The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-14
WHO SHALL RULE
IN NEW STATES
CORPORATIONS OR THE PEOPLE
is THE ISSUE IN NEW MEXICO
AND ARIZONA.

Phoenix, Ariz. July 13.-To rule a
s-ate in this age OF judge rule. you
must write its constitution.
The working people want 10 rule
this new state. Gathering in confer
ence here on call of Bisbee local lO6
OF the Western Federation of Miners,
they have launched a campaign TO
elect a majority of their number as
delegates TO the coming constitution
al convention. They hope their rep
sentatives will ouJnumber the San
ia Fe, Southern Pacific and other cor
/ porations lawyers, and secure for the
new state OF Arizona the most liberal
constitution in the union.
( Here are some Of the startling
things mentioned as possible proyis-
ions of the state constitution:
Universal and equal suffrage for
all men and women; amendment Of
the constitution TO be by majority
vote of the people, on the initiative
of either the Legislature or the peo-
pie; initiative referendum and recall;
/ legislature 10 consist of but one
house; property to be taxed at its
full value; state TO have power to
take over property at its assessed val
uatiOn; state TO have right to engage
in business; state to have right TO
seize property of any person, partner
ship firm, company or corporation
which violates the law: laws to be
declared unconstitutional only by
vote of the people; state TO defray eX-
penses of defense as well as prose
cution; abolition of free system in
courts; short terms for judges, six
months residence necessary to qualify
citizen to vote; no law to be passed
to limit the citizens right to vote;
no fee system in election or primary
law. government by enacted law, and
not by injunction; employers liabil-
! ity.
Labor speakers CT national reputa-
| ton will tour this state, and New
| Mexico as well, to urge the people to
elect delegates who will make a con-
stitution which will permit the rule
of the people.
Congress dominated by big busi-
ness foresaw this movement and pro
vided that Arizona and New Mexico
should not be admitted to the union
unless they adopt constitutions ap-
proved by the president and ratified
by congress. But the labor element
prefers the postponement Of state
hood, rather than the chains of a plu-
tocratic constitution, which other
states have found hard to strike off.
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ample skirts OF fashion. The hoop
skirt was more indestructible than
a superstition and the reason for
that comes out at its inventors
death. Mr.. Thomas invented a secret
process for tempering the stee.
used in them, until it became more
1.-the and sinuous than a snake, as
elastic as a political conscience and
as unbreakable as Tammany Hall
The fashion of ample skirts may
by some freak be revived. Let US
hope that the Thomas method Of
| tempering hoop steels to everlast-
| ing endurance has died with is
| inventor. 1t is bad enough to build
| houses on filled ground whose foun-
dation is tin cans and coal ashes
| If an exploring householder We're to
run his spade into the remnants
of one of Thomas indestructiblc
contortions of wire, he might well,
in disgust, give up gardening am
the ghost together.-Brooklyn Eagle.