The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-03-04

about reached the limit.
OF course the insinuation that Fred
Heilman's property is not worth the
price he asks for it is powerful ar
gument in favor Of city ownership.
But no viewer much or little it may be
worth Fred seems to be able to hold
it i'm his own name.
Mr.. Acers alluded to Kansas
law as "old and out of date" because
it was passed ten years ago, although
it has never been repealed either di-
rectly or by implication. Perhaps
Mr.. Acers' indifference to the Ten
Commandments is due to the fact
that they are "old and out Of date"
81 was president of the board of
trustees of our city gas plant for sew
eral years." remarked Mr.. J. b. Han
key, of Bowlingreen, o., in Mr.. Hen
derson's office this morning, "and my
advice is to let private parties handle
the gas business. Our town paid
$40, 900 for Il gas plant, ran it at IA loss
for four or five years and sold it for
$4,000"
Among the first gu estions asked by
any conservative business man when
he comes TO lola to locate is: What
do you have to pay for gas and what
is the bonded Indebtedness of your
city? When informed the price OF
gas and that the price is to remain
the same for years to come he is sat
isied, but when told of even our
present debt he stops and thinks a
little.
1--WE all went down i'm our peck
cts" said Mr.. Acers, "and paid foI
this factory WE'LL Since Mr.. Acers
invites the facts here they are; The
factory well and pipe line cost little
above $1,000. OF this sum the whole
amount contributed by all of those
who signed the bond petition was
Seven Dollars and twenty cents ! And
of this 81 20 Mr.. Acers personally con-
tributed nothing, That is the extent
to which "wen went down in our
pockets to pay for the factory well.
And now il is reported that repre-
sentatives of both the ice plant and
the glass plant were at the meeting
Thursday night and arose in their
places and stated that both of these
enterprises were coming. AS mat
Of fact no such representatives were
the REGISTER announced several
days ago that it would certainly locate
here; and it is able to come here solely
because the greedy Gas Company
made it Il merely nominal rate foI
gas. AS for the glass plant, Mr.
Beck received letter yesterday
from sthe gentlemen who were to
start it saying they We're unable &c
make satisfactory freight rates fol-
lola and would therefore be Obliged
to locate their plant i'm Indiana. We
are sorry to make this announcement
but it is fact.
THE meanest thing that has yet
been done in this campaign was the
foul attack made by n. f. Acers last
Thursday night upon the char
acter and credit of Mr.
James Townsend. Because Mr.
Townsend ventured to express
the opinion that it would he mis-
take for lola to vote gas bonds, Mr.
Acers declares i'm II public
speech not only that Mr.. Townsend /,
II bankrupt and "can't buy any
thing" but thathe is II craven whC
goes around talking against the
bonds because the bank which holds
his mortgage orders him to do so
Could there be anything more meal
and contemplate? Does Mr., Acer
wish to invite that kind of cam
paign? Does he wish to provoke
comparison of the business ability o
those who oppose the bonds with tina
of the leaders OF the bond movement
as Indicated by their financial stand
ing? Would he think it fair and de
cent campaigning to have his owl
business record paraded before the
public? Would he even wish to hav,
the question asked how it happens
that man who is able, with sucl
"a blare of trumpets, to build IA bricl
business block is not able, and has no
been for two years, to pay little ad
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