Note 29 — REASONS WHY GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO COMPETITION WITH THE PEOPLE IN THE OPERATION OF THE TELEGRAPH.
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The Postmaster-General is permitted to establish postal-telegraph stations at any city or village through which the lines of the contracting party may be extended, though said city or village contain less than five thousand inhabitants; but as the proposed company makes no provision for the payment of the operators or any of the expenses of such offices, while it secures to itself the receipts for telegrams, it is hardly to be expected that the Postmaster-General would feel disposed to open many stations under such circumstances.