Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-10
ANARCHIST Or
DREAMER" SAY
COMMISSIONERS
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
National Association of
Railway & Utilities Com
miSSioners Warns
Against Radicals

way and Utilities Commissioners nlea
in Washington, D. c., November 9Th
1920.
This association is made up of rep
resentative men from each of forty-five
states; these men are selected bV the
people of these states to study tie
operations Of public utilities and to
regulate their rates and practices.
TheyNare not interested in the cor
porations which they control, but they
represent the public, and speak al
ways in the interest of the public
welfare. They have given many
years of stud. to the problems of the
various corporations which under their
regulation furnish the street rail-
way, gas and electric light and power
service to the public of the United
States, and by reason Of their ex-
perience they are qualified, better
than any other men Of the nation, to
speak with authority as to what is
best for the public interest. The Rail-
road Commission of Georgia is one
of the members Of the Association
and was represented at the meeting.
The following quotations arc from
the report Of the Committee Of this
Association on Public Ownership and
operation, and are Of interest to ev-
cry Georgian:
'7'he question Of uriUcte ownership
NTH regulation as against public
ownership without regulation should
10 longer be considered by intelligent
investigators an opcn question.
"If the real facts might be ascertain
pG and tho C,,-@1,Dl l.
publicly-Owned and operated utility
as Is applied by regulatory bodies to
the privately owned and operated
utility, the general result will apply
in all instances.
1T seems remarkable that ann sane
man with q Euo1CIcdge Of the increase
IN all costs Of lsting should think or
expect that HRtiiity corporations
might be an exception to the general
rule. No reasonable mon has thought
so.
"The operation of these general
laws has again produced the politi-
cal agitator who has sought and is
seeking to make political capital out
OF present necessities. We all know
him and we all understand his mo-
tives."
ut stands to reason that no bust
ness enterprise dependent upon the
varying changes Of political thought
can be operated by the public in as
efficient, .methodical and careful .
manner as can similar business en-
terprise managed by a body of men
who have their capital invested there
IN or who represent those who have
invested their fortunes therein"
There are two classes of people
opposed to private ownership with
Government regulation"
one IS made up of the classes of the
Communist, the anarchist and all
others Oho follotO the divers and "a
TiouS governmental vaqaries 1oith
10hich they seek to suppIant oar con-
StltationGl government. The other
general class is the dreamer, the ~
ssoraTy a0ho deals IN ideals not facts.
",DLestroy private ownership Nth
pu6hc regulation and the merit steD
IS government ownership and govern-
ment operation. When that time
comes, # 1t does, our system of gou-
ernment a0iu haze changed 10 meet
Would Load Georgia With Debt
To add any comment to these strong
words from the Association OF Rail.
way and Utility Commissioners Of
Iorty-hYe states seems like sacrilege.
out you are reminded that the NUM-
elpal League Of Georgia is dominated
by James L. Key, Marion M. Jack
son and John j. Eagan, all members
OF and inspired by the Public Owner.
ship League of America, a Chicago
organization of radical Socialists, and
that these agitators who are bowling
about water power development and
low rates for street car, gas and cleo
trio service, are the agents in Geor-
gia OF political organization seeking
to destroy our democratic form Of
Government and they are brazen
enough to ask that many generations
OF Georgians be loaded with debt and
taxes to enable them to begin their
operations. They want the LegisIa-
ture to vote them hundreds of mil
mons OF the States money so that
they may make an experiment in
public ownership of private business.
when experiment has failed wherever
tried,
Raid Treasury for Politicians
Ihey want Georgia to place ita
credit for hundreds of millions of dol.
lars in the hands of the three leadSr~
OF the Municipal League of Georcis
men who have no KNOWLEDGE az fhs
business of public utilities. and who
simply want to raid the treasure ~
georgia and with it build a political
machine at the expense Of the peo-