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Show OUR CITY LIGHT PLANT The Journal Concurs and all Appear to be on Common Ground. Turn on the Light and let the Taxpayers Decide. Taxpayers, including Former Mayors Thatcher, Hay-ball, Hay-ball, Edwards, Anderson, and Robinson, will no doubt be glad to know that The Journal considers the City Municipal Munici-pal Light Plant "the need of the ijnoment," and now that all apparently are on common ground it is to be hoped that "an unbiased investigation and a plain report" will be made. , Notwithstanding the petty thrust of this paper for calling the attention of the taxpayers to this important matter, and our printing a telling interview from Ex-Mayor Ex-Mayor Thatcher on the subject we are grateful to the big daily for giving us credit for calling attention to "a subject upon which, without doubt, the taxpayers of the city must soon take action." We followed this interview with short statements from the. other ex-mayors, above mentioned, who concurred in a general way. If, in so doing, do-ing, we have committed any offense, it is in beating The Journal to it, and if calling us names will soothe its wounded wound-ed feelings, all well and good. As for ulterior motives we say right here and now that we have some. We had ulterior motives when we supported sup-ported the electric railroad franchise, the same when we supported the water system, the street paving, and the administrations and the Commercial club that made these improvement a reality. Their consumation was "the nigger in the fence" and "the spot wherein lies profit to be derived by the (this) paper or someone (all) connected connect-ed with it." In their consumation our ulterior motives have been realized. We have profited, the taxpayers and the general public have profited, and last The Journal has profited, notwithstanding its opposition and death bed repentance. It is the same now in the light question. We have ulterior-motives and hope, to see them carried 'out to the- profit and benefit of the taxpayers of a greater Logan, including The Journal and all connected with it. As we said in our last issue, this is a taxpayers' matter, one that can be handled in a business way, and one wherein where-in the opinion of each and every taxpayer can be respected, re-spected, and if all will adhere and concede as much there need be no occasion for insult, or saying things that are undignified and not in keeping.with our clean, progressive, progress-ive, matchless little city. |