The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1903-03-05

cation % your psprr last week
seems 70 haze put ~ the isfs there
ia. 10 ibe eify vsser works pFopoti.
ton. am elsd NJ Moore wants
Information. Nov Inst j. just wbsi
/ want. and I think about enough
other people want ibis information
10 defeat the proposition, Bnless
they get Il.
Why didu't Mr. Moore. and why
don't Mr.. Walters, wbo was q part
ner Of = former owneS Of the ws;ef-
works. Mr. Iush, give them iris IN
formation instead Of demanding il
Of me. / don't pretend 70 know
anything about Il, and only made
my estimates upon the facts | hsd
and what ! Supposed might be the
results at the rates ! gave ] don't
know any Of the men who own the
waierxorks, don't expect any Job If
II carries or don't carry, don't ex-
pect any office in the concern nor
10 the city in any event, not even
that Of linenan.
But TO me there has been a son
OF secrecy in conducting this whole
business, that / don't understand.
l know they called three or four
meetings, only two Of which I think
we're ever held. l wasn't at but
one Of them, and then Mr.. Moore
did all the talking, except when Mr..
Ferguson got in a word OF two
edgeways. and then they only talk
ed about a hole in the ground on
Mr.. Loeb's place. ! saw a little
Dutchman there, q couldn't find
ont who be was) but he attempted
to ask questions two or three times,
but be was cut off short and SUBJ
merged by a perfect diauhoea OF
words and learned terms, until be
threw up his hands and gave it up.
Now, 1 submit that il does not stand
to reason that INV figures given last
week are either biunders or show
ignorance. I put the estimates Al
| did 10 see If the gentlemen would
nihbie. They took the bait, hook,
cork and all under completely, but
were careful to give out no informa-
ton.
I've been making some quiet in.
vest,gstion myself since. That is,
without going TO see any OF the wise
fellows. Do any Of these men sup
pose that $500 viii put the water
works, gas plant aud electric light
plant N good order, and extend tbs
water mains one thousand feet fur.
Their than they are? Do any Of
these people suppose that il there
had been Al any time a baie prob.
ability THAI an extension OF the
mains would pay, that that exten.
. sion would not have been made b,
the water eompanyi Don't thel
know ohai the people outside the
water limits will have taxes 70 pas
10 buy and support the plant then.
the same as they DO nowi DON
they know that il win give 10 NOR,
labonng men ia this city employ
: ment, than il does now, and that tel
chances to one these men viii b.
imported from Pittsburg, Kansas
Kansas City OF north Missouri some
wheref Don't they know tina, /
the mains are extended tina, !, wi
NOS be a ten days job ior labor. It
: IS properly donef
Now, | am as much Interested i
the city welfare Is any Of them arr
e | understand that city OWNERSHIP
6 runs very we'll for a lew years, b
remember that even the Detroi, ci
Q ownership 8, only seven years old
c Kansas Citv's Is not four year Ole
81. Louis Is older, bot who does "a,
: know the proveibsal diffiuess OF =
Louis water aud the sconrgc Of q
phoid fever thry had a few yea.
= ago, aud even now a Threatened q,
tnm OF SANG. Now, am Feady
" vote ioT CRY ownership, Il Ties vi
/. produce facts 10 convince me Whs
!. one sided questions prevail there
often regret whsa Il Is too late,
lmay blundeT and may Zee igno
y ant but Im not blind aud nsv.
was, MOI am a fool when ] ha.
my estimate OF the COS, Of repairs
two per cent when Il viii be near
Eve, OF when ! put the running E
penses "a $500 per month when
IL know i viii De nearer $500.
az the water company has golten. a
or eordiug to the Review, near s2oo
oe0 osl OF the plant Ia 70 years,
will venture the assertion that Il ~
iNnsf fhe eifv Ssasn nnea Atrfna n