People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Government Ownership. [ARTICLE]

Government Ownership.

Some people, all old-party voter 3, treat government ownership of railroads as a novel or untried thing in the world, when the fact is that there are only nineteen out of seventy-three governments that do not own either in part or in whole their railroad system. These include England, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy. All but six of the governments own the telegraphs, and several own the telephone system. All own their postal systems, which in their early stages were in the hands of private carriers.—Farmers’ Tribune.