Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-20

witnesses fees and costs third or more
OF the principal, and then probably be
compelled to pay it.
What is lost by refusing to pay 1t?
Everything. The credit of the city and
county, because men of means who have
in good faith put their hundreds OF
thousands into the work, believing that
they had more than performed their
share Of the agreement, will regard the
action Of the county as simply repudi-
alton. Can these men, or others,
in the light of such policy,
be induced to expend millions
in developing this city and its adjacent
territory. Can we go among the capt.
talistS of the East and ask them to put
their money in a road TO Connellsville,
without which, the Terminal system
will be in constant dread of being COB
bled up by either Of the trunk lines
entering the city and its usefulness vir-
tually destroyed?
Just here is a good place to call at
tention to the SIpreme necessity OF
road to Connellsville to preserve this
city from being nonentity in the fu-
ture. All railroads now building and
projected in the vast coal and timber re-
glous Of this State have been planned
and surveyed with Pittsburg as the OBJ
jective point. A road from Wheeling
/ 70 COnuellsvills necessarily cuts
the Pittsburg extension in two
and makes Wheeling the closer
point TO the West and Northwest.
But shat is not all. By the construc-
tiop OF this road what is done for our
manufacturers aud wholesale mer-
chants? Besides cheaper coke rates for
our furnaces, a country is opened up to
Wheeling trade equal, If not superior
to any which she now has. The line
will be shorter to the interior OF the
State and the enterprising merchants OF
Main street will occupy it. In fact this
road will be probably Of greater benefit
in the aggregate to the merchants in ex-
tending their trade than to the manu-
facturers, because the merchants are
many and the manufacturers few, COM
paratiyely.
But there is still another consider
alton: Does this city not want a through
trunk line leading from somewhere to
somewhere, which makes Wheeling a
direct important point Of its system?
Does she not want competition with the
other trunk lines that pass her by to
the north and south and connect her 10
their systems by switches and trans
fers? Is the town going to risk one Of
the best opportunities she ever had to
make a great stride forward that will
put her on such a basis wherein she
must grow and prosper from within her
self, aud the whims Of railroad mag
mates cannot stop or retard her?
These are important questions for the
Board OF Commissioners to consider in
determining their position on this vital
matter.
But aside from all the considerations
enumerated above, what is the plain
duty Of the Board. 1t is to obey the
wishes Of the taxpayers who sent them
there to represent them. What is their
wish? The petition Of over two-thirds
of the wealth Of the county recently sent
them is one forcible illustration of what
IS wanted; the almost unanimous voice
Of the community in favor Of paying the
money is another.
The Board of Commissioners are all
sensible and intelligent men; we believe
they have the interests Of the COM
munity at heart. They have a fair
knowledge Of business methods
and how to treat business
men in business way. We
feel assured that they would not care
to take mean advantage, through
technicality, Of men who have more
than doubly fulfilled their agreement,
and If treated properly will continue as
they have begun, and yet the spectacle
is witnessed by this community of this
Board Of Commissioners engaging law
yers to decide for them what is patent
TO nearly every thinking man in the
community. We believe the specious
arguments Of active rival interests, and
whose interests OF necessity run
counter to the city's, who persist in
remaining iu the backgrounds are mainly
responsible for the division Of senti-
ment in the Board. Both day and night
they have warily and energetically
trumped up unworthy reasons why the
remaining 100000 should not be paid,
and which have had their influences
upon some of the members.
Gentlemen, do not let this farce go
farther. Meet promptly and give the
Company their money and receive the
commentator from your constituency
Of q duty well performed. The law
yers may have found legal OBJ
stacle in the shape Of technicality
which will cause adverse opinions, but
opinions based upon techRicality
should not swerve you from your sense
Of right. Although q Quibble Of the
I ,,,,a tho coDntv An Unfair adj