The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-12-03
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
Stand the Business and Professions
Men of Columbia.

Stand the Business and Professional
Men of Columbia.
Good things will sometimes bear
repetition, and good arguments or
reasons will sometimes have weight
a second time, upon being repeated.
We are requested, therefore, to re-
produce some interviews published
in the HERALD last May, and to re-
produce also the Roll of Honor
published few weeks ago, of those
who have pledged themselves, one
to the other, TO stand by the Citi-
Zens Company until the last gun has
fired. The article published last
May reads as follows
The reporter spent an afternoon
among the business men of the town,
going from house to house, and from
office TO office, and he found the
sentiments and feelings of all, with
out exception, in the condition
which might properly be termed red
hot, and all expressed a resolution
to uphold and support the Citizens
Company in the fight which it is
making for reasonable telephone
rates.
Yes said Mr.. John Dobbins, of
the firm of Dobbins q Ewing, hard
ware merchants, 1--WE are using the
Citizens telephone with entire salts
faction, and we propose to continue
to do so. We are for the Citizens
in this fight and will give them all
the aid and comfort we can"
"There is no doubt about the JUS
tice of the Citizens cause, y said Mr..
A. B. Rains, druggist. "They are
making fight against a monopoly
which has eXtorted from the public
for years, and with the sympathy
and encouragement of the people
throughout the town and county, we
will have the best and cheapest sys
tenn of county telephones that could
be devised"
RATES don't cut any figure with
us, when it comes to fight between
foreign corporation and home
enterprise" said Mr.. Geo. McKen-
non, of the firm of McKennon, An
derson IL Foster, dry goods mer-
chants; "our business does not really
require any telephone at all, but we
have put in Citizens telephone,
just to give the Citizens Company
our encouragement and support.
We are glad to see the citizens max
ing the fight for reasonable tele-
phone rates, and we shall give them
all the aid we can"
Mr.. Geo. S. Alcorn is an earnest
advocate of the Citizens Company /;
land" said he, as the reporter left,
"you can put me down as a Citizens
man unto the bitter end"
Mr.. A. S. James, of the firm of
James Brothers, jewelers., spoke
very warmly in favor Of the Citi-
zens movement.
Mr.. j. l.. Hutton, cashier of the
Phoenix Bank said, "Our Citizens
Company is making good fight,
and we are gaining many friends
every day, as the people begin to
realize the real nature of the situa-
ton. Everybody is beginning to
understand that the Citizens Com
pany is a mutual association of the
citizens to establish a telephone sys-
tenn for their mutual benefit and at
reasonable cost, and that they
were driven to this by the eXtortion-
ate rates of the Bell monopoly, and
by its indifference to public wants
Everybody likewise understands
that the drop which the Bell Com.
-. pany has recently made in its rates
from three and four dollars month
! to fifty cents and twenty-five cents
a month, is for no other purpose
than to drive the new company
out of the field, and that when this
7 is ACCOMPLISHED the Bell rates will
go up to high water mark and tn,
people will be made to suffer fol
, their independence. But from pres
! ent indications the Bell monopoly
= will never have another chance a
! ! us, for the Citizens Company il
: here to stay"
: Chaffin Brothers, wholesale anC
= retail grocerymen, were watching
: the fight of the people against tn,
y monopoly with great interest, ant
. believed that the only hope for rea
i sonable rates was for the people t,
stick together.
Mr.. ]. A. Titcomb, the druggist, i
n warm friend of the Citizens Com
Il pany, "and,n said he, "if the citi
: zens do not stand by one another il
their fight, and the people fall agail
v into the power of the Bell monopoly
Il they will suffer the consequences Q
e more outrageous extortion than eve
before
Yes" said Mr.. E. w. Gamble
e President of the K. w. Gambl
Grocery Co., II have ordered on
e the Bell phone and have put in tn