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Show THE AMERICAN TELE-PHONE TELE-PHONE The writer was In a big summer resort hotel the other day, where all the guests and many neighbors used tho telephone, free to all. It coat the hotel 26 cent a month. It waa on o "farmers" line, .connected with tbe Dell system. "America bad the good fortune to escape government ownership of telephone tel-ephone lines," says an English writ' cr. He declares that tbe existence In England of government monopoly has reduced the value of the telephone tele-phone to the British public at least 80 per cent. English peoplo realize the immense advantage the American telephone received when it was born free. Few people realize that millions of farmers and country people are getting service, and full connections witli tho American Dell Telephone system for $3 n year. Is there any government ownership country tbat can boast of "service on any such terms |