The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-03-17

should te repealed II the great good
roads movement inaugnrated In Ohio
under the operations Of the Kite nalt'
mill levy law is to be abandoned, then
that law should be repealed.
Stop Building Good Roads7
"If the movement in behalf Of COM
munity life In the country districts IN
the state is not rooted in justice and
wisdom; If country schools are TO be
conducted as individual projects re
gardless of the small number OF pu'
pills in attendance instead of working
out consolidation and concentration,
the new school laws should be re-
pealed. II the old system of party
conventions is more responsive to
public desire and conserves in higher
degree the public interest, then the
statewide primary law should be re-
pealed. II there should be seven or
eight independent labor departments
| instead of one industrial commission,
/ then the industrial commission law
should be repealed. II there should
/ be four agricultural departments In
stead Of one, then the agricultural
commission law should be repealed.
I II the old method of writing appro-
priation bills aggregating eight to ten
millions of dollars each year is not to
give way to the modern budgetary
plan. then that law should be repeal
ed If our penal institutions shall be
conducted without regard to human
ity; If the means shall not be main
tained whereby unfortuDates in our
state institutions might be given the
opportunity to help themselves men
tally and physically and their families
financially by employment, then let
us step backward into the darkness
and repeal this law If the law giving
the people the right to remove any
public official who is delinquent in
stead of waiting two years is not
common-sense arrangement, then 1t
ought to be destroyed. II pensions
for needy mothers and the blind do
not appeal to the great heart of this
commonwealth, then these laws
should be repealed If we have been
wrong in the attempt to protect farm
ers against unsound breeding stock
and adulteraed fertiliZing and spray
ing material, then those laws should
be repealed. If the confidence game
is conducive TO good morals, and our
people should be robbed by dealers in
worthless securities. then the Blue
Sky law should be repealed
No Scandal or Corruption.
"There has been neither scandal nor
corruption in the state departments
under this administration. Both the
treasurer and auditor certify that at
the end OF the fiscal year, Feb. 16,
there remained in the treasury the
largest unincumbered balance in the
history of Ohio. The surplus at the
end of this year will be even greater
because the expenses in 1914 will be
approximately three million dollars
less than they were in 1913. The state
departments have been put on bust
ness base | have not single apol-
ogy TO offer. | have the profOundest
faith in the merit of our laws. ] know
they will demonstrate themselves,
am convinced, furthermore, that the
opposition will continue to shift its
attack First il fought the workmen
CONDENSATION law and then dropped
It. Then it opposed school reforms
and gave them up. Next the propa
ganda was directed against the
Warnes law, and within GO days il
can not show its face against the ad
ministrative results OF that measure
Mark my prediction: Criticism Of
all laws will cease by the time the
summer days are here, and the cam
paign cry will be that a machine has
been created. l welcome the issue,