Show THE TELEPHONE MUDDLE an eastern paper tays that it is the united states that now seeks to show by a dint in courts that alexander graham bell was hot the original inventor of the telephone and that for this and reasons the bell patents the telephone businda bu sinea ta carried on should be canceled and the american bell telephone company have been opi posed heretofore in all suit relating to aliis subject by corporations or rival inventors who bad entered the field in competition it is an opposing company in aaa to application the goberni fagent now proceeds but it is Government the that sues in bei be i half of itself and of all the people and inhabitant of the united states and territories because the evidence offered by tho applicant ia the department of justice m a sufficient basis for euch a suit this fact will probably make tho trial more interesting and important than any in which the bell company haa been a party it ia to bo hoped that litigation over cheso violl telephone patents toay be settled a gaint the alleged original if auch a can be reached with justice tho bell company ia too much of a monopoly to be protect ed n the ciao of exclusive that do not belong to it beyond question |