Show a j i telephones ejk rt the telephone has now become jilt ill a 4 an absolute oble necess necessity iq in V jevery vt ry city cand and i town 0 wn which has any to nineteenth century progress and which desires to keep abreast t of the innee unfortunates unfortunately ylo however wever 1 I the tife conducting of telephone ex cb cli angea anges has bus fallen into the hands of ofa a monster monopoly which a far has frozen out every opponent a andi ud the people are almost forced to su support p poi i an outside organization and contribute their dollars to a corn com iffa ij fa which which has i it its headquarters i rt in in the city of baked beans and much 14 learning riding albort A short time ago a number of f ogdene representative business busi nees ate men determined fete ri I 1 ined to organize into a telephone company and place in operation aeration a telephone each exchange which should at the same time be c a 19 tit ution ad furnish to td the ibe public a cheap telephone service the preliminaries were completed ard an exchange was opened the public responded enthusiastically 0 and ahe stole molecular c ular telephone e ex x i change so soon as ingot it got into good working wiking order gave universal satisfaction the success however wad was short rt lived for here comes the bell telephone company and requires es Us its young oung yet vigorous ious adversary to desist from transmitting the grocery orders and the social conversa con verea i tion of the public over its wires 4 j the bell company had been victorious 4 rious in in a protracted legal tussle in thi East and by the deci decision 0 f the court all other telephone ex changes were at the mercy merey odthe of the Bell Company inmany but light now appears in in the y east hi and d the prospects ar are that tbt the back aik of the telephone mono monopoly ol 01 y 4 c wilf ilbe be terribly strained rained tt if indeed kitis its not wholly broken the gov ern ment now haa has brought suit in the Yel federal leril court at boston boiton to annul the pa patent 1 tent granted the bell tele phone in 1876 boston 1 is the the great monopoly but the rhe government hesitated about bring bringing huf suit there because of th the open chang that telephone stock I 1 i was so well and judiciously distri in about the hub that a fair air ectrial ee trial would beba bea difficult matter to obtain lists of golde q fin the betl bill company ivere were published putt shed in the new Yoro York Herald feIa on the te iest st of last december which were ob rainea from th the ilist list of sn ora in the bell telephone cc company mp mpr o 0 isa 4 1881 88 1 fahd and 1882 1862 filed nn ith t 4 hee cre tary 0 of th the atte state of and certified by wiiliam 7 driver treasurer Ato lecan acan bell Telephone boit 1 corn M j pany yb abis is showed that brothers sitters sisters and cousins of judge or gray owned 1083 chares shares in 1881 and 1748 shares in in 1882 that the fi ither brother broiler and nephews of judge lowell towell either owned or were trusi or agents for 1615 shares in n 1881 and iud 1746 J 1882 these two wre were united states judges and this information brought out during the pan Pa eleo j atric ic nyi when tho government govert was about in instituting juit ul to set aside the bell patent ilie the obstacles have now been removed by the tho exposure and the government hag hm not much to fear fromi from i fl legal tussle with the bellcock Bell Coca pany in boston there are aleo also two sr or more new and important factors 8 wh ich have come in in the case and which 1 prove rova formidable bell 6 company mcany one of these is the al 4 legation th tha tbell violated the pat ent n tl lawa banot by afi ling I 1 a model abi 11 art on if athe gov government establishes this fact the patent will have to be set aside it e h AS been so charged barged ir all along art that t S kg pant was seca rd through rati r an I 1 t y jaw yf ja is naw now clafred clai medhat if beall should produce his eis original boelt would at be found to be a copy in all essential features bf oth er leli in in existence long before 1876 and thus prove that bells was was not noi an adill edgr not to a patent the government further intends to 66 prove alove that in ilg 1868 9 or r likht Y e i fars before bell se cured hil patent pa patent teniNo no was wa granted to royal E house e fop an electro phonetic jc receiver liver as he be cala calw called it ii I 1 it itis ie really a tele phone and the scientific american says thai that in many respects nt it resembled bells bills instrument of df the 1876 ifill ii s described as being far fir superior to the ibe pell bell telephone and aa fio confident amanul are a num i her 0 of capita capitalist liIA that the bell company compan will bill 6 be powerless to 1 interfere with them thai that they have already formed a company 1 aej I 1 0 A manufacture in brasure bra fure and sale of these telephones bone w another great aid to the doar government n will I 1 bd ed the fact that the american cushman telephone company Compa has begun the ture ure and bale of df telephones and rendering 0 telephone service ice ih in hicaro at far less rates than the bell bel 1 company this setting forth the fac fact that the american fia n 1 bolda boldly ditcu disputes tee tie the claim of any and ind all persons to be the first inventor 1 0 of aa an operative electric speaking peaking telephone whose invention does not anili antedate date 1851 this of course include includes the claims of A 61 0 bell under whose patents the american bell telephone company has as asi fumed that it has and exclusive right to furnish telephone service service to the public and for which service the public have bee been n charged many million dollars in excess of a fair compensation for the se service bryice f furnished r dr cui cheh jsn 1 wivi wyima I 1 le graph lines 01 m 4 a 6 1 di Y N s telephone t e ae at aracne wis Wi saud and the instrument ment was in practical use ia in that city in 1851 23 4 but was considered e I 1 tb abdi a would o 0 i y U go c gnip kang inal use if in 1881 it is claimed that the bell wi cowkey Sered Lh kanj made A a cont cushman for 15 threll e years by which he was paid a con eid sid erable s um pa abe contract Fon contract trAct a and nd payments I 1 tits having th the e effect of df keeping him quiet 0 concern t ing mg his invention W 1 when at the cont ra qt was vas madam it waa was not thought cushman cushma could live for three years but he baa has and isnow is koiv now the inan manager siek of the company using his telephones at the end of three bearo year an effort secure another contract with him but he refused reveral several months ago a the BIL colb company bough 4 guiti puit against ama i pany mil M il I 1 in 01 ois court to which the latter company set up thu defense of the prior i discovery disco and use of the telephone houe I 1 in a circular thi company dares the 66 bell vell company company 6 to ask aek for an in junction juntti ion and declares de clarea that it is id afraid to because it fears the result oia t 4 refusal aull and declaration decla at ay iy by a c coar our all vtha ei claim alln O 0 ot th bell compa company ny under the bell parentis pa patent is not well founded with this array of facts it ie is be successful in upsetting the bell put 0 ent and an d the will thus re ava ceilee ate V C active compe V alon ion the people want a cheaper telephone vo ne service and it is sincerely hoped that the monopoly which tol to lenon eption oyide IN 0 ernide ry ide throng throughout h out be broken 1 1 i |