Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-28
CHICAGO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2s. l893-rwELvE PAGES
Are Strangely silent.


Alley l. securities was going on) for /
collecting ) cents extra fare after |
midnight on the Cottage Grove line !
are strangely silent at the we'll |
known collection of - and 80 cents |
extra fare for gas before midnight, |
after midnight morning, noon and |
night, and every hour in the day 1t
is observed that the gas trust keeps
its enormous deposits of money wrung
from the long-suffering people at the
bank Of the owner Of those unscrupu-
lous and shameless sheets. 1t would
seem that this attack on the City
Railway was, after all, only Il 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 OH 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 champion has at last appeared
who offers to deliver Chicago from
the dragons who are preying on the
vitals and sapping the blood OF
the city. A method has at last been
discovered by citizen OF Chicago
and put into operation at the Cicero
gas works, where all can see il, 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 Il
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.
win 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 $4,000, 900 more
bonds on the Peoples Gas company
and taxing the west division of the
city $500, 900 more per year TO pay in
creased dividends on works alread!
outrageously overstocked and bond
ed? Every gas consumer and labor
ing man, every banker merchant ant
business man is in favor of opening
every avenue for employment to tbt
thousands who already need tn
work and the wages that this great en-
terprise can supply The times ar
hard and promise to be harder
Want, poverty, great anxiety anC
suffering are staring many a worth.
and industrious citizen In the face
, If the employment for the unemploy
ed thus opened up In trying time Il
denied by the city authorities, if tn,
press is muzzled and operated In thu
interest OF public thieves and com
J mon outlaws In consideration Of ;
3 division of the plunder gathered from
, the public by the various robbie
trusts, then the times are rapid.
ripening for an outbreak Of p0pula
cyclone Of Just indignation anD
E righteous wrath, as compared will
which the French revolution was
pleasure party, q merry.makltG, anD
"A genial summcr-day picnic
The present owner. OF the gas trus
E are stock gambling New Workers wh
= have n0 interest lea Chicago except q
r loot 10 menlIessly and load 10 dow
with more fraudulent bonds.
larger gas plant can be- built iur Dee
G thJn sl1.0uu, goo The public IS uo,
taxed lu pas interest ou atout siU
uHn 1u1 tho tHIk af which Is puf
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