The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-20
DISCUSSION OF A SUBJECT
WHICH is NOW BEFORE
MADISON PEOPLE.
BUILD MUNICIPAL PLANT
WHY AN OUTSIDE COMPANY
SHOULD NOT CONTROL
MADISON INTERESTS.

sive little city. In this place are
found many public buildings, bust
ness houses and hundreds of resi-
dences in which the people take
great pride and concern. Few cities
OF it's size are as neatly kept and sub
ject to SO much care and interest.
Her people are wide awake and
watch with jealous solicitude over
her institutions and methods of prog
ress. What is good for Madison Is
readily accepted; that which is preju-
dicial to her interest either, now or
in the future, is promptly rejected
Madison has reached a stage Of
growth where her municipal welfare
is OF first moment.
In the city of Madison there is a
welcome for every family that wishes
an education for growing sons and
daughters; for every individual, firm
or corporation that comes here to To-
cate and help build up the city; for
every churchgoer who desires spirit
ual benefits such as are dispensed
through Madison's numerous pulpits.
In fact, none are refused who have
faith in Madison and think Of her
first and all the time while making
this city their home or while identi-
fled with her Various professions and
lines of business. There are good
people here. sober minded, earnest
folks who are already proud of Mad
ison's determination to remain COM
plete within herself; folks who would
go down in their pockets to finance
any project that meant her greater
development and municipal independ-
ence. This Is the spirit of the bust
ness men and the tpeople generally.
Madison should be built up from
within herself; from her own re-
sources; from her own will to remain
complete. intact, independent. pro-
gressiye. self reliant. There Is no
municipal OF public need that her
people cannot amply finance and they
believe in her upspringing advance
ment out of her W abundance.
They have been taxed to build pub
lie schools, to pave and beautify
streets, TO erect waterworks, to build
and maintain their own electric light
ing plant, and they submitted for 10y
al reasons, for that submission meant
greater protection, more convenience,
more Of those things that make life
In this city a matter OF contentment,
opportunity and happiness. On more
than n occasion our people have
been called upon to decide by ballot
concerning the erection and mainten-
ance Of public works, and preceding
that decision was always the query.
"Will the proposed project be for the
best interest Of Madison?" This is
the spirit that moves our citizens on
all public questions and propositions.
This was their spirit In the past. and
1t is going to be put to the test in the
near future, namely, on the matter
of whether the city, as a whole, are
of the mind to permit an outside cor
poration to wiring a franchise, cover
Ing Q long series OF years, from us
for the purpose OF supplying us with
electric current for light and power
transmitted over q long distance from
the Northern states Power company's
Plant al sioux Fails, or whether they
intend going ahead with the sale OF
the bonds recently voted to erect and
MAINTAIN their own electric light and
power plant, which in their judgment
not very long ago, seemed the only
proper, the only practical, the only
feasible, the only reasonable thing to
40 wnen considered purely from the
standpoint OF Madison's vital inter
est. The cumulative Judgment OF the
citizens Of Madison must soon be. ex-
pressed on this point. The last bond
election was carried with the intent
70 proceed with q latest municipal
project and we cannot conceive that
the citizens wish q reversal OF their