Show united states government and company T the A e shreveport journal recently p printed r I 1 n tc d one of the best chronological reviews of the drive to socialize the nations light ond power industry that has yet appeared it will come as an eye opener to those who still think that the principle of free enterprise which made this country is safe from destruction here it is not the journal points out that about 20 per cent of the power business is now under government ownership or political management as against a tiny I 1 per cent in 1930 in other words socialism is making rapid progress according to a plan A generation ago the public ownership league published a set of principles for achieving socialization of basic industries in the united states which is being followed to the letter the socialists have not overlooked european techniques for benumbing the public mind for boring from within and for putting their schemes over step by step while most of the public sleeps their principle in this regard is called socialism 9 one of its best known advocates wrote in 1927 we cannot hope to take over the whole electric industry successfully even if it were so at the moment but a scattered series of grea great t generating plants sellin selling their power within miles ra radiuses dauses might be expected to havo have considerable influence upon the ex extension tenson of public ownership to the transmission lines and the whole industry in other words socialism is to be achieved on a piecemeal basis and that is exactly what is happening TVA provided the basic pattern this particular example of is an absolute economic czar in its great region the other authorities wh which ich ar are e now being n urged for the pacific northwest the southwest and the missouri valley and elsewhere over the country are cut from the same cloth the secretary of the interior is urging that the government spend up tor to within the next 20 years for hydroelectric development other government agencies and public officials are backing the plan that is encroaching socialism with a vengeance the journal makes a damning case by simply printing the record socialization of power is the planned prelude to socialization of other essential enterprise and to political domination of agriculture labor business and industry Is that what free americans want |