Show lIALI WAY HALF VA Y GOV GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP O I II I It Is interesting to note that the American Federation Fed Fed- of Labor in session at Norfolk Va has hias nothing but hOt approval of last years year's Minneapolis program pro pro- 1 gram giving gI tho the telephone and telegraph companies com corn panics into government ownership and nothing but opposition for the same treatment applied the rail rall- oada i-oada and mines And i it Is difficult to under understand land wh why this tIllS policy of way half-way government ownership ownership owner owner- ship Is favored So far as the mines aro concerned the tho scheme does not seem practical l. l Thieve There Is so much of or development de de- de to so o much of experiment and speculation specula specula- I tion hon In in tho the industrial sense of ot the word word that that a n. federal c control of ot it seems Impractical But what I t r logic can favor the nationalizing of or the telephone I and ancI telegraph companies and ancI oppose a like Jlko treatment treatment treat treat- treat treat-I ment mont of ot the railroads As a matter of oC practice It is not at all likely that either of these interests will be tal taken en over o by bythe bythe the time general government When tho ho policies Ad Advanced rid rid- by President Roosevelt havo have done their perfect work of ot making even rich men obey tho thu laws law there thore wUI will be bo little need for tor tho the big corporatIons corporations corporations corpora corpora- to be further subjected to national control It Is because they havo have been exceeding their rights In Iii tho past and because the officers of ot tho ho law havo have not been diligent enough in calling them to account that offenses have come But neither tele tele- l i rj tt t. t J I 1 1 4 f I phone telegraph nor railroad company would be bo better beller lu lii federal ownership The Time very cry spirit of or our nation demands free freedom om It requires Individual hUI effort the enterprise of ot men not men not the less personal forces oC of om If there were good oo reason for tor ono one of oC them there thero would bo ho good reason for all If thore there IB Is no good reason for giving control over ove railroad companies there is no uso use subjecting telegraph tele graph companies to that control |