The age-herald., 1897-11-10
TRIED ID ROB CITY
 NOW THE PEOPLE The Peoples Fight Against a
 Monopoly OWNED IN NEW ORLEANS Are the Bonds By a Wealthy Broker, Who Cares Little For Birmingham. PLANT COST $2o,0oo IN INFANCY And Is Now. Assessed At $28, 900, Not withstanding Vast Improvements. FIGHT FOR DOLLAR GAS WILL WIN Gas Company Reduces Bills Occasionally. While the Majority of Consumers Are Made to
 .Pay the Regular Price-The
 Age-Herald Endorsed
And Is Now Assessed At $28, ,0O0, Not withstanding Vast Improvements.
FIGHT FOR DOLLAR GAS WILL WIN

The Gas Company once tried to saoin- de the city; it IS saOindIing she. people noU.
 The Gas Company started aoith an out lag of S2O,000. Vost Improvements haze been made, and tt gives in its prop erty noac ct $26,000.
 The Gas Company ioas bought in ten years ago for about $14O,O00.
 The Gas Company is afraid of opposi- tion, and Iays plots to auoid tt. It frose out competition len gears ago by having pull.
 The Gus Company's bonds dre o,Oned by rich Ne,U Orleans bunker. Very it- tte stock IS oa0ned in Birmingham.
 The Gas Company caa sell gas for one doltar and make profit.
 The Gas Company pays S5 cents for fts cool and makes TO, 900 cubic feet of gas from it.
 The Gas Company makes from c ton of coal SI.32 aoorth of coke and 20 cents aoorth of tar.
 The Gas Company then charges the consumer $1.65 for Gas.
 The Gus Compamy's charter should be annuIled, or it should be compelled to liue atp to its agreement.
 The Gas Company pays diuidend on $500, 900 watered stock; pays tares on S20,OO0; aoas bought in ten gears ago for about $40, 1000; noaU 0iolates its con- tract eoery dag.
 This is not c good argument against one -dolIar gas--and these are facts!
 The gas company is owned by a wealthy New Orleans broker. Small stockholders are said to be simply tools. IA man in tine employ of the gas ccm- pany has said it was almost a veritable .'gold mine' for it's owner The figures bear him out
 The stockholders in Birmingham may be boweress, but thay cam tell the New Orleans man what should be done. If they are with the people they should join in the battle with the people.
 Isydore-Ns'wman is the man who owns the gas company's bonds. Dc Isydore Newman and the Birmingham stock holders recognize that the contract wit h the city is being broken every day? That they appear in the light of a monopoly when they refuse to give the people what is just?
 If they don't, the people do The trick cry of the monopoly has been brought out by The Age-Herald.
 B F. Rodsn refuses to talk of dollar gas but the people do not.
 Dollar gas is the subject of conversa- Hion in the hotel hobbies, in the places of the stock brokers in the business houses and at the firesides.
 The laiborers in tine foundrles, ma chine shops and furnaces are talking about and indorsing The Age Herald's s fight.
 We could afford to do it if the price Ts Age-Herald in its fight against monopo- lies tha;, try Ito crush the people,"
 Dollar gas is now being discussed in fine school rooms. The bright little fel- lows have heard their parents talk of 1t, and they are solving problems based on the cost of gas.
 The Age-HeraId has assured the paople they would have dollar gas and they will They must have 1t. The people are with The Age-Herald in this fight The gas company has a record. The people were onIoe before chea ted by this monopoly and they have grown tired.
 They were kspt from having an oppo- sition company to put the price down several years ago.
 'tMr Roden says that Atlanta got dol
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