Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-16
typhoid germs. The risk Is too terrible
to think about.


AS to the wisdom of meters a meter
salesman tells us that Minneapolis with
a full meter service is pumping no
more water now for 100000 people than
she did for $4,000 people when she had
no meter service. That Sioux City,
| Iowa, and Lincoln, Neb., are now
pumping only thirty five gallons per
day per capita with meters while Mar
shalltowp pumps 100 gallons per day
per capita based on $4,000 population.
Think of paying 10 cents per day fiat
rate for all the strawberries you can
eat and throw in the garbage can and
you are doing business without meters.
The mayor is right on this proposition.
The mayors public chastisernent of
four councilmen who refuse to permit
him to put rings in their noses, three
of whom were elected on the mayors
ticket is both sad and ridiculous.
There is no possible reason for repeal
ing my gas ordinance" he shrieks and
then throws out some insulting remark
about an editors wife's relations so as
to accuse these four men of working for
some individuals gain rather than for
the public interest as they see 1t. My
gas ordinance, indeed. When the mayor
knows that he got the original draft of
his gas ordinance from the very editor
whom he tries to insult that he got his
information as to gas rates from the
same source and then blows and blus-
tiers around about my gas ordinance
while accusing these men of newspaper
dictation to cover up the fact that
when he was serving the real public in
terest himself he got his information
fVo r 1 hny
he now tries to insult. II the mayor
would shout less about my" policies
and Il am" and give men elected to the
city council credit for some self respect
and independence of mind he would
not lose the friends who had pulled his
ticket thru for him at an election.
"You have seen fit to ignore the
citys duly elected legal department"
he complains and why shouldn't they?
When they first proposed to reduce
the electric rates this duly elected
legal department tried to confuse and
trip them by telling them that they
were barred from so doing by a previ-
Gus stipulation He was doing it with
the mayors consent This was not the
law. They had to hunt up lawyers who
would help them instead of helping
the mayor to stop them.
Your dilatory actions-your failure
to act. had held up the litigation of the
mayors gas ordinance over two terms
of court he said whether the fran
chse you voted to Darling was good
or bad is not now material. You voted
it and the people rejected it," Oh!
Pshaw. Think of addressing such stuff
to Gregory, McCarten and Herman,
who voted against the Darling fran
cfise which the mayor forced thru
himself and who got out and beat it at
the polls Was the man insane with
anger or just silly?
His reported confession made to Mr..
E. T. Mack is the only explanation.
Ed" he is reported to have said the
commission plan is my only hope and
YOU know what that means to you. l
don't care who is elected commissioner
if was mayor / could get at least one
of them with me and then / could ac-
complish something which is more
than any man can do with these four
blockheads in my way You ought to
put your shoulder to the wheel on this
thing" Now that is a misconception
of the commission plan. While 1t is
true that if the government OF this
city was placed in the hands of three
men instead of eight there would not
be so many to line up on proposition,
it does not follow that If all power
was to be vested in three men instead
of eight the people of this city would
be any more likely to re-elect the pres
ent mayor than they would be without
the commission plan.