Show TUB OVXEKS of the telephone in France practiced the same tactics that the owners of the instrument practice in this country but with a different result The Frenchmen French-men robbed their patrons until the government govern-ment interfered and took the telephone making it a part of the postal system Already Al-ready there has been a reduction of forty per cent of the annual rental and the charge for using the instrument at pay stations sta-tions has been onehalf what it was Of course we dont do such things in America Amer-ica but there are times when the people would overcome their objections to governmental gov-ernmental interference and control of private pri-vate enterprises and justify the seizure like that of Franco of the telephone The telephone robbery here is so outrageous that it is not believed there would be much of a howl if government were to take all the lines and instruments and permit the people to enjoy the invention at reasonable rates |