Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-05-13

By another their money has been taken and
Iney nave been left to drink the sewage Oeaer ctes
IKE baltmore have reached the stage OF hlterng
the CITY sewage before emptyng 1t INTO the PVer out
wheeling has been left to drink liquids that Baltimore
will not even feed the3ishes
I0NCE THE PEOPLE THOUGHT they had their
~ wish. Seven years ago they voted $685. 900 Of a
bond issue with the promise Of their elected officials that
this would give them filtered water And they
Of the money go to contractors for fancy building
OF go to outlying stations to enable speculatng political
bosses to sell building lots at advanced prices Of
for automobiles for city officials, Of it go
for an ncnerator which will not even burn the waste
which it was promised to consume saw of it 20 to
g. Walker Petersons bank unpaid interest," the pro-
ceeds OF the bondsbut they have yet filtered
water.
Last year, in the face Of this dire need for decent
drinking water they the Big Business interests Of the
community planning to exhaust the cits bonding capa
city in smoothing the citys paving for auto speeding
and this broke the camels back They made their plea
to Mayor Kirk He told them that when he had paved
the streets he would consider water The streets had
been paved, and the paving out all during the time
OF need for pure water and still he wanted to pave again
They turned to their other elected officials and asked for
water. They offered brick.
HEY ROSE in final defiance and declared that they
would be put OF no I. that there would be filter
ed water before there paving or any other thing
The city manikis anu tic powers that work the strings
and wres compelled at last to listen to their real masters
voice. agreed to sub tile water proposition to the peo
pies decision. But, again did nsncerty Turk behNd
their mask Of conpalsatce, and all the and
thods Of political intrigue were played to the limit to fos
upon the public method that would mean the continual
purchase of chemical supplies.
But the voters after decades Of disappointment after
years of betrayal and sote the rckery by vote of
almost nine to In the first referendum vote they had
ever been privileged to have in Wheeling they declared
their freedom from the influences that had long mis-
represented and srued they declared for the Smith
Slow Sand Filtration System.
That should have ended the opposition of honest men
In ended the opposition Of T. NJ Haskins, whose manly
declaration that he bowed to the peoples will still rings
accusngly in the false of the constituencies graers
whose hearts be reached only through their pocket
books They've got their foot nickel and they Will
hold on until the weight of forward pushing public
crowds them off.
The people had decided and there was nothing in
son left but the legal foray of authorizing the bonds
In their selfshness they seeking to prevent this
With the help Of the Ogden newspapers the Ogden
political appontees they making every effort to defeat
the bond election majority has decided for the Ultra
ton SYSTEM but it takes more than majority toplace
bonds and they schemng to use the minority vote
dragged out by threats Of political and Industrial bribery
to defeat the will of the majority.
- WALKER PETERSON LEADS the cohorts OF
D. private privilege against the public welfare With
the $6 600 ngng in his bank pockets gotten from the
last bond ISSUE he declares against this issue which seems
hofd hope OF private gain Tor him. With private
y owned water plant in Warwood, and Warwood threat
enng to take water from Wheeling if the Smith System
is adopted his position becomes still clearer With the
hope Of eecting semblance Of support he and Ogden
have lined up sgners to public statement few VINO
have absorbed favors from them in the past present.
hope to in the future Three doctors in the list DR.
Jepson holding down, by the grace Of Ogden political
appointment on the State Board of Health; Dr. Ezler
holding down similarly the appointment OF City Health
Officer and DR.. Megrai that whited sepulcher who IN
City Council, seconded any motion made by cor
poration guard.
That's the caber Of their lineup. Men whose views
can be connected with their economic needs, men whose
statements can not but help to hold their jobs
libby HAVE MADE what they are pleased to call
arguments That is, somebody has made them and
they have added the feahery ballast OF their And