Evening journal., 1914-10-28

compensation for actual capital in
vested and employed, the people who
grant the franchise and encourage
the enterprise as patrons have the
right to claim the protection of the
government from any eXorbitant
rates for service rendered and from
any suppression therefrom.
am, therefore. in favor of such
legislation, and II ! should be elected
/ would give my best support 30 these
measures. What would you do as to
this need in the event Of your cleo
tion7
3. There is need for new legisla-
ton to make more effective our prim-
airy laws for free choice by every
voter OF our candidates for Office, so
as to hinder. so far as possible, the
influence OF the party boss giving or
ders The use of money TO corrupt
! the electorate ought TO be stamped
out by law and It's enforcement The
/ Initiative. Referendum and Recall
are proposed methods TO safeguard
/ popular rule. and I am In favor OF
{ these instruments TO that end being
placed in the hands OF the sovereign
people to remedy evils in law and in
administration. The release Of every
sovereign citizen so that his voice ana
vote shall have the chance to equal
the voice and vote OF every other
citizen is my theory for popular gov
ernment. believe in a thoroughly
untrammelled citizenship. The bal
ance OF power is always competent to
be exercised by the good citizens with
the untrammelled ballot in their
hand.
would, II elected TO the State
Senate. give the strength of my per-
sonality TO the support of this pro-
posed legislation. carefully and wise
/ ly drawn. What would you do If you
we're placed in the Senate by tic will
OF the people?
/ The Liquor Traffic.
4. am opposed to the liquor traih
for moral and social reasons as well A.
! economic reasons. shall here discus
: the economic reasons only. The lquo
traffic is consumer. not a producer
it is destroyer p' property values no
an uuhuildcr of them; IL Is wastct
not conscrver Of anything valuable
/ When the dollar passes over the salooi
bar 10 the seller of drinks. what doe
the buyer, standing on the opposite sid
receive IN its place, of any meterla
value for himsclfY What of value doe
he carry home 20 his family Ii D
paws for shoes or bread or mea. a
clothing or coal, he has something tina
serves him and his family well, an
equal. as the markets go to the pric
paid for them. lie. has nothing in tll
former case. And what is true for on
dollar going over the saloon bar an
the evil thing returned for it is pre-
ciselv true Of the two billion dollar
spent for alcoholic consumption in thi
nation. II is all waste Of materi'
Naues.
II is TO stop this mad econom
waste. 10 give the least OF my rcason
that | favor all temperance legislatio
Of every sort. II | should be electc
TO the State Senate, | would give taitl
ful support to all proposed measures
DESTROY in our commonwealth this co
ossal destroyer. would fight the u
: submission proposition for Kent an
Sussex. and ! would favor any propose
; measures 60 make rural New Cast
and the city OF Wilmington dry, in fac
the whole State dry. What would yo
do for this cause as member OF a
. senator l would remind you that tn
First Senatorial district has a maiorii
, favorable 10 this last stated propos,
legislation and is entitled TO be so re-
resented
These are some. as | have said, Of Il
issues that appcal 10 me for legislatio
am free 20 say. however, that ! a
favorable 70 all reform legislation th'
! tends to make more good citizens an
: make them better circumstanced m
! happier.
Il is not only true that the peop
have a right TO know what we favor
E legislation. but We have a reasonab
right to expect the support of tho
2 who favor even 10 the point Of our r.
5 ceiving support Of people in other parl
! camps in this hctter day OF intclligcn
and independent voting.
:. II should be elected 10 the Sta
T senate. IL will be trpc that NO seer
T pledges ot any sort have been sougl
p for or made; and il is Just as well
= say here that no pussy looted pari
+ boss. seeking special favor for spcci
: interests inimical 20 the people. and l
lobbying hired attorney Of his nee