The Greeley tribune., 1905-08-10

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petition is what people want. with
fewer retail stores the consumers
stand to pay more for what they
buy; but with one telephone COM
pany in Greeley it is only question
of time when the subscribers Will be
taxed to the limit for using tele'
phone. But that rule might prove
renumerative to you, if the Tribune
was the only newspaper in Greeley,
ils stock might then be worth more
than fifteen cents on the dollar.
please explain without asking
the Bell company how it is double
expense for a business man to pay
81. 80 month to reach from 400 to
700 telephone subscribers on different
phones, when, before the lndepend-
ent company was doing business. 1t
cost him So month to reach 81 sub
scribers? If business done Is not TO
be considered and valued, why not
discharge most of your employees, for
with the saving of their wages you
would be better off.
I'm exploiting my business
methods by slurs and innuendoeS you
forget the old saying People living
in glass houses should not throw
stones. How is that with the Trib-
uue showing signs of prosperity,
each stockholder gets nothing more
than the paper every year as his
only dividend? The price of the
subscription is 50 a year and this
has to satisfy stockholders carrying
stock to the value OF $50 or more.
What have YOU against the gas
company? 1t does not owe you one
cent and no one is compelled to
patronize it. But why not be fair
and honest-at least occasionally
and make inquiries as to what con-
sumers think of it as an illuminant,
compared with the electric light.
Ask merchants on gloomy winter
days what they think of it? ASK
Mr.. O'Connor of the Oasis Hotel
what he thinks of it as light and
for cheapness? But why ask you to
do what is fair and manly and ex-
pect you to do without special
compensation.
Regarding the purchase or other
wise of C. r. Weber, publisher of
The Sun: l can honestly say that
so far as my knowledge goes that he
never received one cent, nor was he
promised money or favors for the
SUMS support Of the old independent
company's swindled stockholders;
nor for its support of the recent in
dependent move. But l do heartily
and honestly believe that he was in.
fiuenced to such actions by public
sentiment, and the love of fair play
that every man, more or less, has In
him.
I'm this respect what do you
think of the petition signed by four
hundred Greeley citizens, a large
number of them merchants, dealers
and professional men? Did those
subscribers get pay. or promise OF
favors to sign that petition? Nine
out of every ten business houses In
Greeley signed the petition: they
asked that c.. Fl. Ramsay be given a
fair franchise for telephone system
and four aldermen: JACOBS, Phil
lips, Ward and Wilson opposed
them, and with the assistance of a
weakling, drew up, passed and
tackled on to that franchise a lot of
amendment that made that instru-
ment absolutely worthless. Then
you in the face of that petition,
have the gall, not nerve, but gall, to
rejoice at such work, and accuse all
who favored another telephone, as
cheats, swindlers and grafters.
But yon were careful not to
'holler' till you knew how the cat
; had jumped. Mr.. Wolfe why did
you remain silent so long and keep
so quiet on telephone. matters till
after the council had jobbed the
: franchise? Is it true that you told
R. G. Strong the reason you could
not enter the telephone contention,
was owing to Dick Kelley knows l
; carry Bell frank and that l have
carried one for years and that l am a
, personal friend of E. B. Field's?'
i, Was it because Mr.. Kelley, as editor
, Of the Sun, might take advantage OF
that knowledge and give you Hail
Columbia through that paper. For
, shame Wolfe. To accept franking
j favors and privileges from the Bell
7 company for years; and to daily use
Bell phone to talk to whom you
pleased in any part of Colorado, at a
| saving to you of many dollars, and
then go back on the company when
] it was in trouble; to sulk and hide
J In your office when it needed a
friend, why I'm heartily ashamed of
I YOU and / think the Bell ppOnle are