THE TELEPHONE RUN AMUCK.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Tho fiat has gone forth to a number of the subscribers to the telephone that their machines arc to lie cut off at The end of September. This presumably because they have the honor to belong to the profession of bookmakers. Why should they be thus maltreated, and lawyers, sharebrokers, and hotelkeepers allowed to retain their machines? The bookmaker finds his machine just as useful as do the members of tho before-mentioned professions; thou why depri>c him of it? Where axe the fanatics going to stop? I .should not be surprised if at some future time they put toll gates on the aproaches to the. City, and, 1 ct no one pass who is not convertodu Lot me give tho goody-goodies a tip; “ Get the publican’s machine cut. off.” He does more damage with his than any bookmaker, and, besides, there is a probability of a, prohibited person procuring liquor through it. If ever it should be my lot to travel this earth for a second time*, and I have any choice in the matter of destination, I will carefully avoid this part of the globe.—-I, am, etc., . S.P. August L
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Evening Star, Issue 12881, 2 August 1906, Page 8
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199THE TELEPHONE RUN AMUCK. Evening Star, Issue 12881, 2 August 1906, Page 8
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