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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1906)
THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1006. B orn't Vote a ETrancIhiise Worth a Million Dollars to Heimrip tine G&ainisas City Brewer, for Notlhin v A. o None of the promoters deny that this franchise is a wide open proposition to put money in their pockets, but try to get you to over look that fact by making misleading statements about the Nebraska Telephone Company. Vote No The promoters say you will get business telephones at $1 per month and residence telephones at 50c per month, but the franchise don't say so. It says you MAY, not that you SHALL. r" v'.': .y. VoteNo The franchise gives unlimited use of the boulevards and parks. The right to string open wires across any street or boulevard in our city. The right to build subways for rent as well as for their own use. Vp How can anybody justify such a wholesale gift of the people's rights to a gang of franchise grabbers? Vote No Where does this gang of promoters expect to get back the money they have spent and are spending except from our citizens. Vote No Did any promoter ever give the citizens of Omaha anything that they did'nt charge several prices 'for? Vote No Is Heim, the millionaire brewer, going to spend his money on you or make another million at your expense? Vote No Ask yourself a few questions, then you will go to the polls and vo I NO