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Show Kg ) f 1, ; ' SXTTHERLAND'S DEFENSE. i W 'j . .eoiirieB are defending Senator Sutherland's trickery K ",- ;jwKftrby, tmder miroepresentation, land was withdrawn from the for- & Mr?ic nd turned over to the Telluride Power company. S t-" These Valuable power sites are no sooner made private property i ; tht21 they are' cPtaliEcd at a fancy figure and become the basis ot B ' a heavy tax on tae-public. M . Instead of the people holding control ,over the power sites un-i un-i . der form o lea?8 and exacting reasonable rates, the power trust I is given free rein, and that course is sanctioned by Sutherland and T ' J his lackeys! or Tho whole ontfto is so given to crooked dealings with the public i , I as to be stupidly unconscious of the fact thaUtho people resent the sfj placing of the government's natural resources in the hands of mo- re' nopolists without compensation or restraint of any kind. ' , pA "United States senators are supposed to protect the interests of, I ''.' I. v ii : tho government. In tho case cited against Sutherland by the Stan- j dard, the Utah senator was acting as the cunning schemer of tho J power trust, though ostensibly the land was being segregated from I the public forest simply because it was moro valuable for agricultural agricul-tural than forest purposes. |