Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-09-03

society that have eaten up the SUBJ
stance Of the nation and have oppressed
labor and devoured the houses of wild
ows and orphans, had arrayed itself in
sleeps clothing.
MINNESOTA MEN WHO FAVOR
PLAN.
Emerson Macmillan is chairman Of
the executive council. And who is En-
erson Macmillan? He is no other than
the president Of the Emerson MacMill-
an Syndicate that owns gas and electric
companies and street railways through
out the whole country. Emerson Mac
MILAN is interested above everyone else
in this organization. He is interested
because he is probably the largest sin
gle owner of public utilities properties
in the United States. To come nearer
home, Emerson Macmillan is one of the
owners of the gas company of the city
of st. Paul.
Who are some of the other people in
the state of Minnesota that are anxious
to have this legislation passed? H. H:
Byllesby & Company, the present own
ers Of the Minneapolis General Electric
Co., that is now without a franchise.
Stone & Webster, who were the former
owners of the Minneapolis General Ell
ectric Co., and who recently sold out
their interests to H. M. Byllesby & Co.
There is Ed. Smith, who for years
has been the hired lobbyist and political
representative of the public franchise
corporations Of the state of Minnesota
There is Cal Goodrich, president of
the Minneapolis & st. Paul Street Rail-
No.
last legislative session Messrs. Smith
and Goodrich had worked so hard for
the passage of public utilities bill for
Minnesota that they both had to so on
vacation, Smith went to Europe and
Cal Goodrich to the Hot Springs.
But there is one man whose name
forgot to mention, Paul Doty of St.
Paul. Last winter at meeting of the
Academy of Political Science for Mime.
sofa, held at the University, this man
was very emphatic in his approval of 9
| public utilities bill for the state of Min.
| nesota. And who do you suppose this
| man Doty is? He is the president ant
| manager Of the St. Paul Gas Light &
Electric Co. I almost forgot that he is
! Colonel,-Colonel Paul Doty. And where
do you suppose he got his title Of Col
onel? Why on Governor Eberhart':
staff. He is one Of the ten Colonies
that rode with the doughty governor IL
the last Battle of Gettysburg, through
blood and carnage and brought grea
honor and glory to the people Of Mime
sofa at public expense.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE
| COMMISSION IN NEW YORK.
Some years ago in the state Of New
York the legislature passed a Publ
Utilities Act providing for two commits
sions, one for the city of New Yor]
J and the other known as the up stat
commission. The people of New Yor
were told that they were to get grea
results from this commission, that tn
| city of New York had failed to tear it
self loose from Tammany,-that Tam
many had always been the great agen
Of the public franchise corporations o
that city, but under a state public uti]
, tiles commission the crooked paths wer
to be made straight and the recalc
trant public franchise corporations wer
/ to be brought to time. 90 s,...z:
What has happened? Why the stat
4 public utilities commission for the cit
: Of New York has passed completely ur
der the control Of the old Tammany OF
ganization. 49,.
/ The great experts employed by thi
{ commission have resigned because the