Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-30

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they have paid for. And on the same
like Of argument the NsstAweeeeeA
Railroad should double the price Of
railroad fares because II has erected
. S2S,o0o,ooo depot.
All telephone patents should bs con.
Ascated 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 ease
exactly:
I'm an argument before the national
senats's interstate commerce oomlt-
tee, Senator Kenyon recently urged
several notifications Of the Sherman
antitrust law. One Of them provided
that when any patent granted by the
government 10 used 70 build up . trust
Of combination the patent shan b Sse.
Seite6."
Municipal ownsrship Of telephones
10 favored by Aid. Herman J. Baulsr.
VITO has been advocating penny tsls.
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 q referendum vote.
AID. Bauler think It would be pos.
sible for the city TO purchase the
automatic system already Installed
and to operate Il on . municipal
ownership basis. He asserts Il 10 his
intention. unless new rates are set
tied By the council and the Chicago
Telephone company, to get up . peti.
ton and ask for IN expression from
the voters on the question Of the mu.
nicipality operating . telephone sys.
tenn. Il 10 understood Aid. Bauler
proposes to get this expression un.
der the public policy act, which per.
mits the submission Of . question Of
public policy to the voters, the de-
cision being merely advisory and not
binding.
The Telephone Trust has com.
menced bitter and An uncalled for
attack on the Mayor and honest alder.
men Of the city Of Chicago who are
lighting for the peoples rights against
. hsartless monopoly.
The Telephone Trust 10 opposed to
the honest. capable and eficient 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
70 throw dirt upon honest men In the
city government who oppose ito dom.
inesring and extortionate methods.
The Illinois Tunnel Company has
fully complied with the terms Of it,
ordinance and yet the graftsrs union
70 not satisfied.
Il wants the Illinois Tunnel Com.
pany which has expended over &2,So0.'
900 In instruments. wires and station
squipments, 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 Tsle'
phone Monopoly will be beaten to
Anish the next time he runs for once
According to some accounts several
men who are working for the mon
opoly and its franchise may not be
residents OF Chicago when the next
election comes around.
The Telephone Monopoly 10 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 learr
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 ugi!
rumors going the rounds Just now.
But the Mayor, Corporation Counse
and honest aldermen are not the onei
affected by them.
A watchful eye ia being kept on tn
situation by too many people to hav'
II easily misunderstood.
A new report has been ordered ol
the books and accounts OF the Tele
phone Trust.
When the aldermen get that repor
they ought to be In position to low
er rates.
II they raise them they will rails
something hotter than this climat
has been for the past few weeks.
~
Mayor Harrison made q popula
move whom he ordered a new repor
on the telephone situation. The "ez
pert" whose report ia now In tn
hands OF the Council Committee fay
orsd the raising Of rates and . ger
eral contribution to the necessities Q
the phone gang. His report strangel