Arizona republican., 1910-09-07
SECOND TO G0DL|NEss
Soap Has Been Made a Means of Grace for the Salvation of Arizona. The High Priests Curious Notions of the U. s. Su- preme Court.

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 himself or has permitted himself to be | heralded as the High Priest of PeO- ple's Rights and most noted lecturer | on progressive government in Amer | ica."
 IL is a natural cause of embarrass- i ment to those who have never heard of 1 the name of John z. White to admit | their previous ignorance of his exist i istence. But such persons may plead that they are not alone in their ignor
 ance of John z. White. for rotwith l standing his exalted title of High Priest of Peoples Rights" Who's Who in America has never heard of him. That publication is evidently not as complete has has been hitherto sup posed. II has pr1fessed to contain the name and brief biography of every citi- zen of America who is worth while, who has distinSIished d himself in art. literature, the professions or in any honorable calling. l. is the boast of tne publishers of Who's Who" that no noted man in America has escaped. Yet in the list of 24,924 names comprised in the latest edition of "Who s Who" there is an aching void where the
 
 lecturer" should be.
 Still. it is difficult to lodge success fully a charge of lack of thoroughness against Who's Who" in tho matter of searching for noted persons. IL has found thirty-three in Arizona alone. e.
 But the information concerning this High Priest which Who's Who" has withheld from a palpitating world is supplied by the Arizona Gazette. from which it is gathered that the expenses of the High Priest are defrayed by a fund contributed by a multi-million aire soap manufacturer. Hence John /. White may not unreasonably be considered to be the apostle of direct legislation and soap. The character and consistency of the soap which has creased the way for the coming of the High Priest is not described by the Gazette but soft soap is frequently employed on errands such as this on which the High Priest has come.
 But the soap multi-millionaire is not the only plutOcrat which has lent an impetus to the movement of John Z White athwart the country. He says: Tn California pr. John R. Haynes. | ti-millionaire, is president of the state direct legislation league" It is not stated what product is being ex- plotted by the High Priest for Dr. |, Haynes.
 The High Priest had hardly left the | train which had the honor of bearing l him to Phoenix before he began to | eXude wisdom. What a smeary ole | aginous meeting it must have been ! when soap met soap in the Gazette | sanctum. Within tep minutes he had | diagnosed the disease of Arizona and | had prescribed the remedy which he | was certain could leave no ill after effect
 The pretense." says the High Priest, ] that the constitution will be turned | down by congress if it contains an ini- | tiative and referendum provision is ! absurd. If congress sat down on direct legislation it would give the democrats | more campaign thunder To think or the president trying to prevent today | what the people might do tomorrow is i too silly to discuss"
 This being settled the High Priest ! told how it worked in Oregon:
 Direct legislation has been sue l cess in oregon. Every law except one. | presented to the people could be under stood on reading and the voter was ready to vote yes or no" They l turned down a law increasing the pay of legislators, and a law increasing the members of the supreme court. They voted for an appropriation for the state university and at the same tlme turned down an appropriation of S1OO,- 900 for state armories. For twenty years the fisheries industry needed protection, but the legislature refused to do anything. Under the initiative one set of rival fisheries petitioned for law sewing up the fisheries down the river, and the people down the river petitioned for a law sewing up the fellows up the river. The people passed both laws, sewing them both up. This is cited as showing how peo- pie act under the initiative. The next legislature was forced to pass law that it ought to have passed twenty years before. But for the initiative the matter would still be in dispute and the fisheries unprotected"
 In the foregoing the High Priest be- trays Iooseness of speech and a very superficial knowledge of the legisla- | ton in Oregon to which he refers.
 In the first place every man of sense except high priests knows that very few laws are understood even by very | intelligent men on a mere reading. | Even trained lawyers are not content with a mere reading of a law They | give apparently simple laws time-con- suming study.
 As to the oregon appropriation for the state university which referend- dunn sustained, Governor Geer pointed l. to that in his speech on Monday night as showing the ill-effect of the refer endum That was law which had