The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-28

sity.
j. r. Sale: 1 think the city used
bad judgment in not accepting the
gas company's proposition. We need
water works.
G.. S. Emerson: Bonds, when voted,
have to be paid by taxation. have
all want to pay on now.
Harry Mcneil LaHarpe aud Hum
boldt are snxiously Warrington lola to
vote bonds that they may use 1t
against us. 1t will be q bad move.
J. NJ. williamson: We have q gas
plant and won't mortgage my
property to buy somthing we already
have.
John Ireland: shall never vote for
bonds for anything but public Inn
prov ements; water works or public
buildings.
L. Hobart: City ownership does
not promise cheaper fuel. II fuel is
cheapened the claim that the bonds
will be paid out of the plants ear
nings falls.
G. NJ. Nelson: For the good of the
city ri vote against the bonds. We
have no grievance; gas is cheap and
the service is good, am disinterest-
ed beyond the fact of securing the
greatest good to the city.
J. ". Coutant: Every body knows
that want to see the bonds defeated.
A. w. Rowland: To vote bonds is
the worst thing the city could do, in
this instance.
G. II. DeCiute: | most certainly
agree with Mr.. Rowland
A. l.. Taylor Let well enough
alone. If the city buys the gas plant
it will be exempt from taxation and
the people will have to make up the
deficiency.
I'D. Curtis: City ownership will go
against our town. Bonds are bad.
4. u. Brigham: 1 am against the
bonds. | always have been.
Gins Krdnnich; If we can keep gas
at prices we are now paying / never
will vote for bonds.
VIM. Yeager Ii we can have gas at
present prices for the next ten years
| am opposed to city ownership.
j. S. McLain: City ownership will
lessen taxes in the near future.
Dr. Pepper Where you find cities
owning public utilities you find them
in the main, free from debt.
S. W. Jennings: We have testimony
all over this country that municipal
ownership is the thing. The gas COM
pany is making 40 per cent.
j. CuIbertson: am for the bonds
all the time. Thega plant will pay
for the water works.
c. W. McNieE 1 am teetotslly and
positively opposed to any bond bust
ness for gas, as proposed.
Z. B Shannon l am decidedly
opposed to public ownership.
II. Sleeper It's cost too much to talk.
c. h. Spencer There are things
that we need worse than the gas
plant.
c. g. MuH My opinion is that this
nor no other city should own the gas
plant.
Marsh Hart; There is nothing
palmer on earth to me than that the
city ought to own the gas plant.
DR.. Ch8stain If bonds are voted
the tax payers will be held for their
payment.
IL. u. Stevenson If the city votes
$4,000 in bonds they'll have to be
paid by taxation. No man ever made
IA debt he didn't have to pay if he was
worth 1t. The human tendency IL to
spend money when we have it; this
! tendency WOULD prevail In municipal
management of the funds of the gas
plant with the result that the tax.
payers would have to pay the bonds.
Col Whitaker wouldn't vote
bonds for anything ON earth but a
school house.
Neis Acres There is every reason
in the world why the city should own
the gas plant and not reason ON
earth why it shouldn't.
r. w. Bartels: Public ownershlsp
breeds more or less speculation in
office 1t becomes the issue in every
municipal campaign, with the result
that officers lose sight of the welfare
of the city. We have a gas plant
with cheap fuel. If we must have
bonds let them be for water works.
Oscar FOust; Am opposed to muni-
cipal ownership of the gas plant
believing 1t to be injurious to the pro-