b. Competition illegal. Vide act of 1866.- Congressional Record for 1866.
c. Government lines would be expensive and ill managed.
II. Government monopoly of the Telegraph System undesirable.
a. Expense of the system.- Nation, Vol 15, p. 402, vol 16, p. 90.
b. Establishment of useless offices.
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c. Government slower than the companies to meet the needs of the community.
d. Difficulty of management and open to danger of fraudulent manipulation.
III. a. Tendency to centralize power against all the traditions of the Republic.
b. Civil Service will be further impaired and demoralized.
IV. Danger to the country in having all political telegrams pass through government hands.