The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-08-16
exceed three towns in the state where
the wires are buried.

the wires are buried.
Marshalltown is good town, and
paved. but the electric light wires are
not buried in that city. Webster City |
is a good town and partially paved.
and the electric light wires are not
buried there Cherokee is another
good town where we have been ad-
vised the electric wires are buried, !
but it is not true. Sac City is another
one, and Lake City also, yet the cleo
trio wires are not buried in either one
of them. And the same is true of Har-
Ian and Rockwell City and Of At
lantic. where large amount of paw
ing has been done. And DEBORAH, one
of the finest cities in northern Iowa.
the same. And at Grinnell, the city
visited by the committee, having been
taken by the bitulithic people to view
the paving at that place. the electric
light wires are on poles. Dubuque,
with all it's wealth and refinement, has
its wires upon poles.
Coming to the question of the own
ership of stock in the telephone and
electric light companies, we desire to
say that there are large number of
stockholders who own from two to-
five times more stock than Mr.. Con-
ner. The stock is scattered around
in the names of large number of peo-
pie. We recall the names of some OF
the stockholders in these companies:
l.. Cornwell, Charles Tabor, Charles
L. Voss, c. F. Kuehnle. T. J. Garrison,
Sears McHenry, E. Gulick, w. H.
Woolston, Carl Gronau, Fred Gronau
and several others, including
few widows, clerks and domes-
tics. The truth is the stockholders
in these industries are men who have
stood behind all of the public improve
ments which have placed Denison to
the front. These men stood behind
the Denison Normal college when it
was erected, and have stood by it
ever since. They are men who were
prominent in contributing to the OK
pense of the new hotel and the hos
pital and are men sWho must lie de-
pended upon when it comes to build
ing new opera house. In other
words. they are men who have proved
their interest in building up our city,
and extending its reputation for
progress and beauty, quite as much
las the editor of the Bulletin. who, up
to this time, has won but slight rep
utation for his part in aiding toward
building up these industries. Will the
Bulletin point out the monuments
which stand in its favor in the way of
contributing to the growth and devel-
opment of the industries and public
improvements of Denison, and will it
also point out the monuments of those
whom he said patted him on the back
and offered him cigars for the able
manner in which he handled himself
in pointing out the facts which he re-
cited in the Bulletin in it's issue of
July 5th? Does the Bulletin charge
that the men whose names are men
toned as owning stock in these com
panies have less interest in beautify-
ing the town and making it progress
i've, than the gentleman who appeared
before the city council at the club
room on the day that the contracts
for paving were to be let, although
perhaps not one of the men whose
names are mentioned above attended
the meeting?
Does not the Bulletin understand
that the men behind these industries
and improvements have developed
them at sacrifice and that their pur-
pose in undertaking them was less for
profit than a desire to build up and
make our city more attractive? And
we ask again that the Bulletin will
stand up and tell where it has been
all these years while others have been
taxing themselves to carry out these
purposes. 1t is not now question
whether the wires shall be buried,
for we can all stand that and maintain
our dignity. The more important
question is to decide whether misrep-
resentation such as has been INDUCED
in by the Bulletin shall go unchai-
lenged. We are for peace. but it is
not the peace that comes from pass
ing unnoticed the misrepresentation
which have filled the Bulletin for sew
eral weeks, especially when the
motive of the paper is as malicious
as the statements are false.