Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-08-10
CITY, COUNTY and STATE
Official, Political and General News from the
Different Public Offices of Public Interest.

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The Telephone Trust is the most
grinding of the many trusts that exist
in the United States.
1t snuffs out competition by the
power of its money and the people
are like so many serfs to be used at
its own beck and call.
The rising tide Of Indignation will
never subside until the whole Tele.
phone Trust and its aides and abettors
are punished. 4 aN
The Telephone Monopoly obliges
the users of nickel phones to guaran.
tee S cents per day. If the monthly
deposit of nickels falls short Of the
guarantee the company makes the
phone renter pay the difference. II
there should happen to be an excess
Of nickels the company gobbles them
all. The phone renter gets no credit
for that excess. That's the logic Of
the monopoly.
The telephone trust 10 the most
grinding Of the many trusts that exist
in the United States.
Il snuffs out competition By the
power OF It's money and the people
are like 20 many serfs 70 be used ct
It's own beck and call.
The rising tide Of Indignation will
never subside until the whole tele'
phone trust and Ito aides and abettors
are punished.
Charles F. Dewoody. division super.
intendent in the Department Of Jus
tice secret service, returned from .
trip on which II 10 reported he has
been gathering information for the A.
torney. General regarding the alleged
Bell telephone monopoly.
Telephone rates are entirely too
high IN Chicago. The Aldermen have
a chance to lower them. Will they
do It?
It 10 reported that an investigation
national In it, scope. 10 being carried
on by the forces Of Attorney. General
Wickersham looking to the iling Of
proceedings for the dissolution Of the
alleged trust. An exhaustive invests.
CATION has been going on In Chicago.
It 10 said, Of the operations Of the Bell
syndicate alleged TO be In violation Of
the Sherman law.
"You have been West Il 10 under
stood for the purpose Of getting data
bearing on the alleged telephone
trust. have you notf" Dswoody wa
asked.
"That 10 . matter that I cannot
possibly discuss. There 10 nothing
that We can announce regarding any
such investigation" was the reply.
Tho enormous dividends paid to IL
stockholders by the Telephone Trust
are wrung from the pockets OF the
people by excessive telephone charges
Telephone rates must be reduced
and In time they will be.
The fact that one city council will
barter away the peoples rights 10 nc
reason why succeeding councils should
do the same.
The tight for cheaper telephone
service will 90 on unity It II won.
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A telephone company that paya
eight per cent dividends on twenty
nine millions Of stock 10 making too
much money. The people are psyins
too much for telephone service
| The telephone trust contemplated
another big public Improvement. II
Is going to raise it, dividend.
People who have been helpinS thl
telephone company 70 pay eight pel
cent stock dividends and 70 srsc'
twenty story buildings want telephone
rates reduced.
Chicago people demand Q rsduetiol
Of telephone rates.
A cent q call or ct the most ~
cents q call would yield the telephone
company . profit and save money fol
the people.
| In big advertisements printed b
Chicago daily newspapers April ~
1919. the concern offering $4,000. oo'
Of telephone bonds for sale. quotes
letter from the president Of the com
pany In which It 10 stated that tela
phone
Earnings have shown Q steady an
substantial growth, having increase'
from $3,129.23S in 1900 to 112.67S
39O.57 In 1911, or an increase Of owe
800 per cent In the past eleven years.
Why not give the public the beneA
Of this prosperity?
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There will be some funny surprise
next fall.
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John J. Mclaughlin has the supper
of the best people In the Nineteent
District at all times. His re.electlo
to the legislature Is certainty.
The candidacy Of Hugh J. Kearns fo
municipal Judge on the Democrat
ticket deserves the votes Of all goo
| citizens irrespective of party afiili,