Arizona republican., 1912-07-15
HERE'S FOOD
 F0R THOUGHT
The Voters Time Will Not Hang Heavy on His Hands if He Digests All the Proposed Popular Legislation Before Him.

There is one thing that the new order of things is going to do for the free and untrammeled electorate of Arizona this summer, even if it does nothing else-it is going to fur nish the said free and untrammeled electorate something to think about. For, before the coming election the people of this state will have to de eide several questions that will have distinct bearing on the future of the commonwealth. This refers to the proposed constitutional amend ments provided for by the legislature and to the other propositions to be submitted by the initiative petition route.
 Three propositions arranged by the legislature will certainly be submitted at the comng election: and then there are two others that will probably be submitted The measures for which the legislature is responsible are the judiciary recall, the municipal indebt- edness measure and the measure per hitting the state and municipalities to engage in industrial pursuits. All these will come up as proposed con stitutional amendments.
 The other matters are the Kinney anti Mexican labor bill and the equal suffrage proposition. All these prop ositions will be included in thousands of pamphlets which will be prepared by the secretary of state and sub mitted to the voters.
 The judiciary recall measure occu- pied the center of the stage so long that everybody knows all about it It had gained considerable notoriety prior to the admission of the state; :; but it's fame was accentuated by the great difficulty in getting it through the legislature at the regular session. It will be recalled that the lawn 4kers had declared it's passage should be their first legislative act; but the session had worn along into the sere and yellow leaf of it's existence before all the legislative blunders had been corrected and the measure had finally been delivered over to the secretary of state.
 l Thre was q time when the proposed | judiciary recall was regarded as the most radical of the many ideas that had been proposed with reference tc the Arizona state government. But that time has long since passed. The judiciary recall and all other kinds ot recall have been doubly discounted | by Senator WOrsley's socialistiC scheme to grant to the state and mu- nicipaities the right to engage in in dustrial pursuits.
 1 There may come time when definition of the term industrial pur suits" will be a matter of consider able moment in this state. But thu common everyday acceptation of th' term is one of considerable breadth In general industrial pursuits gen orally are supposed to mean those 0 having to do with any and all form of manufacture. transportation. min ing and even of agriculture. It wOult seem, then. that under the Worsle, amendment the state and the munici palities would be empowered to d. about everything in a business wa, that an individual or a corporation may do In other words. it is abou as plain d manifestation of socialism as the most ardent socialist could de sire.
 { And. speaking of Senator WorsleH
 
 he missed becoming famous at tn Hate session of the legislature. Wors ley is one of those men who real doesn't object to seeing his name i the newspapers: and if it happen that the reporters become remiss i their duties he is always ready an willing to assist in keeping the thin going.
 WOrsley's opportunity seemed t have. arrived when his bill to amen the constitution by abolishing tn senate was up. It seems he reall had an idea that freak measure migh pass the house even as it passed tn senate. So. to get all the good pos sible out of it. MT. WOrsley,. in antici patton of the event. proceeded to
 photographer and ordered job lC of pictures of himself Just ho, many there were it is not possible { say but it is known there were a plenty. And it was all arranged b the senator from Pima county that
 the bill passed these pictures wer to be sent out to newspapers all OVt the United States. But the hous laughed the Worsley bill to death an at the same time killed that dstir guished statesman's last chance fo the acquisition of fame.
 The other proposed amendmen
 that permitting cities to assume a
 indebtedness equal to 15 per cent
 their tax valuation. was prmari
 designed for the benefit of Tucso
 Tempe and some other towns who!
 people desire to assume this indeb
 edness for the purpose of making m
 nicipal improvements. If the prop'
 sitiOn is engrafted on the cOnstitutl
 tiOn it will. of course, apply to {
 towns of that class in the state.
 The other two measures that m;
 be voted on, the suffrage matter al
 the Kinney bill, have been the SUI
 ject of so much discussion that the
 provisions are all thoroughly unde
 stood.