The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-10-16
WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH ?

WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH?
1ONE TROUBLE with this fellow
" Bone is that in campaigning for
his power bill, he doesn't tell the
truth. In his speeches he throws out
a lot of half truths from which he
expects his hearers to draw false in
/ ferences.
For instances, in his talk here, he
exhibited a monthly bill for cleo
trical services in his own home and
intimated that the same service in
Kennewick would be prohibitive.
Now it is known that the city of
Tacoma has one of the lowest cleo
trical rates in the world and nobody
expects that a small company like
the Pacific Power & Light company
which serves sparsely settled ter
ritory and lacks the volume of bust
ness possible in city the size of
Tacoma, can meet the famous Ia
coma rate. Nor does Mr.. Bone say
that, operating under the terms of
the Bone bill, the cities of Tacoma
and Seattle could serve the people Of
the Yakima Valley at rate equal
or nearly equal that charged inside
those cities.
But Mr.. Bone led his hearers 10
believe that for the same service
for which he pays from one to five
cents per XVIII, the people of Kenne-
wick are paying from Ia to 16 cents
per XVIII. The editor of this paper
or any other Kennewick resident who
has an electrically equipped home
knows this is not the truth.
This editor holds no brief for the
Pacific Power & Light company, nor
does he approve of all of their meth
DDS and practices but he does believe
in giving the devil his due.
The editor has a small 5-room
home wired for the customary light
service. For more than ten years
electricity has been used exclusively
for cooking purposes. In addition to
the range, electric iron. vacuum
cleaner and other electrical house
hold appliances are used. A 600
watt electric water-heater is operated
"a hours a day winter and summer.
According to Mr.. Bone this service
costs the editor around $25 month.
But this is only one of the many
instances where Mr.. Bone fails TO
tell the truth.
| The present rate of the Pacific
Power & Light company has been in
effect six months. During that time
the editor has consumed in his home
an average of 1924 XVIII each
month for which he has paid an av-
erage monthly bill of 1922 instead
of $25 as Mr.. Bone says.
If the editor lived over in Mayor
Doc Browns home town of Seattle,
he would pay for the same quantity
of electricity, 1912 per month ar
$3.50 more than he pays here. Over
in Mr.. Bones home town of Tacoma
the editor would pay $7.52 month
or 20 cents less than he pays here.
Mr.. Bone may not be as wild IN
his other statements as in this but
the editor has seen and heard enough
of Mr.. Bone to convince him that he
is loud-mouthed, fact-juggling,
bunk-peddling demagogue and that
the propose initiative bill which bears
the proposed initiative bill which
bears his name is one of the most
vicious pieces of legislation ever pro-
posed in this state. :
If enacted one-sixth of all the n.y.
dro-electric resources of the entire
United States will be placed in the
hands of the politicians Of the cities
of Tacoma and Seattle with power
to condemn what plants they please
and make what rates they choose
without restraint or restriction. The
smaller communities and rural Sec
tions of the state would be perpet-
ually attached to the Tacoma-Seattle
kite.