Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-14
City Electrician Ellicott Reports on Long
List Of Streets Which Need
Lights,
But the Gas Trust Will Not Lay the Mains.
Because It IL the
Boss

during the pist ten years when the
Legislature was not in session. Their
only visible means Of support has been
the money obtained from corporations
by the sale Of their votes.
When the corporations want law
they buy It. When they want YER
diet they buy that, too. Where are We
drifting to?
How many Of the men who buy
American juries and American Legis-
latures with English capital are con-
nected with the Gas Trust?
With the corporations buying the
courts and denying the people justices;
with the corporations buying the Leg.
islature and depriving the people Of
their rights, Of what uss. Is a Republic?'
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Did the Gas Trust ever do anything
In the jury linef It did pretty WE'LL
with the Legislature.
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How Illuminating II IL to think OF Gas
Trust people writing to England to tell
Of what they can do with American
Legislatures with a little English.
money.
Whenever a member Of the LegIsla-
ture tells you that "there IN nothing In
this gas and warehouse bribery talk"
you can bet that that fellow has been'
bribed by the interests named.
Oh, how sore the bribe-tnkers who
have been reelected feel! They fear
the coming investigation and the de-
parting coin.
The sorest men in Springfield are the
men who took the coin and fear eX-
posure.
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The SangamOn County Grand Jury
ought to summon the attorney for the
! Armour interests, referred to In the
Board of Trade report.
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When the SangamOn County Grand
Jury investigates Legislative bribery
II must not forget the Gas Trust agent
who manipulated the deal Of 1897.
That deal will not be Outlawed for over
a year yet.
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The Gas Trust IL making slathers Of
money out OF it's damnable monopoly.
1t guarantees the Ogden Company
$20O, 700 per year for not extending Its
plant under It's franchise. The money,
Of course, comes out Of the pockets of
the people.
| One Of tho Ghs Trust advisers who.
did business" at Springfield last ses.
sion, wrote to q friend In California the
other day that he was In trouble and
asking him to use his influence to-
"quiet" the men who are after the brlbe'
givers.
A number OF corporations keep law
yers for the purpose Of briblng Jurors!
and buying Legislatures.
Rope! Rope!! Rope!!!
The Gns Trust middlemen and 90.
betweens who operated at Springfield
two years ago are said to have made.
nice sum by "holding OUT on their
victims, the bribe-taking legislators.
Many Of these only got one-third the
sum allotted to them.
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How many members Of this Leglsla-
ture are friends Of the Gas Trust:
The State Board Of Railroad and'
Warehouse Commissioners IL preparing
to introduce bill which will bring all
street railway, express and telephone.
and telegraph companies under their
Jurisdiction to the extent of requiring
the corporations to furnish the board
with annual reports Of their earnings.
The stock yards and the sleeping car
companies will also be included In the
boards bul. The measure, according
to Chairman Lihdley, is not designed
to increase the power Of the board, but
simply to give II a supervisory power
In certain details that are of more or
less concern to the public.
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The attorney for the Gas Trust who
was In Springfield In 1897 should Ger.
tatniy be examined.