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Show SOCIALISM OF STATE DECRIED B Y BJJB BINS President of Pacific Electric Company Assails Effort to Bond for Development oi Power Properties, BOISE, Ida.. June KfforU ol states to vote huge bond Issues for th development of wntr power resource, i were assailed aa "hiuIh social im" ai the convention of the Northwest Klec-trie Klec-trie L4fcht and Power un.Hoc.aUun hen yesterday hy Trace y K. ltillin, president presi-dent of the l'ai'ific Hlates KKcti 1 i company. He called attention to the initiative ; measurs before the people of Califnr-I Califnr-I nia for a bond Usus of $r.oo.00u,ouo t( promote and develop power resourcei in that state. If thin measure Is passed ! Mr. UibWns declared, this t ntin 1 amount will be placed In the hands o; I a "hamlplt ked few," who will have ao ! solute control of Its expenditure. I This endeuvor among an element o the population of the count state, tn I speaker averred-. If successful, will se back the progress of California tei years. I "The Northwestern states as well aj California have felt a bad effect o: i thia move by the reason of the faci I that Kastern Invontors look aakanci at such projects because of Insecurii) , of Investment and becauHc they maki 1 no distinction between the Northwest-J Northwest-J ern and i'aclflc coant slates, the al . being n them a purt of the West.' Mr. Itibliin derided what he cntleii "a spirit of Mtatu socialism" in California Cali-fornia Hiid laid the agitation for statt j develnptnent of utilities by su-h nieth-1 nieth-1 ods to the dors of a few who tie de- clared have not the best intercuts oi ! their own stute and the entire West al j heart. |