Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-22


engaged in both the gas and telephone
rate investigations.
Aid. Bauler wants to change the
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.
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The Telephone Trust has com.
menced a bitter ana an uncalled for
attack on the Mayor and honest alder.
men of the city Of Chicago who are
fighting for the peoples rights against
q heartless monopoly.
The Telephone Trust is opposed TO
the honest, capable and efficient serv.
ice that Mr.. J. Ogden Armour and his
colleagues are prepared to give to the
city with their automatic service.
The Telephone Trust has changed
managers in Chicago and has decided
to throw dirt upon honest men in the
city government who oppose Its dom.
ineering and extortionate methods.
The Illinois Tunnel Company has
fully complied with the terms Of i.s
ordinance and yet the grafters union
IL not satisfied.
Il wants the Illinois Tunnel Com
pany which has expended over $2,300,-
900 in instruments, wires and station
equipments, to be forced to give up
all Of this to satisfy the Telephone
Trust.
Any alderman who votes In favor
of an increase Of rates for the Tele.
phone Monopoly will be beaten to a
finish the next time he runs for ONCE.
According to some accounts several
men who are working for the mon.
opoly and It's franchise may not be
residents Of Chicago when the next
election comes around.
The Telephone Monopoly is busy
circulating ugly rumors" about the
Corporation Counsel, the Mayor and
the honest aldermen who are standing
up for the peoples rights.
ugly rumors" is good.
Aldermen who are anxious to learn
the truth ought to inquire into the de.
tails Of the passage OF the telephone
ordinance five years ago.
ugly rumors"!
Well. there are some pretty ugly
rumors going the rounds just now.
But the Mayor, Corporation Counsel
and honest aldermen are not the ones
affected by them.
A watchful eye Is being kept on the
situation by too many people to have
1t easily misunderstood.
A new report has been ordered on
the books and accounts Of the Tele'
phone Trust.
When the aldermen get that report
they ought to be In q position to low
er rates.
II they raise them they will raise
something hotter than this climate
has been 10: the past few weeks.
Mayor Harrison made popular
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 a gen
eral contribution to the necessities o
the phone gang. His report strangel!
enough showed that the Chicago
branch OF the monopoly Is owned
body, boots and breeches by tn
American Telephone crowd who con
troll the telephone business OF tn
whole country. His report also show
that the Chicago branch OF the monop
oily Is obliged to buy all of It's equir
ment from a notorious Electric Com
pany which Is also owned by tn
American Telephone Trust. This CON
pany makes It's own prices for wha
il sells TO the other concern and tn
people Of Chicago are expected TO pa
for the profits OF both subsidiary inst
tutions OF the Trust.
Talk about the Tobacco Trust, tn
Standard Oil Trust and every othe
trust. The trust that is the real thin
Is the Telephone Trust. This Trus
hits over quarter OF million peopl
in Chicago, Recently 1t has grown s
bold that IL managed to grab of 10
the purchase Of its watered stock
big sum Of money donated by the gel
erous Chicago public for the immed
ate relief OF the widows and orphan
OF brave firemen who gave up the
lives last December In the dischare
OF their duty. Any alderman wh
votes for an ordinance fayoring u
Telephone Trust deserves the ignor
iny which he will certainly receive.
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The telephone monopoly In ChicaI
has grown TO be an unbearable nu
ance.
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