Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-01
Men Who Are Candidates and
Men Who Are Not and What
People Say.

People Say.
Give us a referendum on phone
rates.
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In the matter OF phone rates, some
aldermen, from their actions, seem to
have the idea that as long as the pub.
lie has for years been played for
sucker, 1t would be poor policy to
change now.
Thirty.first warders couldn't have
better representative in the City
Council than A. II. Brown, the popular
and well.known attorney.
Anyone who imagines that the Pro.
gressive party is dead in local politics
will be badly fooled. The Progressive
party has come to stay.
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Automatic telephone service is
really the only service for big city.
It insures privacy and does away with
the wrong number nuisance and
other delays.
A number Of bad aldermen will be
retired in the spring
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The telephone trust contemplates
another big public improvement. Il
IL going to raise it, dividend.
Judge Charles A. Williams Is max.
ing the excellent record on the Mu-
nicipal Court bench that all his friends
predicted he would make.
Illinois Is proud to claim Former
United States Senator Albert ]. Hop.
kins as one Of her foremost men.
Telephone rates are entirely too
high In Chicago. The Aldermen have
q chance to lower them. VIII they
do It?
Congressman Lynden Evans would
make worthy Federal Judge.
The telephone trust wants to add
to the high cost Of living.
It wants all phones in Chicago
placed on the nickel.in.advance basis
and It has the gall to ask the Alder.
men to sanction this robbing.
Under the proposed scheme, every
time housewife ordered o pound Of
butter by telephone she would have
to deposit Q nickel before telephon.
ing.
But the telephone trust must have
victims, otherwise Il could not con
tinue to pay eight per cent per annum
In dividends to its stockholders.
The people Of Chicago are looked
upon by the trust az easy marks.
| Give us referendum vote on tele
phone rates.
| From the dust that the Telephone
Trust is trying to throw In the eyei
Of everybody Just now. II 10 evidentl,
determined to fight every attempt Il
lower high telephone rates.
| This leaves the public with but one
recourse.
Telephone competition must b.
built up and encouraged.
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The people demand referendum
vote on the question of telephone
rates.
| Patrons Of the Northwestern L com
plain Of bad service. 1t IL gettin(
worse every day.
public officials In Cook County Is A. R
Porter. Clerk Of the Appellate Court
ADVERTISEMENT
THE AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE.
| For q good many years the Chicag'
public had ample opportunity to oh
serve what telephone monopoly mean
In the way Of service.
The rates had been raised severa
times-and threats of another rails
were being made. There was talk o
abolishing certain forms of residence
service. The public was treated will
scant courtesy. There were intermin
able delays in changing old phone
and installing new ones.
Then came the automatic telephone
bringing with 1t the much neede'
spur of competition.
! What happened?
| Immediately the utmost efforts Il
improve the manual service wer'
made.
But II is q cold, hard fact that thes
efforts have been to large degree
unsuccessful. 1t IL simply a physica
impossibility to make manual servic
come anywhere near the remarkably
efficiency of the automatic.
The reason 10 obvious. The auto
matte Is q higher development of tn