Postal Telegraph

The postmaster-general fu vors a liniited plan of postal telegraphy. One objection made to it was that its constltutionality would be in doubt, and to show the falsity of this he points out that the United States was the owncr, and the postofflce dcpartnient the manager of the first line of wire constructed for commercial and public uses. That was constitutionali then why should this plan be riglit. The postal service is for the quick and sure commuDication of the people. We have about reached a limit of speed in the mails but the growing deuiands of the business interests of the country detnand Bomething more. At present te'egraphing is too expensive and uncertaln, despite the fact that the Western Union makes Eeven millions of dollars a year on its six tiines watered stock. Last year it made a million more than ever before. It 3 high time that this monopoly should be brought to time in the interests of mercantlle and industrial progress. The scheme does not contémplate the government's buying or erecting wires and poles, but of gi ving a franchise to a corapany whlch stands ready too do the business at low fixed rates of ten or fifteen cents for a message of twenty wordsWe shogld havo a pystem like that of England of a cheap postal telegraph in connection with the post-oiBces.