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producing changes in the cost of the energy which will lead to the centralization of production and distribution in the interests of economy to both producer and consumer, which must have a very great effect in the development of the industrial interests of such states as Illinois. It is today not only a possibility but an actuality that the same advantages that we enjoy in large communities can also be enjoyed by the farmer, by the rural community, by the neoole having large areas to drain; the same privileges of low cost of energy can be obtained for them as are obtained for the users of energy in the large centers of polulation. If you will trace back the development of the large manufacturing centers in this country, the early man~ ufaoturing centers, you will find that the workshop and the mill were established where cheap power could be obtained, and until the last few years the only places where cheap power could be obtained were on streams where hydraulic development was possible. The. great manufacturing estabtheir foundation largely to lishments of New England owed this cause. Suppose any very small community anywhere in the thickly populated territory of the Mississippi Valley is able to obtain energy for manufacturing purposes at low cost. Assuming that in those communities the manufacturer can obtain the necessary labor, it stands to sense that one of the great troubles of modern life will be solved. At the present time large manufacturing interests as a rule
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