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Show Investigating tine Lobby The, average citizai of this vai-Ky.ceia vai-Ky.ceia harcLy ba considered an ex-p-rt cn thj qu i.tion, cf utaity holding hold-ing compaaa.es. Consequently, amid lha ciiLirges at:d counu.-rcnuxgtS he hardly knows what is the truth. On one side, w s. the president cf the United States attack.ng these companies and attributing to them many shamel-ss acts. He is supported support-ed by many m.n in public life, re-ga.edles re-ga.edles of party lines, aj:d by the facts brought ou, by the Federal Trade Ccmmi.icn in its six yar i-iv-stigaiicn. On the other hand,, we see c-.r-ia u utility magnates, :n a widespread wide-spread advertising campaign, assert that the inve tm nts of meeny p.cpl.: will b. ruined by teie 1 g sia Ioj-j, opposed op-posed by many Co;ig.eso;iT u reard-- reard-- s. t f pa 'ty lin, s "Th. innoc nt shcu'.d net suffer with th j,ui ty ', ..eciare spoke.m a for the utili ie ., who admi. tha; seme mistakes hav urr d. New w th tlx 1 bbyiets on to:h ides be ng inve-rt.gat d, what a:e civ relative p. si. ion ? In the first plac , the Presia.nt i not int rested in any utility job cr ihe chaeoc of future pre fits frcm util-ties. The "ly ri l:i-h theetght t':n. o n be at- ' i'-uted to h mis polit cat in nature. Tlx u'ili.y barons cn th other hand attempt to pr v:r.t the abolition of a form of epnerprise that has been uiity ci niaiiy oi uie iijoot. iiuitiiiw tvttda OiuilcS Ol lilc pa.-!, b-noi-tt LtVii. , Wo CiO iikJi pi'01-ss to be uoo to UllO lillf It'will WlUUo tiWltl- OVuiiJ'-tiy UUI UL VlcvV o'l tlli tllwllliuuo looSco cUll-lOU (jy UilVoi,- o.'a ui v&tjjuiM o-oiiiijJaaQ.e uiOe-ti uiOe-ti ocuiiu-i xiisutl it. a-cuis aDuiUteiy tttxoLijmy Uiu.1. tine oOiii-ani-s oc otu uCtii. wa-uier ui-ie -s ny uicoii-oa uicoii-oa ox tLuqUdo-iy pi ou-'omig tiie puonc except, Uiivugn aLMuelli-.g uicin is not ceruot,i, out even tn. i-iouaj v-rsion oi tne utiuty h-ia.n co-myany measure is an nnm-uLivj t,am ovr conaicioijs prior to tne ,ji j tnt aay. |