The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-03
HOW MANY BELIEVE THIs7

HOW MANY BELIEVE THIs7
Before the Council committee on Tuesday
night Judge Lamb. the president of the Gas
Consumers Trust, is credited with saying
''There was time, year ago, when gas
should have been let into the city at any price.
There was a boom, and if the city had then
had gas the boom would have gone
The boom has passed, and there is no need Of
being in hurry now"
This was urged upon the committee
reason why the proposed changes in the gas
ordinance should not be made There wasno
pretense that the amendments asked for were
not fair and just, or that if made anybody
would be injured by them; but the president
of the Trust said there was no necessity for
them now for the purpose of expediting the
introduction of gas into the city, as 1.-THE
boom had passed, and there is no need of
being in a hurry now" This is the only
thing urged upon the Council against making
the Observation-Disclosures is no hurry"
We want to ask the people of indianapolis
the men of property, the men of enterprise,
the men of business, the men who manufact-
ure, the men who own their homes, and are
interested in the welfare and prosperity OF the
city the householders who have been expect
ing to have the benefit and cleanliness of gas
in their homes-whether they indorse the
statement of Judge Lamb, and are prepared
to go to the length of opposing the amend
ments simply because "there is no hurry
now" the boom having passed.
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of the men who are ready to fall in behind
Judge Lamb and indorse the statement that
the "boom" for Indianapolis has passed, and
there is, therefore, further hurry about the in
PRODUCTION of natural gas. For one. the Journal
believes there is the greatest possible necessity
for hurry-greater than at any other time
infinitely greater than before so prominent
a man the president of the Trust publicly
stated that Indianapolis is beached, and that
it makes no difference when we get gas now.
Cannot anybody see that the necessity is
imperative for the people to rise, as they rose
in the formation of the Trust, and declare
that natural gas shall come in at once, and
that the ''boon" shall not longer and possibly
fatally, be delayed?
Why should the amendments not be 1nade7
Let any man name one sensible, sound, prac-
teal objection to them. What possible OBJ
lection can the Trust have to them? The
Trust has no private capital to care for. The
Trust does not need to earn dollar of profit.
The Trust has the confidence of the people.
The Trust claims to have an illimitable
supply of gas and to be on the
eve of inaugurating comprehensive system of
piping that will embrace every quarter Of the
city. The Trust employed brigade of solic-
itors, and has 'tgobbled up the cream" of six
thousand contracts from persons who will
become its customers SO soon as it has the gas
to sell. The Trust cannot possibly be injured
or hampered interfered with by
the proposed amendments. In what re-
spect can it be hurt or the people
for whom it claims to actR What interest can
the Trust have in keeping gas out of the city
for ono day, or one week, or one month";
These are questions that sensible men are be-
ginning to ask themselves very seriously in
the new condition of affairs. The situation
has resolved itself into blind and unreason-
ing opposition to the amendments, simply
and solely for the purpose of delaying the
introduction of gas on the ground that "there
is no hurry now" How many people in In
dianapolis will indorse this policy, and assist
in tying Grape upon the front and back doors
of the city, over the top of which are to be
written the words of Judge Lamb, as a notice
to all the world" The boom is passed. 90
to the next town"