The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-12
Now Is the Time TO Speak Out
I'm Meetin'.

Prof. White rises to explain that
Morgantown can have water works
whenever she really wants them.
In other words, a number of Pitts
burgh capitalists stand ready to
take the bonds of our home company
to a sufficient amount to put in the
entire plant at once, or, as soon as
the weather will permit.
The only condition made by these
gentlemen is that the town will
make good its subscription to the
stock, and that reasonable num-
Der of free-holders will express a
willingness to take the water when
the works are completed.
There is surely nothing unfair,
unreasonable, or unexpected in this
condition. 1t is nothing more than
the home company wants in under
taking the work.
The home company asked the
town for it's aid to the extent of
$4,000, and the town, by an over
whelming majority, granted it. And
in so doing the people indicated in
the most significant and substantial
manner their desire to have the
water-They indicated that the ma
jority of the free holders would be
come willing patrons of the works.
We presume that the Town Coun-
Gil stand ready to execute the will
of the people thus expressed at the
polls. They have, by the terms of
the subscription, plenary power to
make such a business arrangement
with the company on payment of
the subscription, and as Il condition
to its payment, as will secure to the
town all the benefits to which the
town is entitled under the terms of
the subscription. We believe there
was no limit as to the time when
this subscription might be claimed
by the company, except that the
bonds representing the subscription
should be payable in certain num-
Der of years.
The towns subscription, of course,
will be made to the home company
and on the conditions that were pre-
scribed. Whatever arrangements
are made by the home company
thereafter with capitalists, is the
company's own affair. The town
will look to the company only for
fulfillment of the conditions to the
town.
A limit was made in the charter
of privileges granted to the company
by the town, as to when the work |
should be begun, and that limit has
expired. But we presume the Town
Council will be ready to grant a re-
newal of the charter on the same
terms as the old, or with only such
notifications as circumstances may
make reasonable and right
Now, what we want on the part of
our people is to have some positive
expression in favor of the works.
There is no question but that our
people want the works, but the men
who put their money into the enter
prise expect, and are entitled to
some individual expressions by
which to test the prospects of the
enterprise in advance.
1t is doubtless best to obtain this
information by canvass of the
town, but if citizens who are willing to
take water on fair terms if the works
are built, will send us their names,
we will publish in the New DoMIN-
ION, from week to week list which
will indicate to the company the
feeling of our citizens on this sub
ject.
Let every citizen who has an in
terest in the town feel personal OBJ
legation to move in this matter. If
there is one thing above another
from which the reputation and wei
fare of this town is now suffering it
is the character of it's water; and
there is no one thing from which it
will derive more general profit and
satisfaction than water works.
WE will send the New DOMINION
and Wheeling Weekly Register one
year for $3.50 to parties who send
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