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Show COMPARATIVE- PERCENTAGES, BY STATES, OF GENERATING CAPACITY (INCLUDING POWER. FOR. INDUSTRIES) AND POPULATION SE-RVEO Tr. BETWEEN COMPANY ELECTRJC LIGHT AMD POWER, SYSTEMS Cr-Tr- AND MUNICIPALLY OPERATED ELSCTR.1C PLANTS lzfFT--. i a NoIq 50h of g?norainq capacity of company . b-&d')y , 'c73f Systems is isd in qtincrcrtmq ecctrciry- X 7 ljv!itSv Sb-TS-j'W of all industries purchasing eactrAra f y- "x Ck i a-3"T?s potior arc Stppied from company systems J ssS l'b-J-' LEGEND . TOTALS FOR THE UNITED STATES . n , , , B , c . I f a-PerCrYT of Population Served "v, CS X'-l 90V VCmpWvSlf5lBmS b-fVrC?nt of Gnratirg Capcity PT Cent of Population , ' - - r-t-.is "vA (including Power fbr ndvstres, Serve5 1 M. ESS tOo x , . . - - a -Per Cent or Population bervea d r v T:?r-!!'-3-g 94.5 "o Municipal fVnK'M.r cent Of Gengratinq Capacity Per Cent of Generating - m 55 a.---m--W (inducting Power for tnctusfr,$ - - 1 11 '"" " '"' ' """"""" PRIVATE INDUSTRY CARRIES THE LOAD . The National Electric Light Association has issued a map, made up from figures furnished by the U. S. Geological Survey, which indicates the service being rendered to the public by privately operated electric light and power companies in uiib u o try. Themap showsthat private electric companies serve ninety percent of the population and represent 94.5 peicentoi total generating capacity of the forty-eight states. Fifty percent of the generating capacity of private company systm used in producing electricity for industrial purposes. Ninety-eight percent of all industries purchasing electrical P" supplied bv private company systems. A lesson may be learned from the achievement of this industry. Advocates ot puui ownership have in the past concentrated their efforts on public utility properties. While they have been largely unsuccessful unsuccess-ful in extending their socialistic doctrines in this field, they are using such advantages as they have gained to enlarge tne i activity to other lines of industry and business, as witnessed by attacks made on railroads, insurance, shipping, etc. w unout considering what such a program would do to the constitutional rights of free citizens hi this country, the question ot wnat would happen to the taxpayers if all this property was removed from the taxrolls, as would be the case under a program 01 public ownership, is worth considering. There is no need for public ownership of any business or industry in America, wneie under the stimulating hand of private initative and enterprisee, the common, every-day citizen has been given greater advantages, advan-tages, more conveniences, and a higher standard of living than in any other nation in the world. Why extend the blighting hand of public ownership over the private rights and private property of our people? Too much officialism and government oppression of the masses has made a world wreck out of countries operating under that system. Too much politics is already injuring this country. Then why create more political domination of the individual by enlarging the field of political control over private industry. Think it dver. |
