The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-05

stations and hundreds of miles of pipe lines with the
idea of making it permanent business casts easiys
Do YOU know that natural gas Is not necessity
but a liixury that for heat and light, and
turing purposes, there plenty Of other fuels such
as hard coal soft coal. wood, coke oil, prodncer s
and electricity and, therefore, since there are plenty
Of other such fuels but gas because
ii IS more convenient cleaner simpler tosse andsIn
some eases less expensive don't you think che people
who want to use it, whether they be ID West
or elsewhere, ought to pay enough Tor It TO- return
the money invested the business, after taking into
account that it business OF great present risks
and future uncertainty
III YOU had something valuable TO sell FOR which
there was great demand, wouldn' you cry 70. find
a market for it, no matter how far away which
would bayou d reasonable interest on your Invest
nnent and eventually return the money Invested
Would you invest millions and hundreds 81 millions
in any business unless you could expect your money
to be returned and a profit for your riske
Dent YOU think that yot the taxpayer. the fafrasfs
the landowner the manufactures, the merchant, the
professional man, the furnisher of materials, the
employee and all Of you who compose the pOpuatio
Of West Virginia, and who benefit as shown above
from the gas business, hope TO have these Dement'S
increased only by allowing natural gas to be sold o
a reasonable and profitable price wherever there Is
market within the State without for industtiM
or domestic iuse2
DO you thinlit good policy for State that las
great natural resources such as timber gas, c6al snd
Oil and produces them to insist that they shallI5
sold cheaper within the State than elsewheFes M
Don't YOU know that you cannot prevent ia pro-
dueer from taking his product for sale where 4Ie
chooses, whether that product be corn, WHEAT ppa
toes coal timber, oil or gas and that to attempt 70
make him sell his product cheaper in West ViEginla
than he can sell elsewhere would force the sale 81
these natural products elsewhere, and cripple the
industries OF your State?
Don't you know that the great industries of your
State which use natural gas would have just eause
TO complain if By such penny-N1se pound toesn
policy the gas companies were forced o Their
Gas outside the State and thus these factoEies
TO shut down or move away3 f.s:sss..1.ss9
Don't Won realize that the great industrial and
Misunderstanding States Of this country have beeofe
so and continue only b treating fairly aId
those industries which IRE situated within their boh7
dcrg; and also that capital. which is provefblaliY
timd win not 90 where it fears it win not get such
treatment? -
Don't you think that the prosperity Of the lhfns-
tries and the people OF State is the g
the State and that the State can have no ifertsts
except the interests Of the people Of the state2 ~
These are the questions we. ask you, aud
we win appreciate it greatly IS you vii eis-
. c,lss them among yourselves and then COM
m,lnicate with us and say frankly what you
think.
Write to as on a postal card. o. ss'sa s.s9s i
letter. ne aoiR appreciate hearing fran ai9ss-
This. Is our first letter to you. Qt MI ts
fol,osoed By Others. So giee as yotiT. 0Ssee s
ne scill a0elconae them.
We can answer your questions n!olr n ls,E
letter or possibly direct TO the tot.
Ask us any reasonable questions and 1tssae
is possible to do SO, we viii answer t1ett
You and we are each so deeply interested
in the business of discovering, prodtle ald
marketing West Virginia's natural wealth
that a frank discussion Of its features ssnl
do us both no harm and may lead toa better
understanding.
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