Government Control

Grand Master Can-, of the Wisconsin Patrons of Husbandry, in kis annual address says the express and telegraph companies should be brought under goverament control. The people have been bied by theni altogether too long. That extortionate monopoly, the Western Union Telegraph company, reports receipts for 1889 of over $20,000,000, expenses $14,500,000, leaving a profit of $6,200,000, with an average toll of thirty cents a message and an average cost to the com-j pany of tweuty-two cents a message. The public, therefore, is paying to the company a profit of nearly 30 per cent. for a service which the national government might render with a postal telegraph at an enonnous rednotion in cost.