Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-01-21
And Gas Trust Lawyers, Heelers and Dupes
Who Were Mixed Up Will
Suffer.
The Gas Trust Plant Is Worth Four Millions,
but Is Capitalized for Thirty
Millions.
The People Of Chicago Are Squeezed Out Of
the Surplus to Enrich
Europeans.

| pared. The people pay for wind which
costs the Trust nothing.
Special assessments for gas lamps 60
right along, hut the poor people do not
get the gas on the streets after they
pay their assessments. The Gas Trust
owns the streets. The city has moth.
ing to do with them.
The Gas Trust Is not furnishing one
half the light II should furnish, ana for
years. according to published reports,
1t did not furnish 2?-candlc power 10
the city.
II Is reported that the Gas Trust IL
getting paid for thousands of lamps
which are not In service, and this can
bc easily verified.
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The whole plant Of the Gas Trust In
Chicago can be replaced with even bet.
ter machinery for $4,OOO,OOO.
Yet It Is capitalized for $3O, 200, 900,
and Is paying dividends on that basis.
Where does the $26,OOO,OOO Of sur.
plus come from?
From the pockets Of the people Of
Chicago.
The people Of Chicago are squeezed
In order that the rich and titled stock.
holders In Europe may get their dlvi.
dcnds.
All Of which proves that when the
serfs Of Europe are no longer profit.
able that serfs who are profitable can
be found In Chicago. III.
To make the Chicago serfs more
profitable, the money Of the European
mobiles was used to buy such legisla.
tlon as would make Chicago serfs
tractable and give them no chance to
kick.
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We are anxious to see whether the
Gas Trust will buy the Board of As.
SCISSORS and Board Of Review this year.
1t will try TO.
Keep your eye on the assessments
of the $3O,OOO,OOO Gas Trust (Which
has u perpetual monopoly In Chicago)
under the new revenue law.
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The Legislature will have chance
to show Its hand when the bill author
lzlng the city of Chicago to sell electric
light to private consumers comes up
for passage. The city now has an ctii.
clent electric light plant. ana II the
Legislature gives 1t the necessary per.
mission, Chicago people will be able to
get light independent of the Gas Trust.
Pass the bill.
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Can Gas Trust money beat the new
revenue law?
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The receipts of the Gas Trust should
be taxed.
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What Is the Legislature going to do
with the Gas Trust?
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The Gas Consolidation and Frontage
Law Is to he tested In the courts short
ly. Some stockholders are preparing n
bill to test the cOnstitutiOnality of tn"
law.
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II the Attorney General, the Sanga-
mon County Grand Jury and the hon
est members of the Senate ana House
DO not shlrk their plain duty, 1t will be
an easy matter to bring the warehouse
and gas boOdlers up with q round turn
and send them where they belong.
Public opinion should be aroused on
this subject. Every honest man in H.
llnols should consider it a personal
duty TO aid In the pursuit of the scoun-
drels who poison the stream of Justice
nj It's source. The crime of sending
dose of poison through the mails rs a
Christmas gift Is of less turptltude
than that Of planning secret means to
approach Legislator and to corrupt
his judgment by a brlbe.
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There Is no knowing how long the
Legislature of this State has been sub
jected TO the attacks of scOundrels
who sought to pervert justice in favor
of dishonest corporations, or existing
trusts. There may have been much or
may have been little Of this crime in
the past. Ordinarily the cases become
known only where member has been
approached by bribcr and has re-
PEELED his advances, reporting the facts
to the proper authorities. Nothing can
be known OF the cases, many or few,
where lriiles haze been accnI,tad nx