Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-11-04

lous and shameless sheets 1t would
seem that this attack on the City
Railway was, after all, only a covert
demand for blocks of stock, cash or
bank deposits, and mere notice TO
the officers of the City Railway to
call and settle.
The villainous gas trust is domi-
mated by several other gigantic out
law trusts-namely the Reading
anthracite coal trust, Pennsylvania
coke trust. and Standard Oil trust,
from which it is compelled to pur-
chase its supplies for making gas.
Under the tyrannical exactions of all
these robber trusts Chicago to-day is
bleeding, writhing, and suffering.
But a champion has at last appeared
who offers to deliver Chicago from
the dragons who are preying on the
vitals and sapping the life blood of
the city. A method has at last been
discovered by a citizen of Chicago
and put into operation at the Cicero
gas works, where all can see it, for
economically and scientifically utiliz-
ing the cheap native bituminous Goals
of Indiana and Illinois and the crude
oils of Ohio, in one operation and
apparatus, for the manufacture of a
superb quality of illuminating gas,
thereby greatly cheapening the cost
and making the cure of the smoke
nuisance Of Chicago only question
of putting in these new works on a
scale commensurate with the present
and future of the city. The owners,
builders, and operators of this mag
niticent invention are all well known
and reputable citizens, and have Of
fered the city liberal share in the
enterprise in return for the privilege
of using the streets and alleys for
laying the necessary mains. They
would not, if they could combine
with the gas trust, for the gas trust
works are mostly too Anticipated and
rotten, their mains too small and
leaky, and the Illegal concern is too
unpopular and too heavily overload
ed with fictitious stocks and bonds
to make a combination at all desir-
able.
Council Can Act.
viii the council pass the City and
County Gas company franchise and
thus accept this splendid opportuni-
ty to escape from the clutches of the
greedy gas octopus, even now on the
point of issuing 10000, 900 more
bonds on the Peoples Gas company
and taxing the west division of the
city $600,000 more per year to pay in
creased dividends on works already
Outrageously OverstOcked and bond
ed? Every gas consumer and labor
ing man, every banker, merchant and
business man is in favor of opening
every avenue for employment to the
thousands who already need the
work and the wages that this great en-
terprise can supply The times are
hard and promise to be harder.
Want, poverty, great anxiety and
suffering are staring many a worthy
and industrious citizen in the face.
If the employment for the unemplov :
ed thus opened up in a trying time is
denied by the city authorities, if the
press is muzzled and operated in the
interest of public thieves and COM
mon outlaws in consideration of a
division Of the plumber gathered from
the public by the various robber
trusts, then the times are rapidly
ripening for an outbreak of a popular
cyclone of just indignation and
righteous wrath, as compared with
which the French revolution was a
pleasure party, merry-making and
a genial summer-day picnic
The present owners OF the gas trust
are stock gambling New Workers who
have no interest in Chicago except to
loot it merciessly and load it down
with more fraudulent bonds. A
larger gas plant can be built for less
than So, 600, 600. The public is now
taxed TO pay interest on about $50
600, 600 the bulk of which is pure
and unadulterated "water." The
people Of Chicago must wake up for
who would be free themselves must
strike the blow