And Swinton, Schwab and Thompson,
the orators of the communists, have
nothing to contribute but talk, and
that won't buy bread and butter for
hungry men and women. The prob
ability now is that there will be no
general strike here, this fall.
Did I urge last week that the gov
ernment should take hold of the tele
graph 1 If I did not, I want to do it
now. While the Atlantic and Pacific
and the Western Union were com
peting, we had decent rates, and a
man could afford to use the tele
graph. You could send ten words
from New York to Chicago, or any
intermediate point, for twenty-five
cents, and everybody used the tele
graph instead of the mai Is. But now
that Jay Gould, the worst man in
America, has consolidated the two
companies, and they have gone up
der one management, the rates' will
go back to the old figure, one dollar,
t and the people will be swindled just
that amount. It is an ontrage that
l a communication just as important as
t the mail should be made the property
of one man, who can raise or lower
the tariff to suit his convenience.
