Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-24
COUNCILS DUTY.

Council made mistake last night III
not taking steps to send a committee
TO Charleston to look after the city's
in ;erests, especially in regard to
the electric light question. After the
. lengthy and conclusive evidence that has
been presented there could be no reason
able alternative beyond appointing a
committee TO go TO Charleston at
I the next session of the Legislature TO
see that the proposed bill authorizing
the city TO manufacture and sell cleo
/ tricity as il now does gas, was not de-
l feated for want Of proper advocacy.
Council may depend upon it that the in
tereSted opponents of the proposed plan
will have strong lobby to work against
the measure. Good, strong men, not
necessarily members of Council, should
be selected to argue the question, II
necessary, before the Legislature. The
I lack of this precauti0n defeated the
| measure Il lut AtSl SNSNAOh- "hiNA -"
one reason why Wheeling is now away
behind the times in the matter of light
ing.
1t has been proven beyond question
I that electricity is the cheaper and bet
ter light, and that the city can make 1t
and sell it much cheaper than it can
/ be bought from private cor
poration. The state of the city'S
finances has nothing TO do with the
matter-be the balance long or short,
for il is question of economy solely.
should the aforesaid statement show
that the city'S eNcheQuer Is short, so
much the more reason for adopting the
cheaper as well as better system Of
lighting. Should it show fat balance,
50 much the bettcr.
Council has no time to waste if The
proposed bill is TO be put through at the
coming session Of the Legislature. 1t
has but one more session TO hold, and,
If it does not take decisive action then,
the matter must go over TO the succeed
ing Council, which, though it be faVora-
BILE 20 the proposition, may not have
time TO dispose of it in time for action
by the Legislature at its coming session,
an which case it must 20 over for an
other TWO years, during which time
Wheeling must grope along after
night-fall in the dark, and bear the
maledictious of visitors unfortunate
enough to arrive between sunset and
sunrise.
The present Council has done well by
the city, aud performed its duties faith
fully. 1t should not 90 out leaving
the most important thing it had to do
undone
Sugar four cents a pound less than it was
four months ago, by reason OF the Mchin-
lev bill
Tin plate. how the Democratic liars
howled about the rise in tin plate is at
ltd~N a MNAANA AHNAA va AAAN bNN AsiAA ~ w.
before the election Bring on your dirty
lies You hoodwinked the people by the
most brazen and unparalleled campaign OF
falsehOOd Now sustain yourself, or else
bring yourselves up 10 the scratch and
ease your conscience by conicSsing your
sins
Oh the utterly holy holiness of Billy
Wilson, What would we not give If he
would come back here and repeat his lies
made in his speech here Saturday night he
fore the election, Great and good man
He ought to take dose of phySic and work
out some of the miserable demagoGuery out
of MS system Phdippi Republican.
The loug-earcd gentleman who edits
our contemporary is either not in the
confidence of Major WILLIAM MCKIN-
LEY anent the moduS operandi Of a pro-
tectiye tariff. or, has got hold of last
years market report, and on it pre-
dictcd the above elegant and digniied
remarks. Sugar has not dropped "by
reason of the Mckinley bill" nor for
any other reason. The Mckinley bill
does not lower the tax on the sugar we
use on our tables and we have no idea
that the Sugar Trust will lower the
price for sweet charity'S sake. Tin
plate instead of being "A dollarlowcr on
the box, " has been raised in price by
the Welsh manufacturers ia anticipa-
ton of the increased duty, which goes
into effect next July: and the conSe-
quence is that employees in some can
ming factories have had their wages re-
duecd.