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