Punch,  54 (1868), 176.

Taking it in Snuff

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Government, Politics, Commerce


    Discusses the opposition of Robert Grimston to the plan to put the telegraph system into government hands. Notes his dubious argument that the telegraph companies, 'for doing the work badly, get enough out of the public to pay a good dividend'.



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