People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Franchises Must Not Be Granted. [ARTICLE]

Franchises Must Not Be Granted.

Oh, it is coming, and municipal ownership is blazing the way for state and government ownership. Recently a petition signed by 1,000 voters, and 35 ft. long, was presented to the board of public affairs at Springfield, in this state, requesting that the city build and control its own electric lighting plant. The time is not far distant when the members of city councils will not dare to grant franchises to corporations to supply the people with water works, gas, electric lighting plants, and give the use of the streets for street railways.— Sound Money, Massillon, Ohio.