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Page 369 - Thomas Jefferson, founder of the present Democratic party, in extolling this principle, declared, "Agriculture, manufacturing, commerce and transportation, the four great pillars of our prosperity are most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
Page 166 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Page 116 - going value" for rate purposes as involved in this case to be the amount equal to the deficiency of net earnings below a fair return on the actual investment due solely to the time and expenditures reasonably necessary and proper to the development of the business and property to its present stage, and not comprised in the valuation of the physical property.
Page 300 - M cubic feet, less discount of 2c per M cubic feet if paid on or before the tenth of the month following that for which bill is rendered; Proctor district, M.
Page 116 - Obviously, the most satisfactory method is to show the actual experience of the Company, the original investment, its earnings from the start, the time actually required and expenses incurred in building up the business, all expenditures not reflected by the present condition of the physical property, the extent to which bad management or other causes prevented or depleted earnings, and any other facts bearing on the question, keeping in mind that the ultimate fact to be determined is not the amount...
Page 222 - ... growing" concern. If there could be a restoration of conditions which would inspire confidence in their securities sufficient to command the capital with which to begin the expenditure of even a part of the $1,000,000,000 a year needed to put these enterprises in a position to meet the demands of the country "both as a "going" and as a "growing" concern, it would soon restore the normal conditions of employment, expenditure, consumption, production.
Page 116 - ... entitled, upon the facts shown in the record, to have the cost of reproduction of paving now in the streets but not in place at the time the mains were laid, allowed for in ascertaining the value of its property used in the public service?
Page 188 - Inches by 8 inches and delivering 76 cubic feet of free air per minute at a pressure of 80 to 100 pounds.
Page 26 - ... of legislation is greater than you think. There is a strong current of public opinion in favor of it and I question whether employers generally would be opposed to such legislation if it is reasonable. The objection is not so much to the principle of compensation as the extremities to which we may be forced through lack of understanding by our legislators and the insistent demands of labor.
Page 15 - ... wet nurse' for suburban districts outside the city limits, although far worse off financially now than then. "I have always maintained that the plant should seek a fair return on the money invested and the amount so earned be expended within the city of Seattle, to the end that all our people should have light at the lowest cost consistent with good business management. "The tax rate of the city during the past few years has increased, at a highly unprecedented rate, and we have nothing to show...