Show ATTACKS DEMAGOGIC the public service commission of tho state of washington says the great majority of people affected have realized realised reali sed that the expenses like their own have expanded compelling increased revenues there are borne however who cheerfully pay 12 or a pair of shoes for which they formerly paid 5 00 and who complain bitterly it the cost of a util itys commodity is tn creased 25 cents a month and ac cuse the commission of favoritism towards the company it any increase whatever Is allowed to meet growing wages and material prices ther seem to forget that the bulk of tho expense in operating most utilities Is labor and that each member ot the great army engaged in rendering public service Is compelled to purchase the necessities of life at the same high cost that confronts ua all we realize that it Is not a popular thing to increase rates it would be aay to deny such application and pose dramatically as friends of the people standing between them and corporate greed we a position of great responsibility we have it in our power to brans ruin and disaster to many hundreds of utilities and rend the financial fabric of the detata it Is difficult now to secure capital for paullo service enterprises terp rises and this commission by a rash stroke of the pen could make impossible in the state of ton we have endeavored in these trying times to savo investment in utility properties from ruin preserve the public sen ice for the people and at the same time be just and fair to the patrons who pay the arico it we should yield tf the clamor of politicians whose stock in trade Is reckless denunciation of public utilities and abisa of the commission or permitting them to lavo the results would frighten even those irresponsible agitators andrew carnegie tried desperately hard to give away hla great wealth and dla a poor man and ha almost succeeded his estate has been re cantly appraised and Is valued at tho sum of its no trouble at all to earn hundred percent on an investment in this town just bite off b subscription to this sheet and the deed is danei juel why they call them soap box orators ve dont know lot ol 01 ahw do ya |