Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-13
GRAVE QUESTIONS
Appealing to Wheeling Citizens for
Their Solution.
How. Shall theFinanciaI Situation be Bridged
Over and How Shall Work be Pro-
vided for the laboring
Glass.

There are two economical questions now
appealing to the citizens Of Wheeling for
solution. The first is its financial em5arrass'
ment. The second is, how will she provide
Tor her unemployed people. The first is one
of dollars and cents exclusively; but the
second, while it, too, involves dollars and
cents, it likewise, to a very great degree, in
wolves the wants Of a large per cent OF our
working people who are now idle, and are
likely to remain so during the present win
ter.
As to the first question, there is but one
way out of that difficulty now, and that is by
another loan. 1t is true that the people
voted down the last loan ordinance by a de.
cisive vote, but they will not likely do that
sgain, when they are satisfied that it is the
oniy means of escape from reputation and
bankruptcy. The reasons why it was vo,ed
down are twofold the first, that the people
pl~SArpRovED or COUNCILS MANAGEMENT
of the city, and their negative vote was in
tended as a rebuke to Council; the Second
those vino had fought by argument md
then voted against the action OF the new
CITY Boards, thought that the opportunity
had come to get an effectual slap at the
Board of Public Works, and for this reason
only, voted against the loan.
This argument now won't stand the test
Of common sense. 1t is too revolutionary
to be seriously thought of by any one who
has the good of the city at heart.
These boards have a,legal existence both by
State and city statutes, and it is the duty OF
every citizen to recognize and support them
so long as they perform the duties faithfully
for which they were created. The opposition
to the board ofpublic works is more decided
and ~outspoken than it is to the other two; in
fact there is no organized opposition to them
except on political grounds; those who op-
pose them claiming as the grounds of their
opposition that none but Republicans are
employed by the gas board and water board.
The board of pubic works is free from any
partisan. charge. but has to bear the one OF
extravaganza or the useless squandering OF
the city's money.
IN dNSll'E ] " lhio b'NN''
we have no h~eSitency in saying, and the
proofs at hand, that this board has given
more substantial considerations to the peo'
pie of Wheeling fer the money that has
passed through its hands, than either Of the
other boards. 1t has for the first time in
the history OF our city made and given us
well paved streets where ever it has been al
lowed by Council to make these much need
ed improvements. The money in this di
~rection has been well spent. But the i'm
orovement of our streets is but one OF the
benefits we have derived from the board
stree its creation, which in itself is a great
one beyond all controversy. There Is
another one, and those who have been de
| nouncing the board have entirely ignored
either ~purposely or i~gnorantly, and that is
he employment it gave to hundreds OF met
our own cltizens), who, otherwise would
have been street idlers, and in many il
stances benefciaries on the county. So i
| the Board has created q debt for the city tC
| Dav, it has at the same time a clear con
| science in saying that it has given the PEG
pie two considerations, good streets and EN-
| nloyment to her idle laboring men while
| creating this debt. And in this connection
we will 90 a step further and say, that il
view of the present outlook for our workln!
classes, it would be well for the city. if W
had the money, to still let this board con
! tinue its improvements. We need the i'm
proyements, and our working classes
MEET EMPLOYMENT
aud wages to support themselves and FAM
lies through the winter. 1t is evident now
to those who are intimately familiar will
the domestic situation Of our workln{
classes, that many OF them will be compel
cd TO ask aid from the county, unless the.
find employment soon. Already men VIII
never dreamed OF such a thing have aske,
for assistance from this source.
To clinch what we have alone advanced
we assert, that unless the people wisely n
consider .heir verdict on the loan question
e~A Lille bv their votes. when agsi
asked by the City Council, vote the neta.ee
relief to the City, the City will be helpless
and at the mercy Gifts creditors. Laborin
men who are benefited by the City, certain
IL will not vote against their own interest
by voting against this loan, when the hrg
tax payers and property owners ask that I'd
loan be ratified BY the people. IT anyoD
would have grounds for objection, thos
who pay the most taxes would seem to ;
the ones. and not those who pay but sma
taxes are generally the recipients Of th
money paid out by the City through he
;Terent Boards.
Tss CITY MUST AVE MONEY
N maintain her city government, to sustai
her credit, meet her daily wants, and tn
! can only be procured BY another loan.
The men OF means and the laboring me
~, IS CITY are all alike, mutually i~ntereste
7g immediate aid to the city. Ca
m W., " money now at ~ per cen? v
tb;nI not Say ) per cent, and then ban
ers viii talk I, yo2. p
Edmund F. Boz. King and c. Aenkeniiit
state that indigestion 49, nm.
disease, but gu~srrante. ae;s Dyp
Tablets to cure all forms,"
Advice to Mothers.
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