Show UTILITIES UTILITIES' COMMISSION COMMISSIONS COMMISSION'S O In III J 1917 the state stai legislature passed passed pass pass- ed cd entitled the the V public nUlt- nUlt t tes es com commission The state got along alons patty pr atty well before it It was vas passed and the whole Idea Is Js a recent spasm cf ct would be reformers to saddle something v nc new upon the people While we have no rio particular love for tor I what are arc are called callea stand patters yet yet a n ais nI I standpatter Is the best kind Idna o of a citizen cit cit- citizen izen provided he he- heIs is not a D Because cause a a man marches Un under l' l a banner labeled Reform Is ls- no is-no no Indi Indi- Indication Indication cation catlow that he has anything of any merit Reform means means to form anew anew and ana frequently the particular reform is i s a reform for for the worse of or th the better When you ou begin tt tc t reform things that means tl that tha Lt you rou are making mors more mora lu laws vs to 10 li limit It t t. m mans man's liberties and every gets sets It It into his head th that t he is sent to q the legislature leg slature to to make famous and ana to pass soI some some fe law thai than will be a a wonderful benefit to ItO the people when in fact tact many times it would woula be better for the state if it ho he would resign and ana go o home The Thc public pub pub- public lic Hc utilities commission law Is one of ot those laws The last legislature appropriated to keep up th this s commission for two years two years and of that Is s for salaries of or three commissioners and the rest Is for Cor clerks and other expense Of ot what good Is this law Have you on ever heard of or anybody outside of t f the fellows that get the money that th t was by this law I It 4 t man man mm or a company wants to slY r i public service like railroads tee telephones and auto stagE stag nes then he must get set a f f convenience and necessity bere bo be bore re he c can n do business That is acard c t coard card oard Is to whether a aman man or company shall engage in any f f business of at a public character I L I 4 company wants ants a franchise to wild mild la a railroad Into nto the basin b. then be he Ie mu must t go so to the commission and falie l fa J lIe he gets It Jt then any other line is i supposed to be bo barred from Crom coming n n. n 1 This commission Is la to stand as asi i L guardian over oyer the thc people to teh teb hem whether they shall be he permit permit- ed ea to have any any competing lines o or lot got The corporations E who have have- havethe the coney lo to build railroads are ore not no to have enough sense to b brusted be rusted to use use their ther own judgment r money to make mak a business ven yen are tiro in a community as to the tiIe invest invest- nent of their own money when a as s matter malter of fact fac the business me men n ho iho venture venturo in th those se schemes have hav e i he lie highest quality of ot sense an and d Drains of any other class of oC men in i n he countr country The commission the then theno n o 0 o far as it has power will grant a d franchise for a couple of rears fears perhaps and ana give glye the rail rail- oad a monopoly of the opportunity or 01 the two years Is it not better or the right to build to be left open o 0 free freo competition and let the most vigilant and energetic corn corn- any como come in and let the people get gel he benefit of It Just think of it L 1 board created by the appointment f a governor at the dictation of or arty politics to pick out the mem- mem jers of or the board from men who lavo o not demonstrated tea any ar ir qualities for mental ability are areo o stand as oracles to dictate to men meu vho ho have grown to be great and ho rho can see farther into business management in a minute than an political board hoard can see in m mv v L' week and the statute books are aie with this his kind of legis- legis and the tho people have to pay he bills fifty bills fifty thousand dollars in two years What has this commission commis commis- Ion sion given the basin for automobile ervice Good service in good Jr r and poor service in bad weather Would Woula It have been any worse if there here had been no commission at ill It might have been better uner uner uner un- un er competition but It could not lave Savo been any worse And In say say- ng this it is not an at attack ck upon any line tage-line tage line at all It is merely saying saing hat the workings of f the public es as law is a fl failure and an expense pense to the people of the state |