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Show TELEPHONE IDEAS As Set Forth ly a Prominent Business man who Favors i Granting a Franchise. f Tho matter of the city council granting a franchise to tho new telephone tele-phone company now asking for it should bo a matter of considerable interest in-terest to every citizen of Logan, and in fact the matter is already being discussed pro and con. It is no moro than right that the general public should understand the views of those men who are interested in the movement move-ment and the reasons offered by men .who are against granting the pro-r'f pro-r'f posed franchise. The pcopte should " bo thoroughly informed as to tho merits mer-its and demerits of tho proposition, and providing the matter is not settled set-tled at tho meeting tomorrow evening, even-ing, The Republican will go into the matter as exhaustively as possible, and the columns of the paper will also be open to a free discussion of the question. Below will bo found an article ar-ticle from a prominent business man who is in favor of the proposition. We have not had timo to investigate the matter and merely offer the argument without comment. He says: "Wo woul kindly ask our City Fathers Fath-ers what has bcciuic of tho application applica-tion of tho Utah Ilome Telephone Company for a franchiso to install a telephone exchange in this city. "Wc believe that the granting of this franchiso will be of great benefit to the community, as the new company offers better service for one-half the price now charged by the old company for the wretched service they are now giving us. The Bell Company has promised us tho very best service possible to be given, but no improvement is noticeable notice-able so far as our observation goes, and we do not believe there will be any until competition compels them to furnish it. It will cost the new company at 4east ten thousand dollars to install Its 'system in this city. A large portion of this amount will be spent for labor, I etc., and will find its way into every avenue of trade. Tho taxable value of property will bo increased to tho extent ex-tent of tho cost of the plant, and forever for-ever be a revenue to tho city. Employment Em-ployment will also bo given to our citizens. Besides this, the city will be allowed the f reo use of ten telephones if they require that many, during tho life of tho franchise, one per cent, of gross receipts annually, and the free use of their poles to string city wires on. These induccmcntsshouldnot bo ignored. ig-nored. Besides we cannot afford to keep out legitimate competition that is liable to hold in check the rapacity of monopoly and be of benefit to the people. There should be competition in every public utility. Otherwise we will bo compelled to accept the poorest poor-est servlco and highest prices. A monopoly may demand. By all means grant the franchiso. Myran Httes. Sleighing never was better in the history of our town than at present. The out-look for water next year is good and irrigated farms will not i suffer for moisture. 1 Mr. Wlllard Ilanson, the New York Life hustler, visited our town last week, and he did some business too. There has been considerable sickness sick-ness in our town, principally small babies, but at present tho health of the people Is generally good. I Sunday evening a crowd of young- i sters drove up Main street in a bob- 1 sled and at the end of tho street endeavored to "cut a shine." Tho result was that tho sled over-turned, left the box on top of all but two of tho occupants whllo tho team galloped away and tried to climb a shade tree near tho post office. The sled stopped 'i hero and the horses are still going. Four of tho boys aro under arrest. H It is to bo hoped this will bo a lesson to many others who aro also trying to "cut shines." |