The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-17

industry would return revenue to the
State.
And Noah never knew the use or
the meaning of lobbyists"
II Noah only had known! Think
of it, How different this world might
have been. No flood! All that
saving of water! What start in
population! More votes down thru
the generations!
Air Maine. including the Kennebec
Valley and the subsidized press, has
had demonstration Of the folly OF
the past. 1t is fresh in our minds.
And while the point Is so obvious.
the Hon. w. r. Pattangall has told
US why we have been punished ever
since Adam first partook Of puckery
little natural fruit.
I'VE have been flying in the face Of
Providence" says Mr.. Pattangall, in
all seriousness. Ten years ago, we
would have thought 1t zone of Pats
jokes" Now 1t is no laughing mat
ter, for Mr.. Pattangall is In sober ear
nest. He meant 1t all right, or, If he
didn't he certainly fooled the repre-
sentative of the Portland-Press Her
aid and the Portland Press Herald is
owned by the Vice President of the
Central Maine Power Co., and isn't
easily fooled, especially on water
power matters.
Mr.. Pattangall says that the flood
just subsiding was inflicted on the
people of Maine because the Cover
nor of the State opposes the water
power trust. Mr.. Pattangall, 1t
should be repeated, was in sober ear
nest He did not tell us in his most
recent interview, but now we know
why the floods descended and Mr..
Noah gatherer up his playthings and
padded for the top of the highest
peak he knew.
OF course our long departed ances-
tor was wise in his way but you, dear
reader, should Just stop and ponder
on where you would be now, If only
Mr.. Pattangall had stood in Old
Noah's-er, bare feet.
The waters more recently fell on the
just and the unjust, Mr.. Pattapgall
AYERS, because the people themselves,
did not, last Autumn, wipe the present
Governor off the political map. In
that case, Mr.. Pattangall would have
been Governor, $4,000. lobby would
have been obviated, the gift In, perpet-
uity of the control of the Kennebec
Valley water resources would have
been signed, seated, and delivered,
and millions on millions in food
damage saved to the people of Maine
this spring.
See how hard it Is upon the just
the unjust alone did not suffer-for
the flood stopped over the reservoirs
of the Androscoggin and the Penob-
scot just the same as they poured
down thru where the State owns the
land on both sides, and the dam-site,
too.
How can the public longer doubt?
1t is no longer a political matter.
Haven't you heard? 1t is "out Of
politics" The lobbyists in the State
House corridors said SO. The lobby
lists behind the rail said so. Mr..
Pattangall says So and Mr.. Pattan-
gall is the Maine Poo Bah of the DEM
ocratic party. The various organs
of Mr.. Guy P. Gannett, who is Vice
President of the Central Maine Power
Co. and National Committee repre-
sentative of the Republican party of
Maine, all say SO.
Doesn't that satisfy you? There
stand the chiefs of staff in the two
great political parties of Maine. pro-
claiming to winds and wireless, that
there is no longer politics In any con-
sderation of the water power and
hydro-electric problems-from their
standpoint. 1t Is only the other side
that Is political demagogism."
If still you are unconvinced, there is
A. G. s. shouting me too" and my
friendship for the wild-eyed dema-
gogue. And echo answers from
many points of the compass-where
toadying pays-"Of course there is no
politics in it see Gannett and Patt
and Staples In the same bed bound in
the eternal ties of brotherly' rfetermin-
alton to prevent the Governor from
stealing the peoples rights to invest
in a private enterprise. He shall not
pass. business OF slapping their
manly chests.) Well die with our
mouths wide open before this dema-
gogue shall fool the dear people into