The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-08-30
RATES.
MORGAN REvERsEs HIMsELF.

MORGAN REvERSES HIMSELF.
The Reno Gazette man was as mad as
a wet hen at the editor OF the SILVER
State for saying that the consolidation
of the water and light systems at Reno
would mean ali the traffic would bear,
and the editor of that paper suggested
contributing to a fund to bund a home
for odd editors who had lived too long.
me Gazette accused the editor of this
paper of giving outside money a b ack
eye, and went on to say that Reno ard
Nevada needed every uoliar that cou.d
be inauced TO come into that town and
this State. 1t said that the investment
OF foreign money in the water and etc
trio light pants in Reno meant more to
mat town than anything that had hap
pened in the owns history. Last even
ing it had an editorial in line with what
the Silver STATE suggested. Editor Nor
gan is undoubtedly a great man. First
he mou.ds pubic opinion one way and
the works it over in the endeavor to
mould it the other.. Read his latest
effort:
The announcement in yesterdays "a
zette that the warning power and water
companies had arrived at a treaty or
peace was of more interest to the Peep e
of this pace than YOU have been the
news that Japan ana RUSSIA ndu I~dcIl-
ed an amicabie understanding at Ports
mouth. Not hat the former was the
greater event, but Simply that it con-
cerned more closely the severai thousand
people of Reno and vicinity.
Already there can be heard much COM
ment as to the probable result OF the
combination of interests. 1t seems that
the monopoiy is complete, and many
people are accordingly in fear that the
peop.e viii have to pay for this success
full stroke of high finance There even
seems to be a growing feeling that In
some mysterious way the wires VIII be
SO pulled as to annul the suit which has
been brought by the county of Washoe
and the people of the State of Nevada
against the Floriston Pup and Paper
Company in the nope of bringing about
greater purity of the Truckee, when il
now being poiiuted by the refuse of the
paper mill. The men who enlertaln tbs
fear point to the fact that the people
who control the paper mill also are the
heaviest stockholders in the new un.on
water and power company, and they
seem to think that the influence that
they can bring TO bear will be sufficient
to make it very hard SEEDING for the
people who would like TO see the True
kee restored to the purity it enjoyed be-
fore the paper mill was erected on it's
banks above his city's source of water
supply
This is serious business. if there be
foundation for these fears. There is no
doubt but hat the amalgamation Of in
terests as detailed IN yesterdays paper
will give the new company command of
the public utilities in this city. 1t is to
be hoped that the power thus contained
will be exercised in a wise and beneicent
manner. The people will stand just so
much, and when the pressure becomes
too heavy they viii turn to other means
for water. Reno is perfectly willing to
give the new company a fair chance to
see what it intends to do. But If there
should be any such move as an undue
increase in rates of light or power or
water, and If in some strange manner
the OmclalS VINO nave mad TO DO with
the suit against the paper mill should
become palsied in their duty and the
suit be withdrawn or in some way an
nulled, then the people of Reno would
begin to cast about for the best means
to rid themselves of the burden. The
most probable result of any such nap
penings as we have suggested would be
an agitation for municipal ownership
that would sweep the city from stem to
stern. We are not discussing here the
merits of municipal ownership. We sim
ply mention that when the people once
become thoroughly aroused they most
naturally turn to the solution of the diff
fculty which takes the power out of
private companies and places 1t in the
hands of the people themselves.
This article is prompted by the feeling
of fear which is more or less current
upon the streets. 1t is to be hoped that
the conduct of the new company will be
of a nature that Will not arouse that
dissatisfaction that is the certain pre-
cursor OF a movement for municipal
ownership.