The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-31
rnE INITIATIVE IN ARIZONA.

~ CR great American tendency
60 enthusiasucally ana ever
%riotously support a publ.
man or "a public measure ana then Z,
turn suddenly and e%ternuliy inmbasr
the same o. man CA measure fails q
produce each and every remedy and
benefit promised, or even suggested
has never boon moro strlkingly illus.
trated than In sister state Of Ari.
IONA. but recently an ardent and en-.
thusiastic hacker OF and clamorer Tor
the Initiative. the referendum and
the recall OF everything: and now
showing a tendency 60 hold the lnl-
%tiative alone responsible Tor every
thing Injurious hat has ever hap-
pened 90 that state.
The Phoenix Gazette, which was
one of the most strenuous advocates
OF what the Flagstan u calls "the
initiative, the glorious referendum.
the supreme recall and the God-givcn
constitution OF the glorious state Of
Arizona seems 10 have suffered an
entire change OF heart, The Gazette
In a recent editorial says
There is no doubt but the enact
ment Of those laws known as the so
per cent, an%u-blackllst, mothers PEN
sion, industrial pursuits and one or
two others, which were born through
th~ initiative, have given Arizona a
setback which viii take years to
overcome.
The initiative was thought To be-
q good thing. but from the way 90
was used 81 proved more deadly TO
those who thought 60 profit boy il
than H they had struck a floating
mine head on. The wage Garner who
lives In Arizona Is bound 10 suffer
because who on earth is going 10 hire
a man OF woman insight and unseen
or Without the privilege Of asking for
references, such a law must have
emanatcd from a man who felt that
the world was made for his special
benefit or else u was drafted by those
who expect 10 receive first class sti-
aries without the least qualification.
II the initiative is allowed 20 re-
main a mart OF opE constitution the
next law to he enacted will force all
employers to pay salaries 90 a certain
lot or number Of employees. no matter
n only half that number be needed.
An the applicant will need is "a card
saying ne Is a member Of the order
which made the law the same AZ the
full train crew law.
During the first state Legislature
n law was enacted telling the rail
roads how many men should be en-
ployed on trains. Now suppose at
the next general election. through
the initiative. the same forces enact
O. law which will require the railroads
TO keep a sort OF lookout on the COW
catcher and a brakeman for everS
six box cars IN the train, claimini
such law was being enacted for th'
safety Of life and limb. such a law
would be just as sensible or as jusI
as the SO per cent, blacklist or moth.
ers' pensions laws.
1T looks now as IL Inc initiative
8 being used only for the purpose
OF destroying tho development Of Ar
iona. Therefore Il behooves al
voters in the state 20 acquaint them.
selves with the laws referred 10 ant
then prepare 20 repeal the agency
through which they were made pos.
lsible by the initiative"
Governor Hunt, now, takes a mor'
conservative view OF the situation
just because the initiative as operat
ed in Arizona has not proven an a.
friends claimed for Il, the %governo.
declines 20 stand for the discreditinl
OF the principle involved. The inl
%tiative, the governor says, is all right
THE trouble Is that in Arizona Il ism
working right yet. Which might b
said OF a Iot Of advanced legislation
n Is proposed, approved and place'
ON the statute books without sufi.
Client ana often without any attention
al an as 10 is. machinery, its opera
tion or as to how far or which wa