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Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska summed up the situation when he said: "If by putting a third ticket in the field you would defeat free coinage; defeat a withdrawal of the issue power of national banks; defeat Government ownership of railroads, telephones and telegraphs; defeat an income tax and foist gold monometallism and high taxation upon the people for a generation to come, which would you do?... When I shall go back to the splendid commonwealth that has so signally honored me beyond my merits, I want to be able to say to the people that all the great doctrines we have advocated for years, have been made possible by your action.
You can picture to yourselves the joy these decisions gave him and the eagerness with which he and Watson took up their labors together. "They made telephones of every imaginable size in their attempts to find out whether there was anything that would work more satisfactorily than the type they now had.
The People's party nominated James B. Weaver and James G. Field. The platform called for The free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. A graduated income tax. Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones. The restriction of immigration. A national currency to be loaned to the people at two per cent interest per annum, secured by land or produce.
Buck yanked away another spoke in his vehemence. "Don't you lie to me," he bawled. "There wasn't telegraphs and telephones and railroads handy in them days, so that I could stop you or catch you, but I didn't need any telegraphs to tell me she had gone away with handsome Mounseer Hercules, of the curly hair." He snorted the sobriquet with bitter spite.
As many as twelve hundred wires are often bunched into one sheath, and each cable lies loosely in a little duct of its own. It is reached by manholes where it runs under the streets and in little switching-boxes placed at intervals it is frayed out into separate pairs of wires that blossom at length into telephones.
"I keep on getting promised a week but I can't bring it off." "He's such a nut with the telephones," the man by his side explained, helping himself to marmalade. "The General positively can't spare him." "Oh, chuck it!" the other exclaimed in disgust. "What about you? the only man with an eye to a Heaven-ordained gun position, as old Wattles declared one day.
Hubbard had set a price of twenty dollars a year, for the use of two telephones on a private line; and when exchanges were started, the rate was seldom more than three dollars a month. There were deadheads in abundance, mostly officials and politicians. In St. Louis, one of the few cities that charged a sufficient price, nine-tenths of the merchants refused to become subscribers.
There were no telephones to spread the news, but long before the day arrived, everybody, far and near, knew that Jotham Hobbs was going to raise his new house without rum. The people came, some eager to help to establish the era of temperance, and some secretly hoping that the project would fail.
But if there is a chance that the customer may be out of town, or if it is during a busy season, he telephones ahead to make sure.
His burly form occupied most of the back seat, and Sophy with difficulty squeezed herself in beside him. As they glided slowly away, through the dense throng, she looked about her her curiosity as raw and eager as that of Shafto. "What a wonderful, busy place!" she exclaimed. "I see you have telephones and trams in all directions." "Oh, trams!" Krauss echoed contemptuously.
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