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Show Municipal Power Wins Again The power trust is losing ground on a wide front in the west. ' , . Significant is San Diego's vote on municipal ownership, following a like victory in Seattle. North and south, the tide runs the same way. E. IL Dowell, San Diego candidate for council, gets an overwhelming majority on a platform favoring the building of a dam for water storage and power, and contracting with the government for city purchase of Boulder dam power. Advocates of private monopoly continue to use their old arguments. They say "Public ownership is right in theory, but not in practice." Then they cite instances of waste, graft and extravagance in public affairs. But the public is beginning to realize that most of these monopoly arguments comprise the "theory" in the controversy. contro-versy. The facts are that power rates are much lower in cities running their own light plants and that most of these plants are profitable. The edifice of propaganda for private monopoly, that lias been so expensively constructed, is dissolving, as the elections show, under the onslaughts of good common sense. |