Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-30

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Wheeling, M. va, May ~, 1899.
10 the Editor Of the Register.
Sir: Please publish the enclosed from
the Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kansas,
and oblige a subscriber to your paper.
1t may be read by His Honor the
Mayor and members of the city Coun-
Gil, and you can't tell what good it may
do. x. K. x.
THE MAYORS SAY.
1T is undemocratic, as well as un-
scientific, to place our officials in such
temptation as the officials in Chicago
have been placed. Absolute municipal
ownership and operation of street rail-
way lines. and all other public vehi-
cles, is the one. only and final cure.
The briber will then be without a vic
tim to prey upon S. M. JONES,
Mayor of Toledo.
ssI believe the time is approaching
when all commodities, such as water,
light and transportation, will be owned
and operated by the cities at the least
possible cost, so as to give the people
the benefit of the same. / feel sure
that the day of long franchises is past"
THOMAS TAGGART,
Mayor of Indianapolis.
81 am heartily in favor of municipal
ownership of street railroads. as I
think street railway monopolies, with
their enormous corruption funds, are
a menace to good government and the
welfare of the people,
GUS TAFEL,
Mayor of Cincinnati.
"Civil service and the city ownership
are the solutions of the municipal
franchise question. Private ownership
now involves city control, which is an
unfailing source of corruption. ELM
mate patronage and the right to regu-
late corruption and the betrayal of pub
l.c trusts will be practically overcome. >"
JAMES D. PHELAN,
Mayor of San Francisco.
sUnless there is a material change
in nearly all our municipalities, by
which the people are permitted to gov
ern themselves, instead of being gov
erned by powerful moneyed corpora
lions through legislative bodies, as at
present, there must as a matter of pro-
lection come the municipal ownership
and control of street railroads and 9th
er quasi public institutions"
r. E. M'KISSON,
Mayor of Cleveland.
II believe in the municipal ownership
of public utilities. In this class |
place street railroads. Not only would
the municipal ownership of such utili-
ties as the water works system, electric
or gas lighting systems and street rail-
way system, give better management,
but it would prove means of reduc-
ing the tax burden under which the
people are beginning to chafe."
G. A. COLLIER,
Mayor of Atlanta.
Municipal ownership of franchises
under right conditions, preventing I'M
scrupulous political manipulations, is
most desirable"
GEORGE E. GREEN,
Mayor of Binghampton.
EVERY city should own its own fran
chises so far as practicable. On that
general principle stand"
D. M. AKIN,
Mayor of Evansville. =
IT am pledged to fight for municipal
control, if not ownership, of the fran
chises, for l know that cities can do
the work better and cheaper than pri-
vate parties can. The sentiment for
municipal ownership is very strong, as
illustrated in our city very recently,
when the question Of building city
lighting plant carried by a majority of
nearly to l." D. J. M'VICAR,
Mayor of Des Moines.
81 believe in municipal ownership all
the way through. 1t is great mistake
to dispose Of franchises to private par
ties on any conditions"
w. X. ANDREWS,
MaVor of Roanoke