Williams news., 1910-04-09
THE HUMAN VOLCANO
 AGAIN IN ERUPTION
Editor Willia ms News:

Mir. As piracy countenanced by civilized nations?
 Mir. B.-No; recognizing the evils engendered by that vocation on persons and commerce, all civilized nations united in it's abolition for the common veal.
 A.-Does the same obtain in smaller communities?
 B.-Yes.
 A.-Then what is T. G. c. E L. & P. Co., in instituting suit against Williams municipality
 B.-Piratically to wiring from the municipality SITS 50 for inefficient water service in violation of their charter, to which they owe their legal existence.
 Apo they come grateful and with clean hands asking this con- pensation? B:-No.
 A In property affairs, can a pirate do more than take away values without rendering consider ation? B.-No.
 A.-On March 18th T. G. c. E. L. & P. Go. handed the mayor a notice advising the water had been shut off and would not be turned on again until settlement in full shall be made. Now, since the cor poration is assumed to receive pay ment for its faithful performa nee of contract. why was water shut off? B.-They claimed to have rendered service and received no payment.
 A.-If they rendered inefficient service and demanded full payment Gas per notice to mayor March 16) then. when two small houses were consumed with fire in February as an inevitable result of such ineffi- ciency of water service. who should pay for them? B.-Logically. T. G. c. E. L. & P. Co should. It is no more than justice and is due to laches. As law principle, in a contract where laches are shown, the cuipable party shall be held liable to the extent of his laches in contract. In this instance laches have accrued through ineficiency in performance of contract. Such penalty is but fair and equitable. as we'll as legal.
 AT. G. c. E. L. & P. Co. state they would have properly replaced crossing which had been torn up had it not been for councils attl- tude toward them; further, the in- cident was important. What kind of spirit does this indicate2 B.-l First. a destructive; 2d, an indiffer- ent; Sd. antagonistic, and all oper- ate to the municipality's detriment without justifable cause.
 AT. G. c. E. l.. & P. Go. ad- init water pressure was shut off from pipe line at the time fire oc- cured in February, alleging it to be necessary on all pipe lines to frequently turn off pressure. Are we'll equipped water pipe lines in- adequate to sustain continuous pressure? B.-No; this line is sur missed to be- incompetent by reason of loss through leakage, to sustain continuous pressure.
 A.-They say if the town had provided the simplest kind of fire alarm the man at the plant, who is always in readiness, would have turned on the pressure. B.-That particular man at that particular time might have had the collie.
 A.-What moral right has any government to launch a corpora tion, for private exploitation, on the community and thereafter not readily terminate its existence on becoming inimical to community's interests? B.-No moral right at all. Here is a corporation which has demonstrated to the community through notice handed the mayor of forthcoming litigation with the author of it's existence, it's piratical tendency, it's ingratitude, it's un clean hands, it's greed, it's remiss- ness in not paying for the two burned houses as direct result of laches, it's destructive, indifferent and antagonistic disposition exhib-