Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-12-02
renter gets no credit for that excess.
That's the logic Of the monopoly.

renter gets no credit for that excess.
That's the logic Of the monopoly.
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All telephone rates are now Gubjoct |
to revision every ave yeara.
The telephone company wants the
city to raise rates and abolish the pro |
vision In the ordinance calling for - |
vision every i've years.
They want to keep the people whseS |
they have them 20 that they can't 81 |
away.
The expert" on pages los and 10
Of his report apparently feels muel |
sympathy for the company On this sue
Jest
VIII the aldermen show any syn
psthy for the pssSasi
The telephone company wants the
public to pay high rates bseanse -
the improvements II has put IN The
service. n this kind Of rsasoniag ho3ds
good. then Marshall Field q @. anl
The Fair should charge higher prices
for the goods because Of the 6ns
buildings and other improvements
they have paid for. And on the same
like Of argument the Northwsstsrs
Railroad should double the price Of
railroad fares because II has erected
S2s.ooo,ooo depot.
All telephone patents should be con.
ascatsd by the government when they
become the exclusive property Of the
Telephone Trust. The following from
an editorial in the Chicago Daily
News Of July II. 1911. hits the case
exactly:
I'm An argument before the national
senate's interstate commerce comit'
tee. Senator Kenyon recently urged
several notifications Of the Sherman
antitrust law. One Of them provided
that when any patent granted BY the
government 70 used to build up trust
or combination the patent shall b for.
teited!"
Municipal ownership OF telephones
10 favored by AID. Herman J. Bauler.
wEo has been advocating penny tele-
phones" He serves notice that un.
less the Chicago Telephone company
agrees to new schedule Of rates be.
fore the aldermanic election next
April, he will endeavor to bring the
municipal ownership idea before the
people for a referendum vote.
AID. Bauler think It would be pos.
sible for the city to purchase the
automatic system already installed
and to operate 1t on q municipal
ownership basis. He asserts II Is his
intention. unless new rates are set
tied by the council and the Chicago
Telephone company to get up a peti'
ton and ask for an expression from
the voters on the question OF the mu
nicipality operating a telephone sys
tenn. II is understood Aid. Bauler
proposes TO get this expression un
der the public policy act. which per
mits the submission Of a question oi
cision being merely advisory and no,
binding.
Mayor Harrison made popula,
move when he ordered new report
on the telephone situation. The "ex
pert" whose report Is now In the
hands OF the Council Committee fav
ored the raising OF rates and q gen
eral contribution to the necessities o.
the phone gang. His report strangely
enough showed that the Chicago
branch OF the monopoly Is owned
body, boots and breeches by the
American Telephone crowd who con
troll the telephone business OF th'
whole country. His report also shows
that the Chicago branch OF the monop
oily Is obliged TO buy all OF It's equip
ment from a notorious Electric Com
pany which is also owned by the
American Telephone Trust. This com
pany makes its own prices for wha'
II sells TO the other concern and the
people Of Chicago are expected to pay
for the profits OF both subsidiary insti
tutlons OF the Trust.
Talk about the Tobacco Trust, the
Standard Oil Trust and every Other
trust. The trust that Is the real thing
Is the Telephone Trust. This Trust
hits over a quarter OF million people
in Chicago, Recently 1t has grown e
bold that II managed to grab of fol
the purchase OF its watered stock
big sum OF money donated by the gen
erous Chicago public for the inmedl
ate relief of the widows and orphans
OF brave fremen who gave up theil
lives last December in the discharge
OF their duty. Any alderman wht
votes for an ordinance favoring th'
Telephone Trust deserves the ignom
my which he will certainly receive.
The telephone monopoly In Chicag
has grown to be an unbearable nuis
ance