The Delta independent., 1918-11-01

Last week referred to the three bills hauled up
for criticism at this time, on none of which did l
receive any word during my term of office. 1t
has been asserted that voted against the Initiative
and Referendum; against the Child-Labor law;
and for the State Consabulary. As stated last
week. think l prove to you that voted for
the best interests of the people of Delta county,
and especially the farmers.
Taking up the first bill. will say that did NOT
vote against the Initiative and Referendum. No
such bill up to be voted upon. The bill re-
ferred TO bears this title: "A bill for An Act TO
PREVENT THE ABUSE of the Initiative and Ref
erendum Powers of the People" There were
three parts to the bill: il provided for the bonding
of those who initiated bills il required that sigma
lures should be genuine and imposed penalties for
forged signatures, it proposed penalties for the
payment of money for obtaining names for pcti-
tons and il required that the title of the bill
correspond TO the body of the bill. The purpose
of this bill was to prevent Denver and the Denver
Post from initiating unnecessary prejudicial, or
dishonest bills, at great expense to the State and
many of them bearing attractive titles and being
merely tricks to get the votes of thoughtless peo-
pie the signatures to which often obtained or
forged by paid solicitors The Denver Post
the chief objector to this bill
Bill number two is also misnamed. / DID NOT
VOTE AGAINST THE CHILD-LABOR BILL; /
did vote against amendment to that law which
would have forbidden boys and girls under four
teen working in the beet fields. There is at pres
ent a Chld-Labor law which provides that chill
dren under fourteen shall not work in stores, fac
tories, elevators-in fact, fobids them working
practically everywhere excepting farms, and
boys and girls under sixteen allowed to work
at only few occupations outside the farms This
much-discussed bill (Which, by the way. in
troduced by two lawyers and was strcnuously OBJ
jected TO by the farmers and representatives of the
counties affected undertook to amend this law
by providing that boys and girls should not work
in the sugar beet fields
In the first place, it comes pretty class leg
islaton to say that boy girl may work at one
kind of farm labor and not at another In the
second place. the House had just passed Mini
Wage bill providing that this Commission
hould have power to specify, after thorough in
estigation what labor is detrimental to children's
ath, and to forbid them working in those
ions. In the third place, ] made n long trip
ugh the sugar-bee sections of Greeley, Fort
H. Sterling. and elsewhere, 10 investigate this
talked with ministers, teachers DOCTORS
s of these boys and girls, and all classes
affected. With but excepiion-a
1ker-they all said the amendment
Gated and that promptly with
ton when he learned that it
'ng legislation.
nendment backed by the pco-
ostly women who had never lived
~ eastern reformers and in my
trespass upon the rights of the
amendment had passed last
title question but that during this
IN another amendment would be add
ame people forbidding the employment
md girls in orchards anywhere on
seems to me very much of place, with
iment urging all children to help on the
rake up for the boys who have gone to
legislation forbidding them to help
wants the law to say that he can
boy to help him on his farm or on
si.J think he will say so, and he