Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — RIGHT TO THE POINT. [ARTICLE]

RIGHT TO THE POINT.

Learning that a telephone company was furnishing racetrack news" for the use of a gambling - poolroom operated near Jeffersonville, Governor Marshall sent to the manager of the company the following statement:

“It is the judgment of this office that while you have authority to transmit information over your lines, you have no authority to use them either directly or indirectly, to your knowledge, for Illegal purposes. You are not chartered to become a conduit for a gambling Institution. I must receive Immediately information that you have cut the wires and stopped the communications or I will Instruct the proper officials to test your right to do business in the state of Indiana.”

It would be hard to find anything more explicit than that, and it is not likely that any telephone company, after reading it and thus becoming informed as to the governor’s views, will take chances on the annulment of its right to do business in this state.