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2468. Do not you think that companies
might start almost with the avowed intention of
claiming to be bought off? — 1 do not believe
that they would ever get beyond the prospectus. I
may say that we have no monopoly of the money
order business. There is noiv a prospectus for a
money-order company, but it ivill never be any
ihing more than a prospectus. lt has got a se
cretary, a broker, and, af course, a solicitor, and
there it ends.
2469. Will you tell me your objections to
its being a legal monopoly? r — 1 siated them in
my first day’s evidence.
2470. You thought that the public would
have more confidence if it were not a mono
poly? — Yes, I think that the public would al
ivays be able to say to themselves: „The Post Of
fice has got no monopoly, but if it does not do its
work well, il is in our poiver, at all events, to get
up somethingf And, again, if we had a legal
monopoly, we shoidd shut every door but one, that
is, our oicn door, to all inventors, and every in
ventar then, even the gentleman ivho proposes to
carry messages without any wires. at all, would be
perpetually coming to us, and saying: „ You must
try our system, beeause you are the only people who
can try it.il
2477. The Chairman. With regard to a
monopoly, the fact of there being no legal mo
nopoly will tend to keep the Post Office up to
its work, will it not? — 1 think it ivill.
2478. Supposing that there was a manifest
improvement in the mode of transmitting tele
graph messages, and the Post Office would not
adopt such an improvement as would greatly
decrease the cost of sending messages, it would
then be open to any private person or company
to start such a thing if the Post Office was dog
ged, and refused? — Yes.
2479. And so far, there being no legal
monopoly is the advantage to the public? —
Yes. Let me put it in this way: If we were now
to raise our charge for money orders, 1 think that
2468. Tror De ikke, at Kompagnier kunde
sættes igang næsten med den erklærede Hensigt
at forlange at blive udkjøbte? — Jeg tror ikke,
at de nogensinde vilde komme videre end til sit
Prospektus. Jcg kan bemeerke, at vi ikke have
noget Monopol paa Pengeanvisningsforretninjen.
Der er nu et Prospektus for et Pengeanvi- nings-.
selskab, men det vil aldrig blive til noget Mere
end et Prospektus. Det har en Sekretær, en Mæg
ler og naturligvis en Sagfører, og dermed ender det.
2469. Yil De sige mig Deres ludveudinger
mod, at Telegrafen bliver et legalt Monopol? —
Jeg udtalte dem i mit Vidnesbyrd den første Dag.
2470. De troede, at Publikum vilde have
mere Tillid, naar der ikke var noget Monopol?
— Ja, jeg tror, at Publikum bestandigt vilde kunne
sige til sig seiv. „Postvæsenet har intet Monopol,
men dersom det ikke gjør sine Sager godt, staar
det i ethvert Fald i vor Magt at faa noget Andet
istandJ Og paa den anden Side, dersom vi havde
et legalt Monopol, skulde vi lukke enhver Dør,
undtagen en, nemlig vor egen, for alle Opfindere;
og enhver Opfinder, endog den Herre, somforeslaar
at sende Depecher aldeles uden Traade, vilde da
bestandigt komme til os og sige-. „De maa forsøge
vori System, fordi De er de eneste Folk, som kan
forsøge det.u
2477. Komitéformanden. Med Hensyn
til Monopol, saa vil det Faktum, at der ikke er
noget legalt Monopol, virke til at holde Postvæ
senet til at gjøre sit Arbeide forsvarligt, vil det
ikke? — Jeg tror, det vil.
2478. Forudsat at der var en aabenbar
Forbedring i Tclegraferingsmaaden, og Postvæ
seuet ikke vilde adoptere en saadan Forbedring
som Koget, der høiligt vilde formindske Omkost
ningerne ved at sende Telegraramer, vilde det da
staa aabent for hvilkensomhelst privat Person
eller Kompagni at sætte en saadan Ting i
Gang, dersom Postvæsenet var stædigt, og ikke
vilde? — Ja.
2479. Og forsaavidt er det en Fordel for
Publikum, at der ikke er noget legalt Monopol?
— Ja. Lad mig udtrykke det paa denne Maade:
Hvis vi nu forhøiede vor Taxt for Pengeanvisnin-
68 [X.
MØDET PAA BØRSEN 14 SEPT. 1868.
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