East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-11-28
TO THE VOTERS AND COMMON PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF
PENDLETON:

TO THE VOTERS AND COMMON PEOPLE OF The CITY OF
PENDLETON:
Have you read the Commission Government which will
be submitted to for approval or rejection Monday!
Do thoroughly understand its complex and evasive
vsons9
Have YOU given it the same careful considerations scrutiny
study would deed bond binding and
money for years and years!
Then read, and carefully that Commission Government
Charter.
Do you Mr. and Mrs Common People your voting power
curtailed, abridged or taken away from you
Then vote for the Commission Government Charter.
you arstocracy wherein you shall
grounds what shall be provided what shall be provided
you your families drink what bonds
ments shall be made or not made!
Then for the Commission Government Charter.
Do you, Mr. Workingman and you Mrs. Workingwoman
little savings earned by hard toll and self dena invested
little home to which have received abo
other liens shall be placed against that little home
taken from denied you because of the landed
moneyed adstocracy!
Then vote for the Commission Government Charter.
Do you Mr. People, lifelong earnings gone
rearing educating and maintaining family of boys and girls the
finest blood of this great land you whose citizenship and
qualifications for passing sound judgment the vital questions of
city with the exalted you whose only
sin that instead of getting rich and lands have
do form government where your voting power will be
par with the disenancised negro you
Then vote for the Commission Government Charter
DO you wish establish city for
by the astocras in which voting curtaed and almost
wholly taken from and which the power conferred take
from you entirely!
Then vote for the Compission Government Charter.
Do you arisocracy beaurocracy power
to itself forever draw the class line and the cast ne
with the powers of Gar enfrancse those whom and
entranchie those whom it hates
Then for the Commission Government Charter
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tiatve referendum and recall crtaied restricted entirely de-
MED you and taken away from you9
Then for the Commission Government Charter
Do want entru the affairs of the city who
afford make the election his other business and
devote all his time and talents the affairs of the city for 800
month
Then for the Commission Government Charter
Do want to further enrus the affairs and of
e Guy 10 TWO VINO can afford to make the secure
election and devote their entire time to the city affairs for the
of s75 month";
Then vote for the Commission Government Charter.
Be reasonable Cut out the sounding oaory out the
nice legal turning twisting and prang and right down to brass
lacks
Commission Form of Government? What does it do?
What does it confer and commissioners
keen the public them constantly when all
the business of the city transacted and above board the
which the representative of the press of the public the
people informed the next day of everything that happened how
I it happned and who was responsible for it
Can the press OF the people keep and two
who have stated hours for ancng the % bus
ne who meet midnight and ordinances resolutions
place power unlimited salaries discharge employees
s whatever?
Read that Commission Government Charter.
If you do understand its many and various wndins twist
ing subeug legal phrang and okers take it lawyer and
pay him big fee for interpreting language you
derStand for it is first last and all the time lawyers charter it
made by lawyers for the benefit Of lawyers and its adoption
would bring them business fees and them
aared positions than would hoacust of homocide
The Commission of Government may be all right in theory
but application tried Baker City, Waa Waa Portland
Tacoma and many other cities has proven practicable
Why upon unknown watersg
When the people Commission Government people
draft the charter and accept offered them for nothing by
bunch of politicians.
Pendleton enjoying prosperity improvement and
advancement known before in its history Can the
Pndeton afford to risk experiment this me9 Wait