Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-12-16
Mr.. M'G0LDRICK
WRITES AGAIN
He Tells The People What He
Proposes to Do With
His Franchise.

While the people of Palestine are
waiting and wish to know if they are
to have a gas plant, 1 may answer by
saying / have never failed to build a
gas plant at any point where once
started. Shreveport, San Antonio,
Beaumont, Cleburne, San Angelo, all
have good plants built by me; and if
the people treat me right Twill build
plant here, and in less time than my
franchise calls for.
AS for your mayor and council, I
will cay this: They are all right, and
are very careful, only doing thing at
time they think they are right. l
pride them and their Judgment. AS
I know they would not investigate
what had after an investigation had
been held by the Board of Trade, and
those gentlemen were sstisfied-if they
did not treat all others the same. You
all know they wanted to reduce my
price to one dollar per thousand cubic
feet, but when / explained to them
and showed safe and pure gas, and
ct the same time gas that was cheap,
even at the price wanted; a gas that
was doing the business in the face of
another gas company and electric
company, gas that by looking up all
who had used 1t and were using it, had
no enemys-nothing but praise-they
gracefully gave me reasonable
chance. and placed your city in the
same class as Texsrkans, Beaumont
and Houston. You all know il my
gas is too high / would get no one to
use 1t in other places; therefore, why
should / wish to build plant here?
Because any other places 1 am sure of
getting the business. will not take
up your time on the other franchises
that are applied for, but will say, if
these people will do the same as we
have done-go into city, install gas
plaak beside other companies (both
elacfic and old line gss)-and If they
will show, after a year, they have
sssooas tfi5s, they may be In our class
Yet we have been in the face Of the
Texsrkana Gas and Electric company
very nearly two years, and they have
spent nearly 100000, and we are on
top. They first used coal gas and over
four months ago replaced it with
crude oil gas. Still we have more
than we can catch up with. You all
know this to be fact. Yet some Of
you say: "All that our people want
is gas-any old gss-just as cheap as
possible" Not thinking that gas can
be sold at one dollar per thosand at
more profitable basis than a good gas,
as it takes two to three times as much
of that cheap gas to go as far as the
good gas will go. Why practice this
deception on the council and after
wards the public?
| could ill the pages of this paper
with the work of people who have
played on the goodwill aud hospitality
of our southern people. Do these
dollar gas people tell you why they
can't get into Houston, Galveston, San
Antonio, Dallas or New Orleans, or
any large city we have in the South?
Every one knows oil and fuel are
higher than it is North, yet they tell
you they can't get in any of these
large cities, because the council
and mayor will not let them in. Why?
1 can tell you. First, They must
know the quality Of gas they are going
to give at that price; and to be plain
with you, for fear of test being
made-thst is the city expert-that all
large cities are in close touch with,
they are showed under. This is why
they fight shy of these large towns,
and they know If their gas is placed
beside gas 10 these large towns-even
selling at 81 5O-the old gas will get