I see no reason why we should deliberately keep on helping to fasten the handcuffs of corporate control upon ourselves for all time merely because the few men who would profit by it most have heretofore had the power to compel it.
The essential things that must be done to protect the water powers for the people are few and simple.

First, the granting of water powers forever, either on non-navigable or navigable streams, must absolutely stop.

It is perfectly clear that one hundred, fifty, or even twenty-five years ago our present industrial conditions and industrial needs were completely beyond the imagination of the wisest of our predecessors.

It is just as true that we can not imagine or foresee the industrial conditions and needs of the future.

But we do know that our descendants should be left free to meet their own necessities as they arise.