Show CONSERVE OUK WATER POWER RESOURCES in a letter to the editor received here this week mr fr gifford pinchot saya aye that the shields mil nw boo beo foro fare tho the senate of the united states gives to the power interests w without it 1 t compensation the use of water power on navigable streams the amount ot of water power these streams will supply la Is larger by for far than all the power ot of every kind now in fit use in the united states it pretends to hut but does not enable he people to take back their own property at tho the end of fifty bearss for or in ord order or to do under the bill the government would have to pay the unearned increment and to take over whole lighting systems of cities and whole manufacturing plants private corporations are authorized to seize upon any land private or public they choose to condemn bills which gave away public water powers without due compensation wem vetoed by president Roose roosevelt and president tatt taft the shield bill would do precisely tho the samo same thing today f it Is clearly up to president wll wil son to vetoe this ti hi as no doubt he will tor for it such a bill should be sanctioned by the pie lents enta sign signature iture the mighty voice nf t tho the people would make itself bearo more ways than one and the man who would be a party to the plan ot of robbing the people ot at their rights in this or any other er question would receive short at the hands of his constituents at the following allowing election |