Show MAINTAIN THE MOLECULAR T the he III HERALD MALD has always taken a pride and interest in the advance 4 ment of any legitimate measure of domestic improvement and home development in this line falls the molecular telephone compa company ny awrich has been operating a cheap I 1 ays F IT y A acm em m of orar commini communication cation for s e everal ai ra months tho the principal claimon claim I 1 in of the molecular letting alone and leaving aside all acal cal differences is tho the fact thai its stock t is owned by ogden city men shy by fellow follow citizens who are of us and with us in a material sense tense whose prosperity means the prosperity of r the town and whose progress indis cates the advancement of the tile cocas com in contra distinction to the molecular do co there is the bell system with the operations or olefa operators tors of which we have not the least cause to trouble or quarrel but there is one fact preeminent an and d paramount above all others the tile molecular makes it its money here and spends its money here the bell makes its money here and sends it abroad beyond our reach beyond any avenue of domestic advantage we do not now propose to investigate digate the scientific clenti fic merits of the two systems this has nothing to do with at issue what weare we are desirous of impressing I 1 the general public with is that they have to grasp one horn born or the other of the dilemma dile nima either to throw money away to bo be gobbled up by the greedy maw of an eastern monopoly mo monster uster or to place it in the hands of their fellow citizens wha whence ence it will circulate through the community animating and en livening the commercial arteries of the community it means simply this shall we patronize an outfit that drain of our hard and hard bard earned cash and empties it into the cof coffers fiers of new york speculators or we sustain an institution every cent of whose proceeds remains in our midst fertilizing the field fields of legitimate enterprise these remarks have been prompted by the fact of a movement on loot foot which while 1 proclaiming to be beneficial to business would if successful result in depreciating the valuable property of many of our best citizens and which would also break down domestic enterprise and home investment we are sorry to learn of the petition circulated among our business people in favor of the bell company because we vre know that it is intended as a part of a freeze out game a freeze out game against people who are of the pillars of the commonwealth we are in favor of homo home industry homo home business homo home enterprise however silvery the bells m may ay ring a |