Show I COST OF UTILITY BOARD I T TIn r Editor Telegram In tho the interest of the people of or the state The rho Telegram has lIas made madea a n remarkably effective fight for a public utilities law It would be a source of i unending regret to find after passage that the bill hill contained a n joker which might make it inoperative or contained any my subterfuge which might question the integrity of or The Telegram the Democratic party thirty or the other friends of the law communication points out an nIl Consumer in iii his Mondays Monday's attempt to do this very thing o and makes it clear that the public eventually ly must bear the cost cost of running the commission ion also that H. H as drafted there thero would be no limit to the size of the political machine that could be built up by the party in power Vc We may not always be bein bein bein in power and this organization might in future years be he even more potent in the hands o of some other political party part True rrue we are arc committed to economies economics in administration but why I try to deceive ourselves into thinking the cost of running the commission commission commis commis- sion can be put off of onto the utilities Y We r e the public must pay pay- this I cost anyway so why wh not come out in iu the open and lay 10 the expense first hand where it will go ultimately Y Let Lct the cost be provided from state funds as in other depar departments and 1111 then our legislators will hove have hovea hoea a chock cheek on this as on all nIl other appropriations Yours for a square deal for the thc small consumer and small tax tac- payer DEMOCRAT DEi |