Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-11-25

renter gets no credit for that excess.
That's the logic Of the monopoly.
All telephone rates are now sub3ses
to revision every i've yearA
The telephone company wants the
city to raise rates and abolish the pro
vision In the ordinance calling for -
vision every ave years.
They want to keep the people whSeO
they have them 20 that they can't -
away.
The expert" on pages ios and 10
Of his report apparently feels much
sympathy for the company o. this sub
jsst
VIII the aldermen show any syn
patty for the psoptsi
The telephone company wants the
public to pay high rates bseaass -
the improvements It has put IN The
service. II this kind Of reasoniaS holds
good. then Marshall Field q @. aAA
The Fair should charge higher prices
for the goods because Of the Ans
buildings and other inprovomsnts
they have paid for. And on the same
like OF argument the Noethwsstsel
Railroad should double the price Of
railroad fares because It has erected
32s,00o,o00 depot.
All telephone patents should be con.
dscated 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 tho 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 10 used to build up trust
or combination the patent shall b for
Seitsd."
Municipal owrarship Of telephones
10 favored by AID. Herman J. Bauler.
WHO 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 q referendum vote.
AID. BauIer think It would be pos.
sible for the city to purchase the
automatic system already installed
and to operate It on a municipal
ownership basis. He asserts 1t is his
tied by the council and the Chicago
Telephone company. to get up 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 question OF
publ, policy to the voters, the de.
cision being merely advisory and not
binding.
Mayor Harrison made . popular
move when he ordered q new repor,
on the telephone situation. The "ex
pert" whose report Ia now in the
hands OF the Council Committee fav
ored the raising OF rates and Q gen
eral contribution to the necessities oi
the phone gang. His report strangely
enough showed that the Chicago
branch OF the monopoly 10 owned
body, boots and breeches by the
American Telephone crowd who con
troll the telephone business OF the
whole country. His report also show!
that the Chicago branch OF the monop
oily is obliged TO buy all OF its equip
ment from notorious Electric Com
pany which is also owned by the
American Telephone Trust. This com
pany makes its own prices for wha
II sells 10 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 thins
is the Telephone Trust. This Trus
hits over a quarter OF a million people
in Chicago. Recently II has grown e
bold that IL managed TO grab of fol
the purchase OF It's watered stock {
big sum OF money donated by the gen
erous Chicago public for the immedl
ate relief OF the widows and orphans
of brave fremen who gave up thei
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
The service Is rotten.