It speaks all languages and serves all trades.

It helps to prevent sectionalism and race feuds.

It gives a common meeting place to capitalists and wage-workers.

It is so essentially the instrument of all the people, in fact, that we might almost point to it as a national emblem, as the trade-mark of democracy and the American spirit.
In a country like ours, where there are eighty nationalities in the public schools, the telephone has a peculiar value as a part of the national digestive apparatus.

It prevents the growth of dialects and helps on the process of assimilation.