The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1919-09-10
NOW WHAT?

Mayor and Council at, Monday nights
meeting could be entered as plan
ket" charge against the Mutual Light
& Water Company.
That the citizens of this populous
section have JUST ana TEN ABLE
complaint is not to be questioned for
moment, but the parlance OF the
street-''there are others" who nave
no more consideration at the names
of this bull-headed defiant,
on'tgiveadamsky corporation than
have the good citizens and tax PAYERS
of the northend CT Norwich street.
This is not the beginning OF i
charge against, a recreant, worthless
(as far as service is concernedJ cor
poration it it but the reiterating OF
VOLUME of charges that have been
made in desultory way that has had
the effect of arousing the risibilities
instead of the ire Of this imperiaiis-
tic aggregation of landowners, II
parian rights owners, city owners.
city DICTATORS and h knows
what else.
But the PATHETIC, the TRAGIC,
part of it all is that the city council
If Brunswick CANNOT intimate. die
tate, expostulate nor dominate this
CORPORATION as to what 1t shall OF
shall not do.
1t is palpably evident that the city
council realizes it's utter HELPLESS
NESS in dealing with this OCTOPUS
whose tenacles have EMPRAC-
ED and are slowly but surely crush
ing the life blood out of one Il the
most favored cities (by natules of the
South Atlantic Coast.
The Mutual Ligh. & Water tom
nany assumed an attitude, years ago.
If s,lpercilious Indifference ana dis
regard of their CONTRACT with the
City of Brunswick as a HOLDER OF
three or more of the principal utili-
ties. There is not clause of tina:
contract that has BEEN CARRIED
out-unless by mistakenly this cor
poration. And it has the TEMERlTY
III, BRAZEN affrontery, to say-by
its action-that the people of Bruins
wick can PROTEST until they RAJ
BLUE in the FACE but that Keller
rem these impositions will come
when they-it-this corporation feels
inclined to SPEND thirty cents in
that direction.
CITIZENS = TAXPAYERS-ot
municipal corporation, begging, I'M
plcring the city council for enough
WATER to QUENCH the THIRST
of their families, and find that the
city council have to "REQUEST" this
microzoonic, mendacious, mercenary
institution to "PLEASE" furnish a
supply of water to the taxpayers OF
Norwich street-enough to take ar
occasional abution-with the residue
to BE- used for drinking purposes.
And the citizens of Brunswick
NOT Norwich street not Union street
not Bay street-but the CITIZENS
Of EVERY OTHER street is asked to
PAY FOR WATER that THEY DO
NOT GET-and that these conditions
cannot b. remedied by THE CITY
COUNCIL because the M. l.. & W.
Co has the WHOLE SHEBANG
MUZzLED, MANACLED and PAIL
1OR-that is as far as the public
utuility franchises are concerned.
THERE IS A WAY and there is A
WILL-and that will is going to DC
asserted sooner or later-that this
GRINDING, GROVELING, GREEDY
corporation shall not, with impunity
PLY IT'S VOCATION Of brigan"agc
much longer-there is limit to i'm
,osition and defiance and that limit
as been reached.
The News expects to give IN oc-
asional resume of the Mutual LiSil'
:, Water Company's peculations, With
is brazen intention to live up tc
he terms of its contract with az
TITLE CONSCIENCE or care a.
,ossible And The News IS gong