The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
LYNN WILSON
 TALKS TURKEY
 AT L0C0M0BILE
Lobby Described as "White Slave Traffic in Innocence
 of Legislators
Says Corrupt Tinkering With Legislation May be Automatic ally Stopped by Initiative and Referendum

date for representative, talked to tine employees of the Locomobjle factory, at the noon hour. He said: T have not come to appeal for votes for my self or anybody else. but to advise you upon matters which in my opinion are of primary importance to our country. our state and ourselves.
 ''I shall speak not of things far off. but of matters close to us. You have been told by various speakers that you need certain remedial legislation, which you have not been able to get. Such as workmen's compensation, municipal ownership and the like.
 My friends. you must begin at the beginning. You are told that this is a peoples government. You are told that the people are sovereign. How then does it happen that you demand needed laws and cannot get them?
 Because by one device and an- your sovereignty. Because the actual government of Connecticut Is g. rail- road government, administered not the the peopIe. . but I through m the -EJs lobby. y. which is a political white slave. traffic in the innocence of those whom you elect to office
 "Your first task in this state is to get rid of railroad rule, and you can not do. that without stopping white slavery in politics.
 
 tempt any man whom you elect to office who disobeys his party pIedges, and who yields himself to the lobby.
 ''But sometimes, my friends, the temptation to yield to the lobby is more than a poor man, can resist and we ought therefore to build our ssys- the lobby from corrupting the gov ernment interests of the railroads and other interests.
 we can do this through four prime all nf which AdVneafnd in the Democratic platform. and all of which have been made law in many sovereign states.
 .sThe first of these measures is the direct primary, by which you make your own nominations direct, instead of leaving the choice to a. delegate
 <The second of the measures is the referendum. the third is the initiative and the fourth is the recall A
 The referendum permits the people to veto a law which their legislators have passed, which they do not like.
 1t has recently been applied to the scheme to plunge the city heavily into debt. You know with what result. That is the referendum.
 'The initiative enables the people to pass any, any law which the legislators initiative part of the law of the land or embodied in the constitution, the representatives of any party could stop the passage of the law, because the people would have it before the whole voting body and pass it them selves.
 eff anybody says to you that direct power over their own candidates, is not part of the proper power of the people," continued MT. Wilson, CT say to. you that the Declaration of Inde- pendence says that all powers of gov ernment are inherent in the people.
 I say to you that our own conStitu- tion in the state of Connecticut de- clares that all powers of government are inherent in the people.
 Have they been joking with the people all these years. or was Jeffer- son right when he wrote the DecIara- ton of Independence. Was the Con merry mood when it adopted our own fundamental law, or did it speak in truth and sincerity when it said that the people are the only fountain of honor, and that all the powers of government are inherent in the peo- pie?
 we would now have to complain be- cause the lobby and it's masters have deprived us of a just and promised workmen's compensation act We such as would commend itself to wis dom and justice and submit it to the voter in this very election"
 MT. Wilson here rehearsed the long list of states that has adopted the direct primaries and the initiative and referendum and continued with a cerned an office holder who breaks his pledges to the people is a bad performer no matter what his party and he promised, that if Democrats should be instructed with power, and any Democrats should break Demo cratic promises to the people, he would denounce him in the same list with crooked Republicans, crooked Socialists, or crooked Progressives.
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