People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Waterworks, Electric Light & Power. [ARTICLE]

Waterworks, Electric Light & Power.

Two communications appear in this issue concerning water works. The Pilot is in favor of this improvement and believes it should be of sufficient capacity to meet all the requirements of double the present population. The power plant should also be large enough to run an electric lighting plant and furnish electric power to the several manufacturing institutions located here and to encourage others to start. These are three legitimate functions of a municipal enterprise of this kind.

The one certain demand of the people who must be financially responsible for this investment is that they shall get exactly what they pay for. and that it will be efficient in ali respects. The mistake made by the promoters. including the council, is that they have failed to give the public full information on the subject. In so important a matter an expression of opinion through a mass meeting would have been but the courtesy due the people who must pay the improvement. The citizenship of this community have a right to the confidence of their representatives. and if the election fails it will not be because the water works are not wanted, but because they nave not been consulted in this matter.

It is reported here as the Pilot goes to press that Motion was visited by a larsfe fire Thursday. One thing is painfully evident—that it takes bonds to sustain this gold standard Sherman issued bonds directly after silver was demonetized in 1873; and Carlisle issued them after silver was demonetized in 1893. What if this country has a larger circulation of money than any other on earth (which isn’t so) that does not change the fact that there is not enough money to transact a cash business. Suppose every other country oo the earth committed suicide—i 6 that any reason why we should do the same?