The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-03-10
oths Citizens Of Logan, Too.

. communication in last week
sublican Gazette, signed "Citi-
and addressed to the citizen
logan. We have not been re
sted by the author nor the GA
to reproduce the article, bu
the SENTINEL is a newspaper
a for free discussion upon al
I current topics, and inasmuel
Everybody reads the SENTINEL
give the Gas Company's argu
pt against the proposed plan OF
city Lighting itself.
rhe article from "Citizen" need.
hrgament to refute it, as it re,
p itself, We shall only refer
few statements that are moi
city accurate, and are in kind
isleading."
st. There is nothing in this at
1t is an assumption that for
sown to light itself is bad
pic policy, unfair and dishon-
We viii s'take our pencil
figure. if you give US the books
the company. We cannot "fig.
unless we are given the sum.
~ do you not give US the fig
8. Data and pencils are at your
ID, as you farther on say, access
the company's books show you
business results.
!. The statements in this para
tpbs are not exactly as casual
bervation shows us. In the town
Jackson; the Secretary of the
.ht Trustees informs us that the
Iiness is so profitable that the
hting of the city will soon cost
hing. That politics do not en-
into the management, but a
srd of Trustees Is appointed,
3 give bond and are held for
hages through extravaganza or
Eigence, Wellston an adjoin-
town will issue bonds and es-
|lsh an Electric Light Plant.
bllston is only ten miles from
'kson, and can see every night
Illumination even of the clouds
'r her sister city, and learn any
every day.. if the bonding of
ksoa is bad policy, is dishonest,
unfair.
!. This is a scare crow. There
,ot nearly SO many deaths from
,tric lights, as from steam pow
or oil lamps. The conhagra-
i in New Orleans was not the
ldredth fraction as disastrous as
burning of Chicago from the
lamp kicked over by Mrs. |
ry's COW. i
/. This principle has no refer
e we presume to Col. Rempel's
pose in establishing his Ohio
nocrat with the openly avowed
pose of breaking up the SENr1-
sstearing down and rendering
'roftahle &C." The SENTINEL
legitimate business and sur
IS and Hourishes. Can not the
Co. meet and sustain itself
inst legitimate competition.
re is no purpose to tear it
n. There is purpose to get
er: lights. That's all there's
lis.
he statement that the company
'sted its money to save the en-
rise, and that Col. Rempel was
annointed and appointed Moses
lad us and keep us out of dark
, giving us clouds by day and
It and pillars of fire by night
day, verify, it is a wild, weird
yination. It's a terrible thought
link what would we have done
hadn't been for Moses Rem
and as it is now, with no
ua to succeed.
This is taxes. How much
e Gas company listed at. We
! tell, but you know. Tell
'itizens of Logan. Col. Rempel 7
81, 900 in taxes. We are glad =
IS SO much property. That is q
aterial. But how much does .
" of taxes on the Gas plant. .
venture that of the tax payers =,
ioning the Council for bonding h
town, tax payers represent
o per cent of the taxable bust
enterprises of the city, that E
tenths of the. petitioners pay ~
tax for lighting the town :.
does Col. Rempel, or the Gas .,
any for that matter. Take ~
pencil and figure it out. 1t o,
'e key perhaps to the sum q
'ropose. A
This is only statement of
of the situation, r
accepted for what 1t is worth. T
2empel should be paid a COM So
ficn. That the stockholders al
IT get any dividends is due 70
likely to the fact that a ma
of the stock is covered by W
and the bonds have been br