It expected every instrument to pay its way.

In many States, both the telephone men and the public overlooked the most vital fact in the case, which is that the members of a telephone system are above all else INTERDEPENDENT.
One telephone by itself has no value.

It is as useless as a reed cut out of an organ or a finger that is severed from a hand.

It is not even ornamental or adaptable to any other pur-pose.

It is not at all like a piano or a talking-machine, which has a separate existence.