Show world telephone to level all barriers and bring common brotherhood of man by JOHN 1 CARTY chief american and telegraph company there can be no doubt whatever that some day we shall I 1 establish te telephone ephone it communication etli with every part of the known world this is the work wt wb are engaged on now biow what will be the effect of all this where people do not freely communicate with each other they do not understand each 0 ther oilier there is misunderstanding there is suspicion there is iq jealousy there is war but when people can freely communicate with each other they are drawn together and a condition is created where all interests are arc common to all the people the world telephone wi will la 11 make a common language a necessity that does not mean eliat all lail languages gu ages except one will disappear but there will bo be one language which all the world will understand and use ue u e for communication irwill it will be the language that we americans americana talk and with the common understanding of language will come a free exchange of thought and of ideas and a common brotherhood of man inan Iron frontiers tiers will ivill gradually disappear and we shall evolve into one great family of mankind that I 1 believe is the tha true truc mission sion of the tel telephone what we ought all to be specially proud of is the fact that these thes achievements atre are the product of american Arne institutions and reflect tho th genius of our people the story of the telephone the story ofas of its development is the story of our own country a story exclusively of american enterprise and of american progress all the most powerful governments of europe have tried their best to develop and aad operate telephone systems and with what results great contributions contribution a to the art ari have not been made by any ane of them i americans have given r new voice to mankind have created and perfected er an electrical system of communication for the advancement oi of civilization americans have extended without limit the carrying power of the human voice eliminating barriers to speech binding together OUT our own people and now now reaching out with the great aim of some day bringing all the people of all the nations of the earth into a common brotherhood |