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Show OLE HANSEN ON PUBLIC PUB-LIC OWNERSHIP Ole Hansen; formor mayor of Seattle Se-attle recently hiado a talk on public ownership of Utilities. Among other oth-er things ho said: "I cannot believe from my experience, experi-ence, that tho public utility that employs em-ploys any largo""number of men, c-where c-where a largo amount of capital Is necessary, can or will function as efficiently as a private corporation, which has ftnV'indlduol reward at tho end of the day. "It we want to make the, American Ameri-can government a kTiuf of pick pocket, pock-et, tho way to do it is lust to confiscate con-fiscate theso great properties through out the country, "I know what these little Bplttoon philosophers In every town Bay about all corporations, but In tho final analysis an-alysis tho corporations are owned by tho great rank and file of the people who havo been thrifty enough to lay something asldo for a ralng day. and I bellevo that our work, especially every public man's work In this great country Is to seo that those men get Justice and at. tho same tlmo see that the public gets adequate servlco at a folr prlco and compensatory remuneration." remun-eration." And this comes from a man, who, when mayor of Seattle, favored public pub-lic ownorshlp until he saw It work. |