Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-06-11

who takes the ballot and votes indis-
criminately either for all the measures,
or against all the measures, with no
regard for the merits of each. Friends
of the initiative and rei cendum law,
and the friends of good government
generally will advise that every voter
exercise a discriminating Judgment,
favoring the good and opposing the
bad. This ought not be expecting
too much from citizens enjoying a re-
publican fosm of government in a
State that has had universal free
schools for generation 8.
Boiled down, the questions to de-
eide this year in the order as they
will appear on the ballot are as fol-
lows:
1. Do you, or do you not, want
taxation questions handled by the
general assembly only, or by popular
vote too?
2. Do you, or do you not, want to
permit Kansas City to own its public
utilities?
i 8. Do you, or do you not, want the
State to levy mill tax for use in inn
Iproving public roads?
4. Do you, or do you not, want to
make the salary of member of the
legislature one thousand dollars
year?
5. Do you, or do you not, want to
give st. Louis debt-making power to
build or buy a subway for the purposes
of rapid transit?
6. Do you, or do you not, want to
give voters of special or general
road district power by majority vote
to levy a local tax for good roads?
z. Do you, or do you not, want the
State to provide pensions for the de-
serving blind?
8. Do you, or do you not, approve
of making it easier for Kansas City
and st. Louis to amend their char
ters?
9. Do you, or do you not, wish to
fix by law the number of men rail-
road company shall employ to make
a "full crew. for operating certain
trains?
10. Do you, or do you not, approve
making the county the basic unit for
regulating the liquor traffic?
II. Do you want st. Louis or the
State of Missouri to name the excise
commission that administers the liquor
laws applicable in that city?
| 10. Do you want st. Louis or the
State to name the police commission
that controls the metropolitan police
department of that city?
| The Words, eyes,, No,'' will ap-
pear on the ballot opposite each of
these measures. The voter that
scratches out the 'sYes'' votes against
the proposition. He who marks out
the "No" votes in favor of the PROPOSE
tion. All the propositions this year
are SO simple school boy can UNDER
stand them. Each measure may be
remembered by its number, or may
be recognized by its ballot title. The
number, title and full text will be
found on the ballot, but no voter is
| expected to wait till he gets in the
voting booth to read the full text.
The man that waits till that hour to
acquaint himself with tho text then
, in order to decide which way to vote,
better entirely ignore the constitu-
tional ballot and refuse to vote any
part of it. Intelligent Judgment is the
bulwark of good popular government
information disseminated and digest
ed increases intelligence and aids
.. Judgment as expressed by the ballot.
In the great work of arousing public
sentiment on current issues, I crave
the activity and assistance of the
. press of the State, for the news
papers are the teachers of the masses
and the corner stone of the comm on
wealth. On them rest the progress
and perpetuity of every republic.
: CORNELIUS ROACH.