Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-11

pany Of business mon and citizens
whose business purpose 10 to oppose
saloons and illegal liquor selling In
Marshall county, wishes to have 1t
clearly understood that the work Its
900 canvassers have been doing has
not been in the interest Of any candi-
date Every canvasser was expressly
i instructed not to talk politics. Their
purpose was to find out before the city
election on March q what voters
! would not sign a saloon petition since
the saloons may circulate a petition OF
/ consent based upon the poll lists OF
that election. In fact they must circu-
| late one or go out of business July I
| and the anti saloon association could
not afford to wait until the saloons
We're at work TO find out where people
stood on the question. With the In
alton now at hand the poll list of
the election March 81 can be checked
and the anti-saloon people will know
in few days afterwards whether a
saloon petition could secure majority
of the voters on that poll list. The
| anti-saloon people, in their association.
have decided to fight out the saloon
question on the petition of consent and
keep it out Of the city election
OF course. it has been ten years
since the sewage disposal plant was
built and there must be a second
growth of timber about ripe for cut
ting.
II has been argued by some that the
new commission plan of city govern
tnrnt IS proof against crookedness In
, office and that therefore. even if there
is some ground for doubling the in
tegrity of candidate. there need be
no fear. so long as everything is Sc
curely nailed down by the provisions Of
the commission plan. This is about as
comfortable a feeling as having a burg
lar in the house when YOU know that
II would be against the law for him
20 steal. The facts are that the COM
mission plan merely concentrates re-
sponsibility upon three men instead OF
distributing II among eight men. II a
majority of the three or only two
should be corrupt their opportunity for
crookedness would be far greater than
We're they merely two among eight.
Sometimes even one man can stop
steal by making a noise about il and
We have a larger chance to get one
such man among eight than among
three
TIE principle Of the commission plan
is To secure efficiency and businesslfke
conduct Of public affairs by putting the
city's business in the hands Of three
men and holding them responsible for
all that is dope. If We get three honest
and efficient men we will get greatly
improved government. If we get even
one or two untrustworthy men we have
taken the same chance as tho we had
made them trustees Of a large estate
for our children. We have TIE recall.
TO be sure. bu. somebody must take it
upon himself to catch the commissioner
in the corrupt act and then get one
fourth 81 the voters 70 sign a petition
20 hold recall election II would be
almost as easy 10 have the official in
dicted ard sent to Jail Legislation
can be initiated by the voters ard re-
ferred for approval - them but some
| body must again volunteer TO do the
initiating and then get $50 votes to
sign a petition.
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