launching, and had refused. But after 1881 it passed into the control of the locomotives. There was a happy-go-lucky jumble of trains and wagons, Until 1881 the Bell System was in the hands of a family group. It was fear of monopoly will decrease, just as it did in the case of the a cart with flanged wheels could drive it on the rails and compete with until as late as 1857. By that time the people saw that com-petition on one company, and the era of expansion began. with it by hauling freight to and from the depots. This, to his the small stock-holders, and has remained there without a break. It is a railway track was absurd. They allowed each track to be monopolized by teamster did to a higher social value, by clasping wires with the main impossible. He was not the fittest to survive. For the general good, he evolution, the United States is rapidly outgrowing the small independent an anti-monopoly plan. The tracks were free to all. Any one who owned telephone companies. These will eventually, one by one, rise as the system of telephony. was held back from competing with the railroad, and taught to cooperate first railways of the United States were run for ten years or more on independent teamster. He was much more arbitrary and expensive than No one, certainly, at the present time, regrets the passing of the squeezed out of a bad job into a good one. And by a similar process of As this Federal supervision becomes more and more efficient, the present surprise, he found much more profitable and pleasant. He had been any railroad has ever dared to be; and as the country grew, he became all held back by the slowest team; and this continued on some railways railways. It is a fact, although now generally forgotten, that the a strictly private enterprise. The public had been asked to help in its