paper, individual, or firm. Messages addressed to parties on the other side, routed via Marconi wireless or Glace Bay, cannot be accepted. We will, however, of course accept messages addressed to the Marconi Company, or any one else at Glace Bay, but no other direction or indication can appear in the address. Such messages should be checked at full commercial rates, and the tolls to Glace Bay only collected. We cannot under any circumstances accept the Marconi tolls or anything beyond Glace Bay on these messages, but must treat them solely and wholly as local messages between the point of origin and Glace Bay.”
It is very easy to read between the lines and note that the telegraph companies are realizing their danger from competition; and with the government innocently acting in their interest, the public would be deprived of all the benefits of legitimate competition.
As for the development of wireless telegraphy, we have only to compare the present conditions in Great Britain and this country. When the Marconi Company was first formed it obtained a license or contract from the English government; as a result it is the only company to-day in England, and the English battle-ships have only such apparatus as the Marconi Company can give them. On the other hand, in the United States there are now seven or eight companies in vigorous competition, which has resulted in improvement of apparatus and increase of efficiency to such an extent that our