Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — Power a National Need. [ARTICLE]

Power a National Need.

The public needs both steam power and water power. It is to the interest of the whole country that our water power should be developed as rapidly and as efficiently as possible. This development can be carried on only in one of two ways—either by government ownership and operation or by the employment of capital worked under the incentive of private property. Nobody but a visionary that the government should build and operate water power plants. Some system must, therefore, be devised for the development of water powers as a natural resource by private genius and private capital.—Outlook.