Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-15

want tue city u "a forward, II ron
favor puEb1ic Improvements. e you want
TO smash the franchise QndJDers. q
Ter the r~eflndiug ordinance" NY adj
vice given above applies here Voc
against the refund and smash the franz
chise grabber5. The evening paper was
perfectly quiet when the grabbeTs were
actually getting In their work en- the
Consumers electric light franchise. His
next is: The entire city administra-
ton is behind the refunding ordinance.
Republicans and Democrats are agreed
that 1t is a sound proposition, designed
to promote the best interests OF tho
city. "A vote for tt Is a ballot in the
right place." I would apply President
MoKinley's proposition to this sure, for
1t is too unanimous. The Democrats
and Republicans have gotten entirely
too close. There must be a frog in the
net somewhere. He next quotes Nh.
John Waterhouse, a 1evei-headed bust
ness man, who has had years of ex-
perience in municipal affair, who says
taxes will be raised next year unless the
refunding ordinance is adopted. HE
ought to know" comments the editor.
Vote for the refunding ordinance and
keep down taxes" The Presidents adj
wise applies here also. Vote against
the refund, for If 1t carries your taxes
will be raised sure.
Allow me to call your attention to
Section 4, of the refunding ordinance,
ON page 6, to prove that your taxes will
be raised if the refund carries: There
shall be annually levied by the Coun-
Gil OF the city of Wheeling at the same
time that the annual levy CT city taxes
for other purposes is made, until all the
bonds issued under the provisions OF
this ordinance are paid. a direct tax
upon all the real estate and persona.
property assessed by said city for tax
alton, which direct tax shall be levied
as a separate tax, and in addition to all
other taxes that may be levied for the
benefit of the city, and which shall pe
sufficient to produce each year uatil and
including the year 1884, a sum sufficient
to redeem one th~irty-fourth of all the
bonds issued hereunder, and in addi-
ton thereto, a sum sufficient to pay a
years interest upon all of said bonds
sold and unredeemed at the time such
levy Is made. The said tax shall be
collected in such 4 as is or may
be provided by law or ordinances OF
said city, for the collection of other
taxes on real estate and personal prop
erty. The collector of the city shall
pay to the city receiver on each sec
ond Friday the total amount of the
taxes levied and assessed in pursuance
OF the requirements of this ordinance
which shall have heretofore been coll
lected by him and not been heretofore
paid to said receiver by him. The said
tax shall he, by the collector, while in
his possession, and by the receiver, to
whom the same is paid, kept and ac-
counted for separate from all other
moneys of the city,"
Homestead owners and renters after
reading the above Section 4 Of the re-
funding ordinance can see very plainly
that their taxes will be raised if the
refunding ordinance carries, and there
fore President Mckinley was right in
1892, when he said you should watch
your enemies and see what they want
and then do the opposite thing. Has
the evening organist ever advocated
anything that would benefit the com,
iS PSoPAS' 1 soy lOAlOW tbC IlOc1-
dents plan and vote against anything
advocated by that paper and you will be
right nine times out of ten, If not al
ways. The organdst says the ordinance
Is worthy of the support Of every citizen
and 1T is bound to carry. How does he
know it Is bound to carry? I don't
think it will, and if the citizens will
take President McKinley's advice,
Find out what your enemies want and
them do the opposite thing" the refund
will be showed under when the votes
are counted on February "a, 1900.
Now as to the refund he says: 1.-THE
electric light feature Is a commendable
one. Did he think the same when he
kept quiet when the Consumers Elec-
trio Light Company were getting their
franchise Through the city Council?
Let me call attention to lines from
4S to So, on page 5, of the ordinance:
"The said ninety-four thousand and
eight hundred dollars paid to the re-
ceiver as above directed shall be kept
by him as a fund to- be applied to Sc
curing ,equipping and establishing an
electric plant to be used by the city of
Wheeling in the business of generating,
transmitting and selling to private COM
sumers, electricity for light and heat,
and for paying expenses in connection
Herewith, and shall be by him paid cut
only in such amounts and to such per-
sons as Council shall from time to time
direct, but only for the purpose afore-
said You will see by the above that
the city of Wheeling under this ordi-
nance can only sell electricity for heat
and light, but not for power.
MORE ANON.