Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That the United States should take immediate steps toward complete ownership and management of the telegraph...
...owner and manager should be the State. Forum, Feb. 1888, (Cullom). (a) Experience in other countries. N. P. Hill's speeches, p. 216. (b) Telegraph naturally a part of postal system. (c) Present evils of private ownership would be remedied. N. A. Review, vol. 143: 35 (Phillips). (d) Positive improvements: (1) In extension of service. (2) In greater efficiency. (3) In economy of management...
...Government ownership and management is at present feasible and practicable. N. A. Review, vol. 142: 227 (Field). (a) Government could resort to paralleling. (b) It has right of eminent domain. (c) Essick machine...
...Government ownership of telegraph lines is bad, since (1) Presumption is against centralization of private interests in the hands of the government. (2) All the people would be taxed for the benefit of the comparatively small number that would use the telegraph. (a) Probable inefficiency of government management. (b) Clamor for extension of lines to an unprofitable extent. (3) It creates a vast number of federal offices, resulting in an extension of the "Spoils System." (4) It exposes political secrets to the use of the party in power...
...government should not take immediate steps toward assuming ownership of the telegraph, for (1) Civil Service Reform must precede any such action. (2) Western Union Co. is giving cheap and efficient service. (3) Other alternatives must first be examined. (a) Establishment of government postal telegraph offices, and the letting out of contract for carrying messages to telegraph companies. (b) Government control of telegraph by interstate commission...