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Show HIGH PRiCE OF THE TELEPHONE The Chamber of Commerce commit tee have Issued tho following statement: state-ment: Business men, professional men. ev-ory ev-ory man who uses a phone, look up and read. Did you over think of the double price you are paying for your phono? It not, think now FirBt, please permit an Illustration. Should there be twenty-five railroads running In and out of our beautiful city, it would cost ou only ouo fare to ride to and from your neighboring town, though twenty-five roads may Btretch between the two places How-over, How-over, If each of you were compelled to pay for twenty five tickets, each and qvery time you rode between the two placos, there would be something doing, don't you think? Again, should there bo twentj-flve electric light plants in Ogden, oach and evory one fully up-to-date, with plouty of power, would you, or any one of you In residence, store or offices, of-fices, have any need to connect up with more than one of thcBe? Now then, If the law offices or power plants would compel you to pay for each of these twenty-five electric light plants put In your place, there would be something doing, don't you think? Now to the phone Should thero bo tttenty-fle different telephone companies com-panies In Ogden, Is there a business house or a professional man that would not be compelled, In order to hold his trade, to pay for each of these twenty-five phones to set on bla desk? The difference then between a light and a phone Is that you only have to pay for ouo set of lights In order to hr.vo jour place well lighted, and oach and every company would help In Uues and employment city and county allko, the same with the railroad and st-eet car system, you could only rldo on one car at a tlmo and therefore there-fore you would only pay for one fare Hew different with tho bualness man and his phones; only one-iwenty-flfth 1 of tho trade would' he get, if but one oi. the 25 phonos were on Ills desk. So, my fellow citizens, you sec two phones mean two prices for tho thing that one phone could do, so twenty-fivo twenty-fivo phones mean twcnty-flve prices and one" sen lee The same In the residence; two phonos riiean Cwo prices, pric-es, and one jihone means half service. Remedy. A phone tbat everybody owns, In-sthlled In-sthlled by the city and county, or by tho state, J. J, BRUMMITT, v- ' ' O. A. PARMLEY, Tr O. A. KENNEDY, '. HYRUM BELNAP. C M, CLAY. |
