Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-01


purchase Of public officials will not
help the cause Of monopoly.
The newspapers which support mo-
nopoly have lost their influence with
the public, which is intelligent and
possessed Of q good memory.
Public officials who give away the
peoples rights or show favors to the
telephone monopoly will not be for.
gotten.
On the contrary, they will be prop.
erly branded and will be retired to
private life.
The people are In no frame Of mind
to be trifed with. They are showing
this every day and at every election.
The man who sells them out to
trust may win the appreciation Of
some millionaireowned daily paper.
but the common citizen, who II In.
suited, neglected and overcharged By
the telephone service, will not forget.
There IL one thing that the average
voter has o knife up his sleeve for.
That thing 10 the public ofncial who
favors the Telephone Trust.
The election Of Albert J. Hopkins
to the United States Senate to all the
short term would only be an act Of
Justice on the part Of the legislators.
He was wrongfully deprived Of this
seat in the first place and every fair.
minded citizen in Illinois believe he IL
entitled to 1t now.
The fellows who want to change the
names Of streets, evidently want the
residents and business men to begin
all over again in the matter Of loca-
ton.
Every time you 60 to the telephone
you feel like voting against . man
who favors the Phone Trust
Both AZ q lawyer and o citizen,
James 8. Hopkins 10 liked and respect
ed by all who come in contact with
him.
Changing the names Of we'll known
streets merely ties up business and
confuses the community.
One thing the people are sick and
tired Of IL home rule that favors
phone magnates.
Reducing salaries Of policemen.
firemen and city employees twenty per
cent and giving 100000 Of money
due the city to the telephone com.
pany to raise the salaries of its EN-.
ployes is fine record for the city
council.
Give the people q referendum vote
on the telephone rates.
Taxpayers are not looking with any
relish upon the efforts Of certain re-
formers to have legislation passed
that will raise taxes. They are car
rying pretty heavy load as It is with
out adding any excess baggage.
Judge Edward Osgood Brown would
do honor to seat on the Fedora
bench.
~eSA
Better elevated service for NORTH
Siders Is needed.
Both as Judge and citizen Johr
r. Caverly is liked and respected b,
everybody that knows him.
No lawyer ia Chicago stands higher
In the estimation of the bench ant
bar than James S. Hopkins.
Albert G. Wheeler stands foremos
among Chicago's leading Hnancierl
and business men.
The earnings OF the Chicago Tele
phone Company increased $1,86O, 009 II
1912. over the earnings for 1911.
And yet the people of Chicago vii
have to pay as high rates as ever OF
five.sixths of the telephones in us
here.
The annual report of the Chicag
: Telephone Company for 1912 disclose,
an increase Of $l,S60.000 In the CON
pany's gross earnings and q gain o
S271,S72 in balance available for div
dends, as compared with 1911. Pres
ident b. Il. Sunny, however, fails t
see in the growth of profits any argu
ment for a reduction In present tele
, phone charges. In his remarks az
companying the figures, Mr.. Sum
said:
I'VE feel that upon the shown
made in the hearing before the con
[ mittee of the City Council ther
should be no reduction in the presen
rates, or If there is that 1t must be
, small one to permit Of the compan
accepting it,"
The surplus for dividends in 191
was equal to 93S per cent on tn
, company's s27,0O0,OOO capital stool
> against S.3S per cent the previous yea
Dividends OF s per cent were paid.
THE increase in the number of tell
phones for the year ending Decembe
|, 81, 1912, was 4S,O74. the largest In an
! year in the history OF the company
Mr.. Sunny said.