Arizona republican., 1910-09-06
M. A. GUNsT CIGAR COMPANY

question and were adopted. You see this is likely to happen at any time where public questions of d contra dictory character are referred to the whole people of a state.
 The result was that since nobody was quite certain where the salmon industry was at. many violations of the law followed for what the law was was uncertain. Many men were arrested and the courts were called upon to help untangle the tangle. For a while a salmon was uncertain whether it was lawful to enter the mouth Of the Columbia river at all. and if he should. whether he should enter head or tail first and whether he should swim on his side or back and whether, since it was unlawful for a fisher to catch him on Sunday, that meant that he should himself refuse to get anywhere on the Sab bath day.
 THE PRESENT MESS.
 Itlt ilt ilOh ltlAbAli1 III ,A' gon thirty-two different laws before the people to pass upon at the No vember election, besides the ordinary duty of electing a full set of county and state officers. If a man passes upon all these candidates. and there will probably be a full hundred names on the ticket. he will do well if he does it intelligently by remain ing in the election booth fifte n min utes. IT he consumes this much time there will not be time enough for half the voters in the state to get to the polls and into the election booths Then there are these thirty two laws to be considered besides. The result can be sen at a glance, To he sure this system provides for the publication of q campaign pam phlot which shall contain a copy of each of these proposed laws, together with an argument both for and against them by their friends and enemies to be mailed to every voter in the state. but this is even more absurd and impractical than the other feature of the initiative hum bug, for, as experience has shown, not one in ten of the voters ever reads ten lines of these pamphlets. He has neither the time nor the in clination to do so, and comes to the polls in a bewildered state of mind and goes a. it blindly, cuts here and slashes there at random. or else votes against the entire lot, which is gradually becoming the custom in Oregon out of the demands of sheer self defense.
 There are nine propositions to di- vide counties in Oregon upon which the people of the entire state are re- quired to pass in November. matters which should be left entirely to the people of the local sections directly interested, but the voters of Baker county are required to say whether a slice of Douglas county shall be attached to Lane though the two counties are 500 miles apart and the liar to the people of the other as are those prevailing in the most dis tant county of Arizona.
 Absurd? That's just the word. | Impracticable? It is worse. It is 1 un republican, UT American, cumber- ! some and contradictory. But the i thing about it here in Ari- l zona is that there should be an effort ! on the part of anybody to inject 1t ' into your present contest when 1t is | almost sure to prevent your admis- i son as a state if it should be made | a part of your constitution. Why | hA t.. D freak until you become your own | man Wait until you are of age | and then if you insist upon doing an ! absurd thing you will at least find | less opposition but the effort serious i lv made now might result in an in- definite postponement of your arri- | val at your majority. Don't you be- lieve this is worth thinking about | and tsat new is the time2'