The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1921-02-23
ONTARIO IHROTTLED BY
GRASPINC POLITICIANS
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
Attempt to Build Similar
Despotic Political Ma
chine With Georgia
Money

The bulletins of the Municipal
League of Georgia devote much space
to telling the people of Georgia about
how cheaply water powers have been
developed in Ontario and about the
ow rates charged for electric service
n Ontario, and how the farmers use
electric current to pillow, wash clothes,
milk the cow and churn.
Of course the writer of these bulle-
tins had to go a long distance from
home to find the conditions suitable
for a background for his proposed
raid on the treasury of Georgia. On
tario is great distance from Geor-
gia and few Georgians visit Ontario.
Therefore, misstatements and half
truths could be uttered with more
safety.
Evidently there is nothing in the
results of ventures by cities in the
United States in Municipal Owner
ship of Public Utilities that appeals
to him. He did for while refer to
Seattle's plunge into the street rail
way business, but when Seattle was
force1 - Use fares on its municipality
owned street car lines and beg the
street car company to return the
bonds paid the Street Car Company
and take back the system, he was COM
PEELED to return to Ontario and it's
municipalities, now burdened with ap-
palling debt because of their endorse
ment of venture in the Socialistic
doctrine of public ownership Ct pri-
yate business.
The Truth About Ontario
Ontario is a long, long way from
GEORGIA. and the people in Georgia
could not know Of the complaints of
commercial bodies about the poor ser.
vi G rendered, nor Of the political ma
cl ne, throltiing the energies of the
pr vince, ncr cf the $40 600 00000 OF
G, andieares for which the public Of
tta province must eventually be taxed
IN E III TO paying ever Increasing
de!ic,crcios in OPERATING the plants
and cling their products ut Tess than
cost, nor Of the manipulaiions Of rec
ords necessary to keep these dehcien-
les hidden from the people.
Therefore, let us talk about On
TART One of the greatest water
powers in the civilized world, Maya
ra Falls, is at Ontario's door. At
Niagara Falls more power can be de-
veloped at less outlay than at any
other spot in North America. The
flow of water over Niagara Falls
COMPARED with the flow of the streams
of Georgia, males the stream flow in
Geor sia appear riticulous. The
money necessary to build dam which
in Ceo.ria In, >.nds he fow of one
small reGna, woj;ld ut Niagara Falls
proGlce four times as mach horse
4 u H. l.,
necessary in Georgia TO hold water
for dry seasons, arc unnecessary at
NIAGARA Falls. In Georgia all the
real commercial water powers are in
The hill country, near the head waters
of the rivers, where the volume of
water is compare lively small. The
streams of Georgia during dry peri
DDS become small and the develop
ment CT q lar~e and reliable quantity
of power requires great engineering
skill and large expenditures of money
Many dams must be built, some for
generating stations and some to store
large bodies Of water, for use during
the dry season. II Georgia had a
Niagara Falls within oae hundred
miles of Atlanta, TIC cost of deuelop-
ing electric poaver 1ooaid be greatly
decreased.
Destructive Policy
The Hydro Electric Commission of
Ontario is the pattern after which
the municipal League Of Georgi: is
drawn. The Ontario Commission has
been in existance rbo1t fourteen
years, and up to 1920 had developed
less than $4,000 horse power, but in
the meantime, ii had sandhagged the
private companies which had develop
ed water powers in that territory and
Forced them 10 accept Whatever price
the Commission felt disposed to offer
Tor their properties, and he'd taken
over many of the privately owned
properties. It's policy has been de-
Structive, not constructive.
OF course, the Province Of Ontario
and its municipalities put up the
money for these so-callcd purchases
and n proposed system of radial rail-
ways, and have issued bonds to raise
money to the extent of something
over $4,000, 100000, and because Of
this enormous debt the credit of the
Province Of Ontario is impaired The
Hydro Electric Commission of Or
tario is entangled in politics and its
service has become so iuadeCua.e, in
efficient and unsatisfactory that COM
plants by commercial bodies are frc-
quent. The political inflacucc II the
Hydro Electric Commission Is 50 fof-
znidGble that any effort to regulate "a
IS dbortjre.
This is exactly what Messrs. Key
Eagan aud jackson want to lriag
about iii Georgia. TAcy av.sh w
build a political machine ach.ch tia.
control Georgia and pare the aoog
for Socialism, and they ,oant the pub
lie 20 furnish them the money scith
sphich to do it.
(AnNyRpTIC EMENr-r\