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The speech questions whether development should follow private enterprise with state supervision or be carried out by the state through a water power authority. 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\n# cOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FLMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n308ZUnterryer,Snuel,1858-1940.Box 235\"Zhe nont urcent,econonio anl politienl isnueof the dey;\":Thall the wator powor of the atatebe developed by 2rivnte onterprise tunler stnesupervinion or ly the stnte thurouch a water powterauthority?\";argirent in fnvor of stnte levelop-nent befon the anmenl convnntion of thn \"\"iriecounty lengue of romen voters at Btaffalo,I.Y..October 2R,1927,by Suruol Unternyer.1927,30 p.24 cn,409878HLE  \nRaproucfons may notbe maso wimoutpemison nom Coumha UnhorsyLuraries             \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:          35mmBEDUCTION RATIQ:      14:1  \nIB IIB  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                  50  \nINITIALS:                    7uM  \nTRACKING是：                                                                                        23766  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n2  \n8  \n己  \n02多5  \n# “THE MOST URGENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICALISSUE OF THE DAY”\n\n“Shall the Water Power of the State be dereloped byPrivate Enterprise ander State Superoision or bythe State through a Water Pouer Authority?”  \nARGDMBNT IN FAVOB OF  \nSTATE DEVELOPMENT  \nBEFOBE THE ANNUAL OONVENTION OF THB  \nERIE COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERSAT BUFFALO,N.Y.  \nOcTOBEB 28,1927  \nBY  \n8AMUEL UNTERMYER  \n# \"THE MOST URGENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICALISSUE OF THE DAY”\n\n“Shall the Water Pocer of the State be developed byPrivate Enterprise under State Supervision or bythe State through a Water Powcer Authority?”DEBATE BETWEEN HON.SAMDEL UNTEIMYEE OF NEw YORKAND Hox.WILIIAM H.SABGENT OF SYRACUSBBEFOBE THE ERIE CoUNTY LEAGDE or WoMENVoTEES AT BUPFALO,OcTOBEB 28,1927.Mn.UNTEEMYBn's OPENING ABGUMENT.Mrs.Chairman,Ladies and Gentlemen:The immediatedevelopment of the great waterpower resourcesof the Statethrough the building of dams and generators and its trans-mission in hydro-eleetric power is the most importantproblem of the day.Not only in the State but in theNation it is one that should arrest the attention of theeountry and should be aceorded the right of way in prio-ity to every other question before the people until it issolved.  \nThe Federal Government has been bending its energiesto a solution which whilst it does not do justice to thepcople is distinctly lese disturbing than the situation inthis State.  \nIn point of fact,the two proposals are as far apart asthe polea,as will be hereafter shown,but neither is justto the people,who are now on the eve of being deprivedof their greatest remaining natural resouree,under legalforms and plausible pretexte,as they have had flehed from  \nthem all their other fabulous billions of natural wealthwhich,if conserved,would have more than paid the presentBtaggering National Debt  \nThe State policy,against which the Governor has beenstrugling for over five years,has been and is dietated byselfish,powerful,sinister private interesta.  \nI shall deal to-night,in the main,only with our vastremaining State water power,part of which we harealready had taken from us and exploited for private gainAs a resu't of the obstruetions that have been placedin the path of the State in the development of its waterpower we continue to transport millions upon millions oftons of eoal yearly from great distances,at enormous ex·pense,eapecially to our eongested centers of populationand industry,in order to generate light,heat and power,whilst untold millions of eubie feet of water are dallyrunning to waste.  \nThe history of our dealings with the natural resoureesof the State and Nation is one long story of waste,ignoranee,neglect and private exploitation,breeding andBpreading corruption and concentrating fabulous preda-tory wealth in a handful of men at the publie expense,toBay nothing of the contamination of the entire body politie.  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