The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-02-22
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
BY c. T. RAwALT

and requesting that marked copy of any
comments desired make be sent them We will com
ply with that request for do desire to make some COM
Their paragraphs which desire to give at
tention follows
There certain principles for which Conservation
lists have contended for in connection with Water
Power legislation:
1. That there should be water power grants for
2. That rental should be paid to the gov
! ernment for raw water power.
3. That there should be public control of the rates
| charged to consumers for the service rendered
| to them by the lessee.
Then it always assumed that the lessee 60
ing to risk his own money in building the works and
take the risk of any disaster that might to him
Finally there the further principle embodied in the
Water Power Act that profits if any existed after
regulation of rates and service should be paid the
government
Pending proposals in connection with the leasing of
Muscle Shoals the Conservation Committee violate
every of these principles"
Touching No. 1, agree with the Institute in case
most other Big Business the plant If John
Rockefeller Of his class secured it should
think about ten days would scken everyone the
country but if Henry Ford it 1000 years
perfectly satisfactory because Henry uses
everything he touches for the public bnet income
is said to be quarter of million day. 1t would not
hurt the country if his income quarter of bill
lion. That is the difference between farsighted and
patriotic citizen and sponge that absorbs time
until it is squeezed.
No 2. Ford offers mighty good rental He agrees,
and please recall that his always good
produce fertilizer for less To keep the plant in
shape to turn it to purposes should occasion require
Besides his well known and invariable habit of paying
good wages to his employees is a distinct placed
where it does the good He would probably bonus
quite bunch of soldiers who for four have
plead with big business to keep faith with them the
promises made when they went to France to make the
world safe for plutocracy
No. g. We distinctly protest against any regu-
ation of Mr. Ford by the government They regu-
lated railroad rates high that crops the fields
for want of transportation Mr. Ford
rates on coal and the interstate commerce commission
refused to let him. The Union Pacific road some time
since tried to do the thing and they turned
down. We certainly rate fixing where Mr. Ford
is concerned. If Big Business operating through
bert Hoover The Interstate Commerce Commission or
other branch of government today the power to
nix Fords prices Ford who is there that believes
we would not be paying twice much as we are? We
are enthusiastically in favor of letting Mr. Ford
his own business in his way 1t better way than
any other Big Business has devised and excels
this grand old government much that the
outside the realm of percentage express Most everv
one has direct interest in Mr. Fors escaping govern
ment regulation His is the exception that proves the
rule Government regulation never required in the
case OF honest men honest business Government
ulaon is for crooks and dishonest business unfor
unatey is badly needed every line of Big Busi
ness not dominated by Henry Ford,
The paragraph following No. touches on excess
profits Well. if the rates regulated by the gov
perhaps disposition should be made of ex
cess profits Just think attention should be
paid to the profits of the sugar which has
Just been boosted by millions through the efficient
ganda of Herbert Hoover. But nasmuch as Muscle
Shoals will Henry Forda control with gov
rate regulation rider may pass up ques
tion. .H
Pending proposals regarding Muscle Shoals may vo-
late OF the conservation principles Also they
have done something else They have put quetus on
the attempt to give the proposition crook
as has been done with shipping board
was intended with Muscle Shoals Henry Ford made
proposal which this administration dared not turn
down. and out the donation OF the enterprise to
some favored combination.
THE Fifteenth Amendment does work
any better than the Eighteenth Amendment which de-
cared white and black people equal before the The
idea born of hysteria and like sister
the Eighteenth amendment incapable of enforcement
anywhere. And in the enlightened city of Denver
they repudate it and the school board arranges
laws aboishing it in substance if in That is
just what Telluride and Leadve did the Eighteenth
Ignoring law is not good Yet what be done when
you have manifestly impotent law and still through
combination of supporters and volators firmly tied
to the law?
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