The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-12-08
WAR TO The END
Isaepeadea, Isephens Companies Plan
10 Fight lie Truss
MAKE NATIONAL FIGHT
They Wei Appeal to President Taft
and WI, Invoke the Aid Of th"
Courts In Their Campaign Against
the Billion Dollar Telephone and
Telegraph Merger.

Telegraph Merger.
Declaring :has President Taft and
the highest coc-,s IA the land vii!
be invoked 70 check the monopoly
Of conounieat.on that Is threaten
ed by the h!llion-doiiars combine.
recently announced ey ,he Bel! tele-
sAooe trust. representatives of to"
,odeceodens telephone interest
through the country arc planning In
New York a national ashs 20. the
principle Of open competition.
With 100000 OF the savings
OF the people OF alnos: every local.
y invested IN tie independent. tele-
phone plants tha: the new wire trust
Is determined 20 rule or ruin. lead
ees !: this movement assert. tie
tnteres. Of tie public demand that
the government take Immediate ae-
ton against the giant merger.
A: convention Of the !ndepen-
dent Telephone association tha; has
Been called IN Chicago Coz Decen.
ber {, Representatives o; the l2,oeo
companies. that with 100000 sub
sc-sbess are now competing with
the telephone trust. will make q for.
nal protest 70 Washington against
the restraint Of trade taat they be-
,se7e vii! be Effected by the aosorp
ton Of every telegraph interest By
tie Bel! system.
To the attorney general Of ever,
one OF the many States III which
shey assert Wall street money is aos
being used 70 Illegally force Bel
monopoly. the independent telc
phone forces are proposed 20 sppea
70: protection Suit to prerort th'
acquisition By the telephone t:us
Of important systems .Su:lt by tn
people OF Ohio. Indiana. Missouri
Iowa and Michigan. have slvead.
beea instituted in S.. Louis ant
Cleveland. and the independent lead
ess declare every similar move Z
throttle competition will be Tough
70 the last ditch
Unless the new wire trust is a
once prevented from carrying out It
scheme to illegally absorb all eoca
pesito.s throughout the cont;nen;
the Independent telephone mea
pcoohesy. the people Of the countr
VIII soon be forced into the poSe
OF a monopoly greater aad more ar
h.tsa-y than that os either the oi!
beef or sugar trust
as g possible r!va! 70 the biilse
dollar communication trust in th
telegraph and long distance ,e!e
phone selds. independent forces A.
preparing 20 build trunk w!-
systen that will reach Eom :h
Atlantic seaeoarc 70 the Nilsson:
river. for the benefit OF the peopi
who use the telephone exchange
they have built independent. at aoDe
as well as for genera! telephone Dos
mess. Unlike the Bell system. tai
enterprise VIII seek not to kill CON
petition Dot 20 foster and inceeas
;s, Il IS decIsred. Already $4,000,
coo have been subscribed toward
shss plan 70, preventing tho PFC
posed monopoly os the wire ::us'
Tsae the cos. Of beth ,eiephon
and telegraph service Will be ic
creased II the oew wi:e trust obtain
monopoly Is proved already oy ID
pas. history OF IFS promoters. -
independent telephone men declare
EsocSsssne -a:es and either poo
service 0. none at all wece ofe7e
by the Bell combine IN aH The year
OF lis former monopoly through pa;
en-. rights. i. Is poiated out. 4
these conditions h9ough, about ID
birth OF the independent telephoa
movement. the. must resume on rh
snstsnt Of It's death. it Is urged.
We Zee! We owe moral a
well as business obligation TO ea
army OF Americans throughout 10
coontEy who have placed 100000.
090 Of their earnings in the ao1a
telephone plants. built 70 I'D thea
OF the Bell moDopoly." said e Il
Morltoa. president Of tie lndepea
dent association. I'VE shall cxeT
ourselves Il every possible way q
show the government that it. too
has an obligation TO protect ties
Investors as we'll IS sbe 2e.eo0.0a'
eus:o1eTs IN Independent telephoo,
sSsscnS We shall not stop our fgh
Soe the riga. OF competition. ever
with all tie Wal! street capital O
this new billion dollar trust array
cd against Us: but Will push IL <
the highes. courts and aduia!sua
Eve authority