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service to the people was doubled and its cost 

 halved. 



The conscience of the people is awakening and 

 there is more than a promise in that. It is blun- 

 dering along, fighting windmills and dummies 

 chiefly, but when wide awake it will fight with 

 intelligence. The Government calls down the 

 Stock Exchange when the trouble is higher up. 

 It has sought to regulate Trusts when it might 

 as well have attempted to regulate Hades. 



A Trust is a monopoly maintained by the pur- 

 chase or crushing of all opposition. The only 

 opposition that can be neither bought nor intimi- 

 dated is that of the people themselves through 

 their Government. The first push of a parcels 

 post finger knocked out the Express Trust. An 

 officer of the United States strangled a poten- 

 tially great monopoly before it was born and 

 there will be others like Colonel Goethals when 

 the people are ready for them. 



Mail, telegraph, and telephone service are the 

 nerves of the nation's business and but for the 

 Government control of the former it is beyond 



