“What do you think, fellow citizens, Mr…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

“What do you think, fellow citizens, Mr. Wallace did in congress? He voted $30,000 — yes, $30,000 of the people’s money — for a thing called the electro-magnetic telegraph. What Is that? What! It is a wire strung on poles stuck in the ground, they propose to send news over it. Here is Mr. Wallace. If you don’t believe he did that very thing ask him for yourselves.”