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Show ill The Light Question. HL' The statomemt Is made that the Hercules WJ? people arc ready to make three-year light con- w tracts at 10o per light per month. This may mtf' I be true, it may not bo true, but if It were, It Lr would be rank foolhardlness for the general X.j ' , public to enter Into any such contract with the Hercules people; It would be foolishness to ae- SKr ecpt the Hercules lights as a gift. The city's JH&4' plant has cost the people of Logan about $1)0- WMf 000, and whether Its service Is used, tho plant wglt must be paid for. The city Is asking for Its poP-. service exactly what It was repiescnted would fy ' bo tho cost, :i.rc per single light, 70o for two Kr ' lights, and $1.00 for three lights. This is a JmW reasonable price, a fair price, and no one has ?WtJ , ny right or reason to expect good electric H', ' light service for less than that. If the Her- K" culcs people cut their present prlco to that of " R.,t the city's price (and tho Hcrculcs's old price) Rv then this Is pretty fair proof that they have :& j" ' been "holding up" the citizens here ever since & ifevi the election, and as a matter of general prln- r clplo tho people should turn them down. r wK'' If they cut their price to ten cents a light It i JM simply means that they do so In order to secure 9raf sufficient patronage to make the successful m fll operation of the city plant an Impossibility, MKV aml l,mt l,mt Pr'cc w" n forcc onlv unt" ' ifife' such a time as the city plant should cease ' Ev , operation. It Is but business for the Hercules I Wxfr people to kill the city plant if possible, and the h Tmlsh fact that the Logan service Is but a "side Hw lssuo" of this great company places It In such I WE a position that It can almost airord to pay the iWP people to use Its lights If, per chance, the '' F move would kill the city's plant. , 'fir"1 Logan has a plant of Its own now and it '"' -ft' should support Its own. If the people will ' lr,' support their plant, It can be mado a revenue ' Ife producer rather than an expense, and will as- ;P, slstjln paying oil some of the city's Indebtedness. , K Tiik Hki'uhliuan Is Just In receipt of the -, K, Linton Indiana, Record, which contains a M, statement of the condition of that city's light " plant. Lenton is a town tho same slo as Lo- , gan, owns Its own plant and during the month Bf of February that plant lighted the city and ' paid Into the city tieasury the sum of 270Xi ff' above all expenses. This means that If Lln-vj Lln-vj K ton has to pay as much for sticct lighting as S Logan has been paying the Hercules people, t X' fci-lil.OO per month, the Linton plant makes i- mm''- the city more than M00.00 a month. Logan's fc IK. l'1;lllt c:m lw made to pav and the people of Kg;'! Logan should see to It that It does pay. |