ■■;■.•;

But, he- SaVs, alt .the cables at: present are owned'or controlled by a few great bodies; and eveil those ddiibt always ■ compote.' "Alt English itPdvellcr on the' high seas will be called on f,e iittV, always.to an English cable eolnpany, at first twine, and ultliliateiy (as ho Sets furthei, from home):fi'jjm.eight to ten times.the sum feqUiMd to yield i fair profit ■■oil his , mefr sagna. ,;.., .' A huge profit in .cablegrams Is as indefensible fts flbo On cbiivei'SaUonS With fnefids alid.eustWneisV., .Taitatioli should be oolUdUd on' pfoflts.- not tbols'j nOtbn neaotia' tipns to 'create profitable -for.. Millions, rhel'disaolew dose to: State purchase. And yet net due Word, has been Kpekelrby a'British PpstHlnStßf-Gelieral iti favdtil' bf HdUcin* the .high cable fate).. The Bfltlelr post office" is a "patdeliiiil bfijtttllsation,. 1 dtitlbt if-ena oi'the dictators' filling thel'e has oVel'.travelled to a British..- Colony, ,; . -, ■ ... . ■ . , v . Rinp and ' . ■■■ ,"Of .tho .cable.cofiipatifes of Great■ Britain the fUeHiieils totals-capital .428,000,000, annual .recelßre cOlitfoiled by What are known i* 'eable rings. , ;.For e.jiflirtple, the dlioir- .; mail .ftlitl dlfectofa of the Eastcrit Teteeraph' , Conlbpy donti'dl _th'o Working dot only of that, i. but. nISO 6f the EasUrtt l3s(ehSi6tt and South fAfrißftli..Company, tlio : doiii' pany, ami, Bt lei's: liidr* or less affiliated, The combillatliiiiisiibsblule owner of tohtwiUf flf ..the Wble M. di Uic,Eiai)ir Pi ahd, Indeed, df. the World,, with the'ittceiltibn of the Anglb' .American-lihes;, whiol fare nlsb UJltlei- a St. , :lt iitav bo safely said that the Enstefh ViW iß rai)l ebntfoltogehefal of the ?h v £ 3 --' / t if comiiililtioatiotis (holdlbg ill check- the Imperial aild Colonial Government;! .oil theoUe liahd.-aM the land " of .tliie cable mohbpbly have acted.Solely,-with a Yiow.to their 6Wn Interests* H, - m , ft wife tha ' le Vk&WK Company,- fearing land Merest IH .tile'affairs of:.tho Indo-European is cuoo iniifß M'Benbfiy by water flraitiat & ,are,-.t.h6 saffl6 fts the cable chargls. P TheTani elegraph can boconstructcd ot\ftlo per mile :but. ; the cables to India cost JC2OO per mile No :bltsm*ss man.can contemplate this unblushing ;application,of the 'trust'principle without inilignatiqn." ■ . . . : "