Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-03-31
COMMUNICATED.

For THE CLARION:
The communication in your last issue,
title, "Shall the Municipality of Thurmont
have its own Water Works Or net" was 20
full of venom and misrepresentation that an
answer to it is unnecessary, as the intelli
gent, good people Of Thurmopt can easily
understand.
1t reminds me Of the lightning rod agent
who approached farmer to sell rods for his
buildings as protection against damage by
lightning. The farmer, jokingy, said, 'it
was not the lightning that annoyed him but
it was the thunder" to which the lightning
rod agent replied, for an additional price, |
can give you thunder attachment SO in
this case, it is not the true facts the party
wishes to present to the public, but it is the
imaginary thunder he would want, and pos
sibly the additional attachment to the Me-
chanicstowu Water " orks would be an APP
pliance to keep the water boiling hot in win
ter SO as not 10 freeze aud ice in the water in
summer to keep it cool.
OF course the water works is good thing
who says not, and who can honestly say you
must palt with this good thing for 1000
as the bill" introduced in the Legislature
says, and if you don't sell at this price, bond
or mortgage the town for $12 ,O0Oto construct
another plant. Now l notice his estimate
has increased 81 900 on the water works, but
that only goes to show the viciousness Of the
bill" before the Maryland Legislature.
The intention of dragging into this matter
the question of the honor and integrity Of
the sworn statement is PLAN. He wishes to
injure some one If he can, and reminds me
of the old fable of the kid and the wolf The
kid was on the house top and rallied at w..ff
passing by The wolf said it was not the
kid that rallied at him but the house top.
Now, in this case, it is the investment and
the few individuals as he classes them that
is hnrtlng his hungry soul. He don't care
for the taxpayers.
Negotiations were never spoken of by the
authority of the water company to the town
commissioners for sale OF the water works
and vice versa. The Commissioners of Thur
mont never directly or indirectly, formally
or Informally approached the Water Com.
pany on this subject.
The bitter venom Of the individual is also
shown in his statement classifying the W a.
ter Company as "tyranical," because posi-
bly, an exception to the rule was not made
in his or few individual cases when their
own service pipes were frozen during the
winter, one of the severcst known and dur.
ing which time many other Water Compa-
MES had their mains frozen whilst the water
here flowed all the time through the Thur
mott Water Company's mains. We were
the most fortunate known as comparison
will show.
Now as to applying the golden rule, sew
eral officials of the company had frozen wa
ter pipes and they were treated exactly as
any other water consumer would be, no ex
ceptions, let them be officers directors or
stockholders, there is no distinction; so much
for the golden rule that the would be ex-
FOUNDER of values of stocks, code Of morals
and exempliier of the golden rule would
have other people follow.
repeat without fear of intelligent contra.
dicuon, that if the town is bonded (which is
the same as mortgaged) to buy Or build water
works, all taxpayers will lave their proper
ton Of this debt to pay, whether they use