The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-01-12

quNe some independence on our part
we are all justly proud of these in
stlullohs- AT the proper time we
shaI pass around the bouquets. Just
now We nave more serious business
We must study the whole situation and
90 what Is necessary to put these in
srtuuons into harmony with each
other. They have managed in some
way TO bring themselves into conflict
with each other. Each one has its
own specific and definite field. Why
not make an end of Implications OF
work? President Baker tells me that
the law requires him TO maintain a
normal and preparatory school He
should be relieved OF the necessity of
maintaining a high school for the city
OF Boulder and he should be relieved
from the necessity OF Offering any
work which brings the university into
conflict with the normal school. A yet
more perpleNing conflict exists be-
tween the University and the Agricul.
tural College.
The definite pledging OF our candi
dates to the enactment of local op
ton law awakened intense interest
among the best people in the state
They are, for the most part, law-abid
ing, quiet, and home-loving people
who are seldom asserting themselves
in political conventions. II is distinctly
to the credit of the state convention
of the majority party that this promise
was squarely made. | beg to remind
you that this is not what is called
sumptuary legislation. 1t is not saying
what a man shall eat and drink. 1t is
not proposing to make people good by
law. A moderate drinker or an i'm
moderate drinker can go on all his life
as he likes under a local option law
A local option law is just an applica
ton of the principle of the square deal
to the question of the open saloon. II
a majority OF the people in any com
munity want the open saloon they
have the right to have it. If major
ity of the people in any community
do not want the open saloon they have
the right to exclude it. This is a fund
amental principle in our American po
litical life. From my point of view II
seems that the vote on this subject
should be unanimous both in the
House and in the Senate. Why should
not every man in this General Assem-
bly, vote for this measure? That would
bring people to Colorado by the ten.
of thousands. That would help te
make boys and men of firm fiber
When you consider the unspeakablt
damage to character which comes
from the open saloon you cannot avoid
making haste to enact law which will
make possible the exclusion of the
open saloon from those districts where
the majority OF the people are squarely
opposed to it.
The need of insurance which insure.
demands the enactment of a compre
hensive and conservative insuranc,
law
The need of savings institution.
which calls for sound banking law
The need is clearly apparent of
state examiner with a sufficient mum
Der of deputies to make it possible fol
him to keep track of the business o
all financial institutions which handle
public funds, and to have a constan
surveillance of all state institution,
which are sustained by the taxation o
the people.
The need for good roads has at las
awakened some enthusiasm for Law
to provide for state highway commits
sion. We have gone on too long with
out any definite plan for making gooe
ioduS. olit VI lut SlOIleS OIL lIlS DIX
teenth General Assembly will doubt
less be the enactment of a good roadi
law. Good homes, good schools, ant
good roads might well be considered
to be the three essentials of civiliza
ton throughout the country district
i. our times.
Time would fail me to speak with
proper fullness about all the pledgei
which we have made to the people
such as the need Of a pure food law
the importance of giving the people az
opportunity to express their prefer
ence for candidates to the Unitet
States Senate, the need of legislation
to prevent combinations in restraint o.
trade, the need of making an end O
all mileage graft, and the necessity O.
wiping out the scandal of the vicioui
lobby. 1t ought to be an unwritten Law
with every legislative assembly tha
the use of these persistent and often
sive lobbying methods by any state in
stitution would certainly exclude tn,
name of that institution from any lis
of special appropriations.
We cannot escape the conviction
that there are many necessary things
that need to be done, because the life
of our state grows and expands every
year in a phenomenal way. We neet
to keep ourselves free from prejudice
that we may find the best ways of do
ing all the things that need to bt
done. 1t will require some courage t.
refuse to listen to the urgent demand,
that will be made upon us to under
take the things that ought not to bt
done. You are safe if you think abou
those hundreds Of thousands of plaiI
and purposeful people-the common
people-who never call you up on the
phone and never send you kilograms
or letters and never sit up with you
at your hotels and never throng the
lobbies of the state house.
This is serious business which is
committed to you and to me. We can
not do it creditably unless we have suf-
ficient breadth of view and strength of
character to keep on terms of mutual
respect. Notwithstanding occasional