The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-09-09

Ing, we believe, with the other members
Of the committee of twenty-one, that
public service companies should reason
ably be regulated and afforded the pro-
tectlon that comes with regulation and
approaching that the committee was
not appointed or constituted to consider
methods Of regulation, peyertheless de-
sire to record their opinion that some
TORN Of regulation of private COM
panIes should be adopted in each OF
the United States. What that form
should be this commission is not pre-
pared by any Investigation or any
study it has made to suggest.
Finally, we who stand In opposition
to municipal ownership, speaking, we
believe, for all indivfdualists, arraign
the arrogance of many of its advocates
In assuming that they exclusively oc-
cupy the field of reform in dealing
with the problems concerned and that
they are the sole promoters of meas
uTes of economic improvement in mu-
nicipal affairs. We assert that the OPP
ponents of municipal ownership and
operation, firm and consistent support
ers of justice, are the class seeking the
public welfare intellIgently and in ac-
cordance with American principles. On
this point we do not yield to any body
OF men. .-'.-~---
We seek, rs a first principle, to In
sure every man his own. In doing so
and In endeavoring to protect the pub
lie against oppression and error we
find it our duty to demonstrate the err
roFs in the schemes of municipalities
and Socialists and to warn against the
oppression that they threaten. We are
resisting efforts to put burdens on the
backs of the American people. We can
rot and Will not remain silent while
The attempt is made to thrust costly
and impracticable projects upon Gus
toners of public service corporations
and upon the public Mt large.
We know the truth will out We are
confident that ultimately the American
people must appreciate at their value
the unsoundness Of the arguments of
the municipal Socialists. We shall aid
In fastening the day when our fellow
citizens viii know through discussion
what the publi London have been
taught by bitter experience. London
has awakened to the perils OF muniei-
palizatton. as is evidenced by its YER
diet III the recent borough and county
elections. In that great city the munic-
IpaliZcrS have led their fellow citizens
ostray. and their dupes. finding it out,
have administared to their false guides
nm overwhelming rebuke.
We individuallsts are not seeking to
lead the people In strange paths. Our
nin is to keep them In the paths they
have heretofore trod paths well
known, along which the American pco-
pie have marched to heights OF pros
perity and civic development not
Tho CostIiest Picture.
The costliest picture IN the world Is
one painted by Raphael In 1906 anl
now owned by the Duke of Mari. |
borough It is known as the BIenheirl
Madonna from the name of the duke.
palace. The picture is eight feet high
and represents the Madonna and Chill |
on throne, with the figures of ST, |
John the Baptist and St. Nicholas OF I
Bari on the left and right respectively |
1t owes 1t enormous valuation of moro |
that $35oooo to- the fact that it is one |
Of the best preserved specimens Of
Raphaeps work in exIstsnee.-~Nn