Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

American Telephone crowd who con.
troll the telephone business Of the
whole country. His report also shows
that the Chicago branch Of the monop.
oily is obliged to buy all Of its equip
ment from q notorious Electric Com.
pany which Is also owned by the
American Telephone Trust. This com.
pany makes its own prices for what
1t sells to the other concern and the
people Of Chicago are expected to pay
for the profits Of both subsidiary insti.
tutions 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 q quarter OF a million people
in Chicago. Recently It has grown 20
bold that 1t managed to grab of for
the purchase Of its watered stock
big sum Of money donated by the gen.
erous Chicago public for the immedi.
ate relief Of the widows and orphans
of brave firemen who gave up their
lives last December in the discharge
Of their duty. Any alderman who
votes for an ordinance favoring the
Telephone Trust deserves the ignom.
iny which he will certainly receive.
Drop a penny in the slot and tele.
phone"
Aid. Herman J. Bauler, who origi.
mated the Seventy Cent Gas league In
the mayoral campaign, proposes to
settle telephone rates now that the
league has completed its end of the
gas price rates and left II for the
courts to say whether the 75 to 6s
cent sliding scale ordinance is fair.
Aid. Bauler insists that the penny
telephone idea is all right and says
he has worked out the idea without
the aid Of any expert like Edward w.
Bemis or w. J. Hagenah, who were
engaged in both the gas and telephone
rate Investigations.
name of the Seventy Cent Gas League
to the "Penny Telephone League"
The alderman declares that the tele.
phone meter problem may be salts.
factorily solved, although mechanical
experts throughout the country have
been endeavoring to solve 1t for years.
The telephone monopoly In Chicago
has grown to be an unbearable nuts
ance.
The service 10 rotten.
The scandal attendant ON the pass
age of the telephone ordinance BY the
council Ave years ago 10 not forgot
ten.
The passage of the present ordi
nance will result in something more
than scandal for the facts will be
easier to get at.
Any alderman who votes for an In
crease of rates will be branded as he
ought to be.
The Chicago American Of June "a
contained the following vigorous ar
ticle on the subject of merger:
The New York Times announces
that there IL hope Of telephone com
petition in New York City and thai
Armour. the great packer Of Chicago
Is said to be back Of the plan.
The idea is to buy up certain fran
chises In the State Of New York, 20
pecially to get an entrance into New
York City, and to give to the citizens
the benefit Of telephone competition
and of actually cheap service.
The idea of cheap telephone servic.
is going to grow in the United States
and eventually 1t is going to he real
ized, despite the power Of any mon
opoly or the profits Of any group O
individuals.
It costs less, or under proper man
agement would cost less, to send ,
telephone message than to send {
letter.
There was a time in the Unite,
States when private individuals ex
plotted the mails and when the citl
zen writing a letter paid from tel
| cents to q dollar or more to hav,
It delivered. Government ownership
economical, businesslike methods
have reduced the price of sending lei
ters to two cents all over the Unite'
States-even in the Klondike, wher
the letters are carried on dog sledgei
And sane, businesslike administra
tion OF the telephone system Of thi
country, with the latest up.to.date AZ
tomato methods. would make tele
phoning as cheap as writing letters
and cheaper.
That viii not come at once. but
very great Improvement will come
and right away.
The price charged by the Bell moI
opoly 10 eposterous-there is n,
worse form of extortion among all tn
extortions in the United States.
A man who lives in the suburb
thirty miles from big city gets
Communication ticket. The railroa'
carries his two-hundred-pound bod.
back and forth twice q day TO
twenty-five cents q day. II he want
to talk to his house twice . day tn
telephone company charges him slit