The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-06-06
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WE very heartily second, in the main,
the observations of our Market street CO.
temporary touching the price Of gas to be
charged by the city. We cannot say, how
ever, ms the Register does, that we would
as lief paya given price to the old COM
pany MS to the city; because If we pay u
profit to the city it is to be pre-
sumed that it will to some extent relieve
us from taxation But we fully agree that
it would be both impOltic and unjust for
the city to use the gas works as a machine
10 raise revenue for tho general purposes
Of the city treasury, The price OF gas
ought to be lowered to figure
where the receipts will pay run
ming expenses, the 10 per cent in.
terest and sinking fund, and provide
fund sufficient for repairs and necessary
extensions. But not ono dollar produced
by the sale of gas ought ever to go into
the general treasury OF the city. That
would be imposing tax for revenue; and
il needs no argument or illustration to
show that 1t would be tax very un-
equally and therefore very unlustly laid
The revenue powers Of the city are pro-
vidcd Tor elsewhere. When the charter
Of the Gas COmpony provided for its own
transfer to the city, It never contemplated
that 1t should be converted into an instrll'
ment for raising revenue. The franchises
conferred by it are to be vested In the
city "for the common benefit OI the in.
habitants thereof They do not derive
common benefit II n man can only use
gas by paying tax for the privilege in
addition TO paying for the gas. To give
the people of the city the common benefit
of these gas franchises vested in them by
this charter, there must be no charge be-
yond the cost Whatever profit might be
charged must bc left, where 1t belongs
under the charter, IN the pockets of the
o,,i,ors. yhi,o FIN roveDucs or ,hc cllv
are raised as the City Charter and the
State Constitution provide, by general
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