The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-02-07


sasy !, IL for one mas 10 get In his
and hav. Incorporated in Its platform
schemes for personal axrancss.n~nt
The ~ hene ! am about to relate Viii
~afn the people that ~ platform De-
ma nds arc 10 BE- made into laws for
The ssssssasasH. us sazT uaiiisns s-=s
Law regulating III" adoption =
platforms.
II will b. renistnbeFp that at III.
last state convention sotns person
without previous announcement Of
his plank. withoa, any pablo dis
enss.on. without n single days con
sid.ration. secured the adoption by
The platform committee OF a plank
requiring all telegraph and telephone
lines to make physical connections.
TO exchange business aud To pro-rate
the charges for service. on 3 mileage
basis The aforeSai. plank never hay
ing been heard of before and not be-
ing understood except 20 the extent
that /. made corporation do some
thing, MAS read while nobody listened
and was adopted as matter OF
conrscs But there was q big bug un-
der this plank and they say here that
certain telegraph company being
alarmed at the hundreds Of co-apet-
alive telephone lines that are spring
ing up All ever Texas, which are
principally owned by communities of
farmers, and which are popularizing
the telephone. and taking away the
business of the telegraph companies
caused this scheme to be hatched
carefully nuriured and sprung IN the
convention on hot day in July
and adopted before YOU could say
Jack Robinson. thereafter to take
its place with platform demands and
considered for years, so that 1t
would sneak into the statutes and
there do up" the phone lines.
A bin Go. 2D has been introduc-
ed in the house TO carry out this
platform demand" and If it passes
the people who have small telephone
lines bad better get busy and sell
them.
This bin provides that telephone
lines must be connected with tele-
graph lines and the phone lines are
required to pay their share OF the
expense. 1t is further provided that
the telephone lines must handle
telegraph messag yes. Now, here is the
bug: Telegraph operators. unlike
telephone operators. are paid by the
railroad companies, therefore, in the
small towns, the telegraph companies
maintain operators without cost, SO
telegraph companies can have per
, sons at small towns TO handle their
business without cost, while the
| phone companies must pay their
| operators This gives the telegraph
companies the big advantage of well
paid and trained operators at some
body else's exI ense, but as long al
the phone operators do not have Il
repeat any messages, they Civ
louicker and more satisfactory ser
Twice, without fear Of loss by errors
LOT trans mission, which offsets The
advantage of trained employees. Now
in the scheme of compelling the
| phone companies to transmit testa-
| graph or written messages il Is
known that the phone service will
be delayed while the operators are
writing and sending messages from
point to point. and as the phone line
| secures most of its business because
of its quicker service these delays
will loose for the phone lines their
popularity. at the same time put tho
burden on them of transmitting writ
ten messages by unframed employees
or cause large expense for trained
ones as are paid for by the railroada
for the telegraph companies
This bill Will not only cripple the
the service of the phone lines and
decrease their popularity, 10 the
benefit of the telegraph lines, but
il will cause immense expense 20
small companies for connections and
practically take away all OF their rev.
cnues for lonS distance calls. For
example. minimum rates for distan~
ce& of 10 to 100 miles ar. practically
the same. and If telegraph line
handled through message for 80
miles. the local line would only get
one-tenth of the toll. although the
cost OF it's service would ho praett-
cally the same. the fixed expense Tor
al calls under q hundred miles be
ing alike This bin will prohibi, the
establishment Of small phone Ines
from any point where fhe i'i"sraph
or bis phone ines operate. unless
they can afford the oNpense = con-
ucctous and maintain hish ciass
stlaucd operators
This alleged platform demand 20
frs,nts about tse cutfvt iot ever
put M an m unNgspe. p"api"
do not. hoxsy"r, believe m an
ne enacted into las for this lssisiA'
fttr.. A. #atut.assaf al tusf4 d. Fn U41 not