The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-02-25
ONTARIO THROTTLED BY
CRASHING POLITICIANS
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
Attempt to Build Similar
Despotic Political Ma
chine With Georgia
Money

to telling the people of Georgia about
how cheaply water powers have been
| developed in Ontario and about the
low rates charged for electric service
| in 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 60 long distance from
horne 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 moro
i safety.
Evidently there is nothing in tie
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, bat when Seattle was
forced to raise fares On is municipality
owned street car lines and beg the
street car company to return the
bonds paid the Street Car Company
AID take back the system, lie was COM
! pellc1 to return to Ontario and its
Municipalities, now bvrdened with ap-
| palling debt because of their endorse
rneat CT venture in the Socialistic
doctrine Ct plblic ownership Ct pri-
7atc business.
Tie T-1t.l About Ontario
Ontario is a long, long way from
Gco-~ia and the people in Georgia
could not know of the complaints CT
commercial bodies about the poor. ser
wise rendered, nor Of the Political RIA
chine, throttling the energies of the
provicce, nor of the $4,000, 10000 of
expenditures for which the pubic OF
the province must eventually be taxed
in addition to paying ever increasing
deficiencies in operating the plants
and selling their products at less tSaa
cost, nor Ct the manipllatioHs of rec
ords necessary to keep these deficien-.
cies hidden from the people.
Therefore, let us talk about On
tario. One Of the greatest water
powers in the civilized world, Nigga
ra Falls, is at Ontario's door. Al
Mia ara Falls more power can be de-
| vclcped at less outlay than at any
other spot in North America. The
| aow of water over Niagara Falls
compared with the flow Of the streams
eff Georgia, makes the stream flow in
Georgia appear ridiculous. The
money necessary to build dam which
in GEORGIA impounds the flow of one
small S realn, wolld at Niagara Falls
prod-ce four times as much horse
power, and STORAGE dams, Absolutely
necessary in Georgia to hold water
, for dry seasons, are unnecessary a.
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 &C
water is comparatively small. Tha
streams of Georgia during dry peri
DDS become small and the Develop
meHt Of 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 ard some to store
large bodies Of water, for use during
the dry season. If Georgia bad
N;cgcra Fails Oithim one Kindred
miles Of atlanta, the cost of de0ciop-
ing electric power quoald DC greatly
decreased.
Destructive Foley
The Hydro Electric Commission of
Ontario is the pattern after which
the Municipal League Of Georgia is
drawn. The Ontario Commission has
been in e:;i5tance about fourteen
years, and up to 1920 had developed
less than 10000 horse power, but in
the meantime, it had sandhagged the
private companies which had develop
ed water powers in that territory ard
forced them to accept whatever price
the Commission felt disposed to offer
for their properties, and had taken
over many Of the privately owned
properties. It's policy has been de-
strlctivc, not constructive.
OF course, the Province Of Ontario
and its municipalities pat up The
! money fcr tho5e so-call2d purchases
and a proposed system Of radial rail-
ways, AMI have is3Gcd bonds to raise
money to the extent of something
over $4,000, 10000, and because Of
this enormous debt the credit of the
Province Of Ontario is impaired. Tho
hydro Electric Commission CT On
tario is eatanGlcd in politics and it's
service has become so inadequate, IL
efficient and unsatisfactory that COM
plants by commercial bodies are fire.
>quent. The political influence of the
Hydro-Elcctrsc Commission is so to;.-
mida5tc that any effort to rcJaticte It
is cborti3c.
This is exactly what Messrs. Key,
Eagan ard jackson want TO- bring
about in Georgia. They UiSh 10
build a political machine qOhich qcM
control Georgia and paue the qvay
for Socialism, and they avant the pub
tic to furnish them the money lDitk
Which to do it.