Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1913-11-15
EAGLETS.

Bets are freely offered that the
telephone trust wins out again in the
council.
With aldermen in Office for four
years, the telephone company would
have sure monopoly.
Save the people from the reform.
ers." They want to raise taxes and,
accordingly, rents.
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Telephone service is getting worse.
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Until we have the recall terms of
offices should stay the way they are.
The aldermen should give the city's
rights in the automatic phone com.
pany to the Phone Trust for nothing.
Some of them are SO charitable and
the Phone Trust Is SO poor.
ElectrificatiOn Of the railroad means
loss Of employment to the majority Of
railroad employees.
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The way Of the reformer IL hard.
Especially when he wants to get all
the graft himself.
Phone Trust Aldermen oppose the
initiative and Referendum. DO you
blame them?
Senator Walter Clyde Jones Ger.
tainly handed 1t to the Phone Trust
and the Aldermanic Phone Men in
great speech against the city's giving
permission to the Automatic to sell
out to the Bell crowd:
THE Bell Company doesn't want
the Automatic except to dismantle It
and destroy competition, that they
might have absolute control over the
rates.
And why have the newspapers
kept SO strangely silent about this
theft? Why are the people kept in
the dark concerning this sinister
scheme? Why don't the members Of
the city council take the people intp
their confidence? Is II because the
scheme Is SO rotten clean through?
Nothing proves the need Of ref.
interests and refuse to be parties to
this nefarious plan.
1.-THE Automatic right now stands
forfeited by their refusal to comply
erendum more clearly than this pres
ent case. With the referendum we
could make the aldermen stand by
their pledges to guard the peoples
with their contract. II the aldermen
do the right thing they will take over
the Automatic and In that way block
the theft.
II sincerely hope that this will be
only the first Of series Of meetings
so that the people amay know how
they're being victimized. The news
papers seem singularly afraid to re-
veal the plot.
I'VE must have publicity. and II We
cant get It through the papers We
must shout It from the platforms
throughout the city.
I'm 1895 the Bell patent expired
Before that time the Bell Company
had q monopoly. After 1895 several
Independent companies were started
Competition was keen and the people
got better service at cheaper rates
Then the Bell Company started grab
bing of It's rivals. But there are still
Independent companies in Philadel
phia, Buffalo, Kansas City, Omaha ant
other large cities. Competition Is the
only safeguard Of the public. YOU
can see the effect Of II In the wal
between the Western Union and tn,
Postal Telegraph companies.
"They are constantly improving
service and undertaking each othel
In the race for business. For In
stance. the Western Union starts tn
night letter and the Postal Telegraph
comes through with the lettergram
And SO on.
"And the same conditions could b
true In telephone service on CON
petitive basis. In some places wher
there are two systems you can &c
both for the same price that one for
merly cost.
Recently the city granted the tel
ephone company o new contract fol
Ave years. Even supposing tho rate
In that contract are fair. that's NJ
argument against competition. III
the future we have got to look to
But here In Chicago we're not onl!
up against the desire of the telephone
company to control rates, we are also
up against the desire OF few mel
to steal the tunnel and eventual!
control the subway system"
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