Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-28
CuRE-ALIs

Did you ever iisten 10 a street fakir
who first sang n few songs and re-
peatea q few lines and cracked q few
jokes until the p0pulace. agape with
interest. were properly prepared and
then presented his pnstrum that was
reported az a sure cure for coughs,
%hrouehitia tuberculosis rte. fever and
cornss These are in every Valk 81 life
ana whoever has on ear coupled with
q creduious spirit II ready 70 buy
After Inc Wnr when the country
was just getting the fever out ~ its
system and things we're stlil in more
or less IT turmoil, political fakira as-
stunned a. dlaRnore the case and pre-
erribed fiat money hs . cure-an which
~ properly applied ~ a shin plaster
would draw out every ache and pain
from which the country suffered Peo-
pie listened 20 them agapc snd count
iem thousands took Toe dose. II was
4 cure-afi and has long since fallen in
popular favor.
a nttie lister and Within the mem-
nry ~ the most % us. political fakirs
Prescribed free trade ar o tariff for
revenue only as % sure cure-all. but
when che people paid and BE- they
found The medicine worse than the
digease and upon reflection concluded
ihat our great country was suffering
merely from growing pains and that
the cure-all which was recommended
was not really what q needed
ia 20 the quacka and street fakira
produced another compound and In
the most catchy phrases and with the
most deceptive diagrams and delusive
arguments, almost made the people
believe That tine reconciliation Of sill
Yer WAS the cause OF an Of their nls
and that the free coinage Of silver az
q fixed ratio WIS the cure-Hil. and
the people nearly took that medicine.
but they didn't and they have since
come to believe hat the cure-ali was
no good and that w. stin were sur
forlnR from growing pains.
Now the democrats OF New Mexico
are mailing ns tine latest ipfalHble
fNNNHH HN' HNIINNNNfHE NNN AtNE IHfAfN~
cudum Governmental provisions COM
paratiyely untrlod. excellent in theory
but needing the most conservative and
cautions application nre declared 90
De the absolute and final nud complete
cure for al tho ils that political flesh
Sc htlr &C.. By the application of the
Initiative and the Referendum an
problems of the new state are wiped
AWAY a. II hy magic. tho coast is clear
and aa long as We Eet Theses provisions
in the constitution ID doesn't matter
whether IL contains anything else at
aUL II we adopt the Initiative and
the Referendum. let us not adopt them
go q cure-alL The voters do NOT want
TO- be- taken in by q nostrHm hawked
about as the democratic splclsrs'
have hnwked nostrums ever since
they had O. party. The democratic
press ond the democratic orators at
once Jose their temper and rant and
cavii if b. is even suggested that the
Initiative and the Referendum need
careful consideration. or 81 H h inti-
mated that possibly t may be well TO
property safeguard these proposed
provisions of "a new constitution.
n short The vehement protests that
the Initiative and the Referendum are
the vital issue boz New Mexico and if
adopted. Will pot us on easy street
forever. ere calculated 90 make the
ordinary man renard them with sus-
piciou and investigate them carefully.