The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-24
A Citizens and Gas Consumers
Views ON Furnish hing the POstOfice
WITH Gas era, uitOusly.
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Views ON Furnishing the PostoHfce
WITH Gas era, uitously. .-s
Editors OF the Register.
By reading an article on your local
Gage in Saturday mornings issue en-.
titled "The Pestoffice e-About Cas-"
am, as q deeply interested party, CON-
PEELED to ask, when, oh, when will many
people in our city understand that the
tax. payers and gas consumers are two
distinct classes of our citizens, as far as
the respective receipts from each source
are concerHed Already, by improper
and uniustiasble acts Of our City Coun-
ell. has the burden Of expense been
heaped upon this unfortunate class of the
community. Why it is so. only He who
knows all things can devine.
1t may be that the accomplishing ma
ture, and the ability to stand it, are the
potent causes Tor the imposition. They
are first compelled to light the streets, city
building. &c &c. grstuitously, pay of
the debt contracted for the purpose of
purchasing the works, in an unusually
short space of time, make extensions To
the gas mains, build gas holders at great
expense; and then to cap the climax, are
dictatorially asked why have the trus-
tees, who through the city represent the
consumers, delay ed in rushing to the assist
ance O: the United States, and rendering
the use OF other peoples property for the
convenience of the whole city? Uncle
Sam is not so ready in helping private
citizens, or even cities out of their finan-
cial troubles or any other kind Of
difficulty that l know of, and why the
consumers should so summarily rush to
the assistance OF the postoffice authori-
ties with tender of their property
because through some defect in the gen.
eral appropriation, or extravagance or
corruption of government officials, or
perhaps, for ough: that Is known, it may
be some election dodge, or grand scheme
to hide from tho public gaze the present
terrible exposures going on at Washing
ton, and thus produce in the eyes of the
public some counter sympathy-ls beyond
our ken. If Postmaster Rawlings docs
not want to take the responsibility OF au-
thorizing the gas trustees to furnish light,
which they will willingly do if he will
promise that the government will pay
for it out of the future appropriations,
let a petition be presented to council,
signed by the tax payers requesting that
the city authorize that the postotfice be
furnished with gas ana that it will pay
into the treasury ofthe gas consumers the
cost thereof. That is, if our community
think the exigenies of the case require it,
which is very doubtful. By this method,
and this only, can the gas consumer re-
ceive justice. Your paper, has in the
past, elucidated ehectually the reasons
why the city or other institutions should
not raise q revenue for general purposes
from this sources, and l have no
doubt you think so still. l therefore
trust you will give the undersigned the
privilege of expressing, through your
columns, the views o! large class OF our
city's heaviest ta1-pay ers, as well as gas
cor sumers.
"Le. justice be done, though the
heavens fall" A READER.
Wheeling april 22d, 1876