The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-13

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plant the government of the United
states. These are the men who over
even the man of Teeth and Blood.
Colonel Roosevelt and caJoled
him into breaking u law, Of, the ma
tional government when he was presl-
dent i'm the Tennessee Coal & Iron
companys sale to the monopoly.
These were cited as instances of tho
lembezzlement of power
The case Of our corrupted city
councils and state legislatures-our
indicted Diegles, Huffmans, Nyes,
Cetoncs, Andrew were given as Illus
trations of the embeZzlement Of pow
eI. 1t is these outrages and infamies
which we seek to correct by the lni-
tiative and the Referendum. AS for
the speaker, he wanted these strong
Instruments and implements of pow
er to lay up as club or rather as
val ave to prevent corruption. If the
people insist on holding the reins Of
power in their own hands their repres-
entatives cannot sell out because
they will not be able to turn over to
monopollstic corruption any goods.
on the matter of the regulating the
liquor traffic the speaker believed he
had the only honest platform-that Is
10 submit to .ithe voters two pro-
| positions, one as the temperance peo-
rle would draw IT and the other a
license proposition and let the maj
ority decide the issue. He was will
ing to argue the justice OF that prO-
u Osition before a Distillers' Congress
or Prohibition convention. The pro-
position to submit only proposition
for license or no license he held TO
be a trick, a fraud, an unfair amend
ment and one unworthy a respectable
statesman's consideration. 1t offered
the great segment OF temperance
cters nothing.
on the subject of new and inter-
osting problems of Constitutional
amendment the speaker discussed
tie Short Ballot, Governors Model
Cabinet suggestion bringing in the
llcXibility of the British system in
making the chiefs secretaries and
heads Of departments members of the
Legislative body, better recognition OF
our educational interests In the Con-
sttutlon.
Change of the jury systems to al
lowing II verdict by three-fourth
vote was thought an Improvement.
The speaker said he believed that
good opinion was gravtating towards
female suffrage.
The next speaker was Rev. Rourke
cf Marion. He first spoke Of the
growing interest which is being mani
Tested in the initiative and referen-
dun all over the state. At Il synod
Of the Presbyterian church recently
held in Mansfield men from nearly ev-
cry county in the state spoke with
great earnestness about this great
question and declared it to be one of
the paramonent issues IN their home
towns. And so great Is the impor-
tance of this question that we should
all be talking and thinking about 1t.
We must decide whether we stand
with the people in this fight for the
ule of the popular will or whether
we prefer to remain in the power OF
selfish and wicked officials.
The speaker wished that great fer
vor might be arounsed in the defense
of right in the present liquor figAt-
particularly among ltae citizens of
the out lying villages of the county.
Without them the cause is lost and
IL they will think of the destruction
and poverty caused by the liquor
habit they cannot but work to ward
fl the impending evil Rev. Rourke
recently visited a boys reform school
and every one of the twelve boys who
were then waiting for parole told him
that drink was the cause OF his fall
These boys were not degenerates eth
er morally or physically. They were
fine looking set of boys as could be
found anywhere. One boy In particular
impressed him as showing promise Of
"a brillian future II his progress were
not retarded by further temptations
10 indulge in drink.
Much of the work which good citi.
zens will do in this fight must be
directed toward polling the fun vote
There Is no doubt but that a glorious
victory would he gained If this could
he done for the forces of good are
always superior to the forces of evil
IL they can be mustered In.
j. l.. Hun, Rev. A. L. Baumgartner,
Rev. Woodworth and Rev. Chaplin
make strong and stirring speeches in
dorsing the previous speakers Views
and urging the people to push the
fight for local option
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