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For The Call's Index of the news of today see Page 3, Column 1 VOLUME CIV.— NO. 164. Look at Your Water Bill - and Vote for Hetch Hetchy The words "Collected Under Injunction" Tell the Story CITIZENS of San Francisco, it is your duty to and to San Francisco to vote for the Hetch Hetchy; bonds tomorrow. . If you have entertained the slightest doubt about that duty, LOOK AT YOUR WATER BILL. Look at your last water bill; the bill for the rate made by-. Spring Valley in defiance of the constitution. Look at the -water bill "collected under injunction." Compute, then, if you can, the amount of your obligation to Spring Valley, the yeggman private^ corporation- that has robbed you for years. You Jiayejbeen, and are being, bombarded with * reams of ex- " pensive and; fallacious "arguments," designed to show you how you will be injuredby refusing to be robbed in perpetuity by Spring Valley. If you want a conclusive answer to all those alleged "argu ments" LOOK AT YOUR WATER BILL. You have been told that the acquisition of the Hetch Hetchy , watershed and the finest municipally controlled supply of pure water in America will involve bonding San Francisco 'for $75, 000,000 and the increase of your tax rate by from 75 cents to $1. YOU KNOW THOSE STATEMENTS ARE UNTRUE. The proposition submitted to you tomorrow involves neither an in debtedness of $75,000,000 nor an increase of the tax rate. The acquisition and development of the Hetch Hetchy system c.ould not involve a total expenditure of $75,000,000 until San Francisco had multiplied its present population by three. There is a reason for those false statements. You will find it by LOOKING AT YOUR WATER BILL. i\o enemy or rletcn rietcny has included ,in his carefully : emasculated statements any items covering receipts for water con i sumed as an offset to the increased rate of taxation whicKthe has figured out on-a basis of: a bonded indebtedness of $75,000^000. Why? LOOK AT YOUR WATER BILL--the water "bill ''collected under injunction.**/ / . • - \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0 The San Francisco Call. SA^FR^GIS^ The nation^ most -experts, who have-no -private -or i ulterior purposes to serve, Kavei told you [that Hetch "Hetcliy; offers an inexhaustible supply of pure water, entirely adequate to all the future needs of San Francisco and the bay cities besides. Spring Valley tells you anonymously and otherwise that ; the - Hetch Hetchy supply Will; be inadequate. Why? : LOOK M YOUR WATER ; BlLL— the bill *x6ne^ted^underiinjunaibn.^'^^r ' • Youi renters and home owners of San Francisco, compare your old water bills for $ K7 5 a month with your present bilKfbr $4j com puted after "readjustment" and "collected under injunction/ Com pare the smallest bills you ever paid Spring Valley for impure water with the bills paid by the purchasers of good water in any other American city. You vvilMrid that you have always paid from;sQ per cent to; 1 00 per cent more for Abater than the people \u25a0of any pother, city. Look, then, at your last bill -*collected:uncler mjunction/* Yoii know that :Spring Valley's supply is inadequate. You know that Spring(Valley;has.never sold you pure water. You know that the last official analysis i of Spring Valley water shows' that its use is, at best, "dangerous.; You know Spring Valley's defective plant was responsible; for the most disastrous fire in the history^ of the modern worlds .You know that Spring^Vallej^has^ filled your hospitals and jrour^ cemeteries. You know; tKat Spring Valley/ has multiplied your insurance rate-by two and by threei Vft^knp^ further multipHcation of tnpsej rates is inevitable know that Spring Has driven insurahpetcompanies^out bfuhe local field and has prevented theadyent of "new and important^ ma^ facturing and jbbbihgiindusUies^ YouVkriovv^^t^ laws^and finally them. has; at'last thrown off its highwayman's^m^ to fix . rates. You know thatlthe;yegg^ erning you by / injunction. You know; that operating tinder: a rate which it maintained by injunction,, Spring; Valley made $260,000 last year. By charging against the receipts ? for 1 907 an item of $335,000 for replacement of its defective plant "and charging that item to- "operating" ex penses-Spring Valley -attempted to prove that it operated its worn out ditchwater plantat a loss of $68,000. These abnormal * 'oper ating -^expenses of $335;000, according to the report of President Payson, were the price of anew 7 pumping station at Ocean View, theremoval of the; Pilarcitos pipeline and an additional conduit from the San Andreas reservoir. Spring Valley ; wants no new- pumping - : station or conduits this year. Its public service disguise has been entirely abandoned^ Spring; Valley \^is /frankly : a stock jobbing -concern now: It pur poses to^ collectU3ividends^ at;the rate of .1 7 per cent on its own ridic ulous valuation: ; JAndj it is collecting those dividends by injuncr tion. LOOK AT YOUR W^ Spring Valley cbllected approximately $2,000,000 from you last year. It gave you impure water. It denied you fire protection, vlt denied you the privilege of adequate fire insurance. By "read justment and injunction^ Valley purposes to collect $2300, 000 or more from; you this year. For that $2,500,000 you are to receive; an inadequate supply of impure water. You are to be de prived of fire protection and fire insurance. ;Hetch Hetchyjis : more a promise. The acquisition of Hetcht Hetchy insures; an adequate supply of pure water. It:;iii-^ :sures^watenratesjasllpw;as the-lowest in America. Hetch Hetchy means cheap \u25a0 insurance, : adequate insurance. Hetch Hetchy insures against {government* by; injunction. ; LO^^T-Y^ under in- and vote for < San Francisco j-yoteto free yourselves f rom the clutches of \u25a0theYmpst iriipmdent corporate lthief in all: America. Vote, for your homes and * your children. Vote for Hetch Hetchy. ti/tjf^^'n^ti^Scbool Girls? Pager It : ri/rftaight /bewailed— .the new page jor \u25a0misses- wbtcif, mtb its splendidly writ" clever { illustrations} bas i*lgg£J^jjb&SfiSe. one' of \the' strongest ieat ures of l*be Sunday Call. See it next Sunday. tt^* ' PEICE FIVE CENTS.