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vance the interests of the munition piants of the country nor the cause of the allies. Should you succeed in intertering with our export of *power (which we have been assured is en-- |tTirely devoted to use by the munition =p'!ams in Buffalo) our steam plants in ['Toronto will be closed down, as we 'canzmt afford to operate them at such Iirices as we can secure for power here, | __1f your object in seeking to cut off 'our export is to obtain additiona} -- 'power for the Hydro--electric Com-- mission you will find, should we be compelled to cease our Buffalo de-- ;H\'cry, that the Niagara plant will |Eenerate exactly as much as before ithe only difference being a loss in revenue to us without the advantage lof one horse--power to you. | _In its distribution of power -- this |company has more and more had lconsideration for industries engaged in the work of manufacturing muni-- tions for Britain and ber allies. A [ great power that until very recently was a neutral in this struggle has \now become an ally of Britain against the fell enemy that is trampling upon the rights of nations. This power is the United States, and from that country great supplies of muni-- tions have gone forward to Britain and other Entente nations since the war began, but now the output of American factories will be redoubled for the reason that the United States itself is virtually in the war. This company feels bound to give first preference to the manufacturing demands of munition plants no mat-- ter where situated. If it has to deny some of its customers whom it now supplies with power, if it has to cut off supnlies from certain manufactur-- ing industries that are producing articles not essential to the war, it is prepared to do that if it can there-- by help to increase the output o# munitions. I am sending a copy of this letter to the Toronto newspapers and to each member of tthle Legislative As-- bly. Yours truly, sen.'l.,(.\émnem Robert J. Fleming. } W