The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-17
NO WATER-P OVER MONOPOLY!

people the Valley in Alabama commended
determined against the efforts of the Alabama
Power Company establish water monopoly in this
state They but voice warning which finds ready echo
throughout the state In memorial printed elsewhere in this
Alabama the of this state and the Public Service Com
withhold approval of the companys application
of its lines Huntsville o point
Colbert county Sheffield The for
petition such will the people Alabama that
the application of the should be denied
the place. the of the not such
persuade the people that its monopoc control of the
this state would not be dangerous and
public welfare and industrial advancement of Alabama
tactics by of which the
obtaining valuation for its property five million dollars
greater than finally authorized by the Public Service Commission
entang the people, homes and industry of this state
potential burden of four hundred thousand dollars annually
made the people of Alabama alert the of
porate monopoly of the states water power.
In the second place. there should be granted to the
Muscle Shoals district which would
be likely the slightest degree to eopardze the development
the interests the
The people this willing for the Muscle
project the company only
bectue would result unwecome monopoly but also be-
the company proposition with regard to Muscle
Shoals falls woeuly short of the public desire with to
future development In the language of the memorial of the
people of the Tennessee Valley:
Sec T. The proposal of the Alabama Company
templates creation of additional except that
generated at the Wilson Dam, and that all the be
turned it for its and for the perpetuaon of
its water monopoly, and contempates the abandon
men to the bats and owls Of the two great nitrate plants
SEVENTH million dollars and makes provision for the
navigation OF the
On the other hand both Henry Ford and the Norris plan
the construction of two dams Muscle Shoals storage
servor the reaches opening of the entire
CATION full utilization of the at these DAMS manufacture
of munitions for the nation in time of and of fertilizers in
time Thus opposing the application the Alabama
Power Company the citizens fighting monopoes The
Alabama Power Company prospective monopoly of the water
of Alabama and the fertilizer trusts monopoly
of the fertilizer sources of the United States.
In view of the above facts the petitioners beg that he Ala
bama Power Company be required to curb its mpaence and to
withhold its hand from the Wilson DAM this
of people through whose efforts sacrifice
generation this dam has been built in millions
of farmers who have looked to its relief
the oppression of blghng fertilizer monopoly the
Of patriotic Americans throughout the nation
learned to look the from Wilson Dam Gibraltar
for the protection of nation and its institutions the grim
eventualty of with foreign power"
This memorial should be needed should receive the earnest
and cordial Endorsement of the people the entire of
bama calls attention plan certain successful
the and legitimate development of the and
industrial poentiaes of the Tennessee Valley Governor
has various occasions his aagonsm this sort
of monopoly of state while the record of the
public service commissioners such the belief
view the situation with single the welfare
public they The people of Alabama
further encroachments of the company
monopostic of the states power
its tendency seek political control
and in the nation.