Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

100000 to S1.OOO.OOO (crascd). Added
items: Market value of capital stock.
S2.5O0,OOO: total Indebtedness, S1,552.-
900; personal property. S2I5,NOO. 1t
Is said that one of the most important
schedules Is missing--thnt of the Chi
cago City Railway. Post.
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\ distinguished Chicago lawyer re.
Gently said on the stump:
"In discussing the transportation
question we are accustomed to speak of
the capitalists rs though they held the
key TO the situation. This Is Il mis-
take. If we were TO advertise that
certain privileges were to be let in this
city we would have gold by the million
flowing In from all quarters of the
globe. We are the real capitalists.
We furnish the right of way and the
market for the commodity the trans
portation company has for sale. The
company furnishes but one itcm-the
lucrc that can he found anywhere.
"rhc people can get along without
the strcet.railway companies. but these
companies cannot get along without the
people. All we have to do Is To rccOg-
nize that we are the masters of the
people will not abuse their power I'M.
less provoked iii their patience Is eX-
hausted. They viii no longer stand
for men stealing into the council by
the back door IN the dead of night.
The time has come In Chicago when
no council darcs to sell us out. We
are alert. ana woe to any council that
undertakes to do us out of our own.
The true function of the transporta-
ton companies, or at least one of their
true functions. IL to eIualiZe the Op-
portunitics of all citizens. Many of
the people have yet apparently to learn
that the companies are our servants In.
stead of our masters. \ few years
ago there was u strike on the Chicago
City Railway, and when asked as u
matter of public information concern.
| Ing the relations of the company with
Its employees the president replied that
was n matter between the company
public he id
I'm entering into new arrangements
with the slrcct-railwny companies the
starting point must be u clear and cN.
| pliclt recognition on the part of the
companies of the fact that they are
not private corporations but public
agents To receive just, ana only just.
compensation for the services rendered
by them. \ tlcup Of the railway lines
by strike Of employees must be made
impossible, and other matters of such
vital interest To the people must be
regulated by them. We ought to have
n system of universal transfers. The
present s0-callcd system was diab0llc-
ally contriyed SO that you can get u
transfer where you do not want one
AMI cannot get it where you do want
one. As far back as 1852 II was pro-
vidcd that u person could ride from
33th street and Cottage Grove avenue
to Madison street and out Madison to
| Western avenue for ! cents. BY sub.
scIuent corrupt legislation this cannot
he done. \ man ought to he able Ia
buy : cents worth of transportation
anywhere In the city limits for : cents.
I'VE of Chicago are not half civilized.
Women, girls and men are packed into
strcct-cars like hogs. \ modest woman
Is crowded In cars In such a way that
her sense of personal dignity Is alfrOnt.
cd every time she IL forced to board
one of these crowded cars People
who board street-cars should he pro.
vided with seats, The long trains
should be done away with. There Is
no possible justification for them eX'
ccpt the saving of the wages of a few
employees ana an increase of dividends
for the transportation companies"
ReN
| Washington, ID. c., April 13.-COmp
irollcr of the Currency Chas. q. Dawes
intends To inaugurate his active cam
paign for United States Senator by
BUSTING william Lorimer from thu
control of the Republican party In Cook
County. II the Comptroller follows
the plan ne has in mind ut present the
hardest fight ever known between the
Republican factions of Chicago will bt
the result Mr.. Dawes places no faith
In the anonymous announcement tina,
L0rmer is about to retire from poll
tics.
Il am ready to begin the fight now,
! said Mr.. Dawes, "and ! am going Il
take the same position ! took when
made the fight for the craftsmanship o.
the last State Republican Convention
In Illinois. At that time l told thu
delegates that it was absolutely neces
. sary TO wrest the control of the part!
organization from the men who wer'
using it for their personal gain. Thu
sOundness of my position, ] think, wa
demonstrated by the recent Chicago