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Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

In Witness Whereof. I have hereunto
set my hand and affiNed the Great Seal
of the state OF Colorado at the city of
Denver. this 18th day OF September. A
u. 1890.
JAMES r SoI.AND.
tSeaD Secretary of State.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01
COX FOR LABOR

What Cox has done for the work.
men Of Ohio as governor he pledges
himself to do on n larger scale for the
workmen of America.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

In Witness Whereof. I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Great Seal
Of the state Of Colorado, at the city Of
Denver. this 18th day Of September. A.
JAMES r. NoLAND,
(SeaD Secretary Of state.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

Amendment to Section
II OF Article X OF the
State Constitution pro-
viding that the General
Assembly may authorize
a. additional levy never
TO exceed one mill for
the support and better
ment Of the State Edu.
cationai Institutions.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

PROPOSED Law OF THE STATE OF
COLORADO, INITIATED ~ R6Tl.
TlON UNDER THE 1ulTIAETVD
AND REFERENDUA.
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General election. - b. held On the
Second day. Of November, A. D. l0Se,
there viii b. submitted TO the quail.
fled electors Of the state Of ColSrado.
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Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

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Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

Providing for the Con-
temporancous Construc-
tion OF the Moffat. Mon
arch and San Juan Tun-
nels Through the Conti-
mental Divide and Pro-
viding for the Issuance
Of Bonds Therefor.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

FISH TAGS AT News-Champion
Office.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

AN ACT CREATING YES
THE COUNTY OF IL
FLAGLER No
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

PROPOSED AMENDMENT To THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
COLORADO. INITIATED NY PCTI-
TION UNDER THE INITIATIVE
AND REFEnENDUM.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

First publication, August n, 1920.
Last publication, October 20, 1890.
Gunnison news-champion., 1920-10-01

roeary u said Conmioa1oo a1A ~.
proved ~ the state Au1tein6 DoNr6.
I1tersst upon bonds lesusA 70 buiid
said tunneis accruing during the Pc
countsd g part Of Tie cost q sAs Son.
struction.
Section s.a: All revenue Of any kind
arising from the use Of said tunuela
shall be paid into the STATE Treasury
and shall be used only for the payment
Of the interest upon the bondst and for
shs SsS. esoetiSn re- .p Of .snkicy fssd 70 pro-
Of said bonds.
II the amount realised or likely TO
be realised from the use Of said tun.
nels during any year Be. or appear 70
the G~ommissioH ~ 70 be inssff!cisnt e
ana % psyaSis and tSe 0Inss rroserssenass srae Sas
amount Of the sinking fund for their
retirement, that fact shall be certified
by said Commission to the Governor,
who shall thereupon advise the Cen.
BY is hereby suthorissd and dirscted
to levy = tax therefor, in edition TO
the other levies authorized py the Con-
stitution, not to- exceed one mill ON
each dollar. Of the assessed valuation
Shall se u.ed only fo1 e. inSn paymsst ssssd cf
the principal and interest ON said bonds,
and only In case the amount reAiige6
from the use Of eaid tunnels shSll -
inhufflcient therefor. =
The state Irsasurer nay. With the
any part Of the sinkins fands thSs
: created for the purchaee kefore mAtuf.
ity Of the bonds auther11ed ~ this
I Section s-a: For the eayryfng into
effect OF the provtst0no OF thko a0onls
ment. ~ well - the prov1slens Of he
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Platforms Called
Snares for Voters
Set With Promises
Republican Party Advised
to Go Before American
People Standing Firmly
on Sense and Honesty

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What this country now needs
most fer recovery and progress is along
the following lines:
1. Become genuinely American. A
real and virile nation can help others;
fabby and non-coherent tumble of
units has no helping power and is not
nation.
2. First of all, retur to constitu-
tional government and stay there.
8. Reduce taxation. This means cut
ting expenditure to the bone of abso-
lutte necessity.
4. Awake from the folly of expect
ing government to do things for" the
people; to heal and improve itself
is quite task enough. Introduce "busi-
ness" into it, but stop its meddling
with business.
5. Stop chasing corporations and
abandon the bugaboo notion that size
and success imply robbery. Attack the
cost of living by restoring abundance
s. Tell labor TO organize for indus
trial production and to level upward.
not downward. Tell it to stop hobbling
the skillful and ambitious worker by
tying him with the dullard, the drone
and the grumbler
7. Stop angling for any solid "vote."
Take counsel Of courage
8. Trust the sober final thought OF
the American people. We have been
behaving like decapitated hens, but we
are not yet hopeless fools.
8: Platforms are traps set for voters.
with promises" as bait The party
that cuts out all that and takes its
stand openly on sense and honesty will
get next the center pole in the Novem-
Der race. INOUISITION.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
legislative BARGAINING in Senate and House Condemned
To-Day's Prize Letter

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: New problems seldom arise
in single day, nor do they spring
spontaneously out Of nothingness.
The failure of government properly
to function at any point nay allow
the germ Of discomfort to grow and
spread its virus through the whole
political blood Of the nation, work
ing final dissolution Of the body
polite.
Armed bands Of retainers, bravos
and private fortresses became obso-
letevonly when governments had re-
placed their necessity with courts of
justice to decide or forestall private
brawls. Strikes, lock-outs, boycotts,
extortionate prices, unrest, combina-
tions for physical or economic wars
will cease only when government has
removed their necessity or profit
through the establishment of tri-
bunals for peaceful trial and deter
mination of controversies which must
necessarily arise through economic
and industrial contact and conse-
quent friction.
It is the duty Of the Republican
party in the face of the present
situation to demand and secure the
functioning Of government with re-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16

spect to these economic and indus
trial controversies, and no longer
to leave their determination to the
chance Of trial by battle.
The future of America depends to-
day upon the peaceful industry Of
her own people more than upon
any other element, and it cannot be
expected that the highest efficiency
can be reached, nor peace and tran
quillity prevail, while great portion
of the citizenship is forced through
lack Of better means to spend its time
and energy in the preparation for set
tlement by it's own force of con-
troversies which involve its very live
lihood. Such state of mind is not
conductive to industry.
By the coming Republican Admin
istration must be evolved the neces-
sary machinery for the peaceful solu-
ton Of these economic and indus
trial controversies, however arising,
II we are to return to peace and
sober prosperity, unmixed with con-
ficts among our own people, and
attendant general loss. Nothing less
will save US from ourselves.
ALLYN COLE,
Speaker, House Of Representatives,
Denver, Col.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Politicians Tongue-Tied
On Prohibition, He Says
Writer-Asks if They Are Para.
lyzed With Fear of Anti.
Saloon I.eao1,e
he Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In reading the various letters
on The Tribune's platform contest
page and the recent uteerances of pol
iticians have noticed a tendency in
most cases to side-step the really i'm
portant issues and to substitute others
about which the people care nothing
at all
Chief among these omissions is the
prohibition question. The politicians
of both parties, with few exceptions,
seem to be tongue-tied, if not actually
struck dumb, SO far as this subject is
concerned. Is it that they are
para iyzed with fear of the all-power-
full Anti-Saloon League?
The self-satished gentlemen of the
latter very efficient organization will
tell you that prohibition was made
part of our fundamental law at the ex-
pressed will of the nation. Was there
ever such sophistry? Only mention
the word referendum" to these moral
gentlemen and they will answer with
shrieks of righteous Indignation.
am of the opinion that the Rcpub-
lican party will act most wisely if it
will frankly avow its policies on all i'm
portant issues, prohibition included
The Republican party is the historic
party of law and order and common
sense, but the welfare of the people
is above the welfare of any partv.
W. II. G..
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Old Township
Rule Favored
In Government
System by Which Every
Property Owner Will PAY
His Share of Community
Expense Needed in Nation
Too Much Experimenting
Changes of Business Pol.
icy at Washington Adj
yanced as New Theory

10 the Editor of The Tribene.
Sir: Has it ever occurred to Won that
the business administration of the
united States government has been
since its inception a series Of cost1v
experiments? Each Of the major par
ties has had numerous four and some
times eight year periods to Nry out
their theories, some of which have been
more disastrous to the country than
others.
The successive political changes have
made a change in the system of con-
duct of the country's business affairs.
There should be changes Of manage
ment and changes of business policy
as progress and changing conditions
require but there is only one way to
successfully handle a business whether
it is large or small, and that is to take
in more than is paid out.
Ny suggestion is that perhaps both
the Democratic and Republican parties
in looking around for sound example
looked an established form of govern
ment, which since the days when this
country was colony has been a
proved success, the township govern
ment of old New England.
This form of government yearly
takes an inventory of assets in the
form of taxable property within it's
borders. 1t then, by its board Of man
agement, prepares careful and ac-
curate budget of expenditures, and at
town meeting called for the purpose
lays a tax which will provide the neces-
sary funds to carry out the budget
Every property owner pays his share
of the community expense and at the
same rate. This system is simple, eff
fective and economical and is not an
experiment. and l believe should COM
this eountry's business for the next
four years. J. II. L.
Litchfeld, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Private-Owned Utilities
Upheld for Nations Good

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The costly experiment in the
government operation of the railroads
has proved conclusively that this coun-
try is not yet ready for state-owned
public utilities. The meager salaries
paid under government control re-
moves the incentive to the best pos.
sible effort on the part of those who in
the past economically administered the
affairs of the railroads.
The private ownership of the rail-
roads under adequate control is de-
sirable also in providing a safe and
certain means for the investment o.
the savings of a large portion of our
citizens A A.. G.
Portland, Me.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Conditions of the
Platform Contest

The Tribune invites you to write
planks for a Republican platform
and to write letters about planks
proposed BY other readers through
its columns.
For the best planks and letters
The Tribune offers these prizes:
For the best plank. .$500.00
For the second best plank. 250.oo
For each Of the eight next
best planks ............ 10000
For the best letter q daily
FAzc Va lV.UO
For the best letter in the
whole competition ...... 10000
The Tribune will make up a plat
form Of ten planks to be determined
by your votes. The ten issues re-
ceivtng the most votes will be tho
planks. The ten planks that best
express the chosen issues will be
selected for the prize awards.
Each plank is limited to 100 words,
OF two planks or letters Of equal
merit the shorter will be chosen.
Every plank and letter must bear
the name and address Of the sender,
although a nom de plume will be
published if the writer desires.
The contest will close at midnight.
April 80, 1920. Manuscripts will not
be returned
The judges of the contest will be
three of The Tribune's editors. They
will base their decisions on sound
thinking and brevity, clearness and
strength of statement.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Reform Wave
Should Begin
With Congress
Constitutional Methods of
Procedure DistOrte
Into Illicit Agreements
by Members, Is Charge
Secret Caucus Deplored
National Legislative Body
Called Vast Machine With
Very Exaggerated Powers
;, .so Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The autocratic ascendancy Of
.ur national Executive has recently
heen subjected TO good deal of ad-
verse criticism. while Congress, the
central and most fundamental organ
of the government, though even more
sadly in need Of reform, continues to
escape searching public scrutiny.
The President has merely magnified
Or exaggerated his acknowledged pow
ers and duties, but Congress has so
strikingly and fagrantly distorted it's
constitutional methods of procedure
that in its present shape it would be
oositively unrecognizable to the states
men Of Hamilton's time.
Congress is no longer a deliberative
body; it is a vast machine through
which thousands of laws pass. not as
.he result of consideration and debate,
but as the outcome of expediency. Few
members dare TO vote as they honestly
feel: to attempt to struggle with the
machine is to doom ones political ca
reer.
The fate of proposed laws is rarely
determined in open session, but gen.
orally in the dark and unrecorded bick-
erings of committee caucuses. The
rules governing each house are so for
mulated as TO concentrate all power in
the hands Of very few men. The in
surgent, while sickened by the revolt
ing sham Of the whole business, soon
realizes that his efforts will be ig-
nored Duty to his constituency soon
convinces him that if he expects to get
any pork" for his locality he must be-
come an obedient cog.
Illicit Legislative bargains are the
order of the day. Mutual forbearance
from voting-gene rally with some plau-
sible pretext-is a common occurrence.
Would it be at all surprising if more
vicious corruption should thrive in such
ar unwholesome atmosphere?
II honest, efficient government is our
objective there is no better place to be-
gin than with Congress. If to restore
our national legislatures old system
and its original position of honor and
fearless independence is cons dered
reactionary step, then let up have re-
action. The citizen who has his coun-
try's welfare at heart viii no longer
tolerate the pretense and traves.y of
representative government that sits in
the Capitol.
Congress has the power to make it's
own rules and the next Congress could
hardly find a more profitable way of
opening It's session than by the most
sweeping reforms in this respect In
TACT, it is our duty to exact pledges
from aspiring members that this will
be their first activity if they are
elected. J. w. +.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
u. S. Is In Wrong
As Big Brother
Rigid Martial Discipline
in Hayti and Domingo
Held a Craze Error

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Postwar adjustments are SEEM
ingly causing US to disregard our neigh
boris privilege of enjoying the princi-
Piles of democracy, which involve gov
ernment "of the people, for the people
and by the people" Are we shroud-
ing ourselves in feeling of selfish
ness and apathy, or is it because we are
simply negligent?
The Haytians and Domingans have
continued to set UP strong opposition
and reaction to American shackles. The
Cubans in '9S did the same until we
discovered our error. Has constitu-
tional authority empowered our Secre-
tary of the Navy to curb West Indian
will by his naval military policy in
Hayti?
We took over the island in "big-
brother" fashion to ward off Teutonic
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16

influence, and now We have gained the
odium of the natives themselves.
They demand and ought to have, now
that the war is ended, a civilian form
by our Marines under direct orders of
an iron hand"
These laws of rigid martial disci-
pline and government must be wiped
out and respectable peoples permitted
self government without infringement
on our part. J. B. MAZZIE.
3o1 West Seventythird Street, New
Ynr1r
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Minimum Work Hours

We advocate laws fixing the mini
mum number of hours which public
utility workers and producers of
commodities shall labor, at the same
time establishing maximum charges
for the products and maximum wage 8
for the workers. We also advocate
laws making it possible to prosecute
unions whose demands are adjudged
by state boards, established for the
purpose, to be unreasonable, con-
sidering all conditions of the cases
lie question.-A. D. Higgins.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Grade Fines by Wealth
Injustice Seen in Dealing With
All Classes Alike

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It occurs to me that fines as
now imposed, without respect to the
offenders means, reasonably cast a
doubt upon the equality of justice. By
this I mean that similar fine for
the same offense committed by a rich
or poor man. relatively Furnishes the
former leniently and the latter sorely
think system of mulcting in
proportion to the offenders income
would correct this shorncoming of our
courts. JAMES E. LISTON.
BROOKLYN
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Floor Rights for Cabinet

The members of the Presidents
Cabinet should be responsible to the
Congress and should be granted ths
privileges of the floor. They should
be permitted to initiate legislation
and should be retired from Office
upon rejection by the Congress of
legislation which they have initiated
OR legislation, initiated in the Con-
gress which they have supported
Fl. G. Chase.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Economic Equality

The Republican party pledges
initiative and support to investiga-
tlon and legislation for adjustment
of economic conditions which at pres
ent threaten and restrict the mere
standards Of existence of millions Of
our people, this settlement being
predominant and fundamental to
other legislation for national well
fare, progress and security.-N. c.. M.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
lmpartiality in Laws

The wellbeing of the people is best
promoted through the exercise Of
their private initiative, under i'm
partially administered laws, which
give to each citizen equality of right
of access to natural resources under
conditions which shall prevent waste.
Experience during the recent past
has shown anew that attempts by the
government to operate commercial
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16

$4,000 year; also make the Vice
Presidents Office one of greater i'm
portance. Authorize the Vice-P -Presi-
dent to act as President when the
PRESIDENT is absent from the United
states or when the President is in
caPacltated by. sickness. accident or
o1nerwlsc, such incapacity to be de-
termined by the Cabinet D. X.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Repeal Eighteenth Amendment

We favor the immediate repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution, believing that the ques-
tion of the manufacture and sale of
Intoxicating liquors is one that
should be left to the different states
for egulation.-Castner Browder.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Raise Presidents Salary

We advocate making the Presi-
Dental term six years and limited
to one term only; make the Presi-
dents salary S365,00O a year and re-
tire him at $4,000 a year for life.
Make the Vice-P Presidents SALARY
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Encourage Democracy

Our mission is to teach and to en-
courage democracy throughout the
world. Our greatness and strength
lie IN example, not in alliances. AS
nation we must work out our own
salvation. Let our slogan be: "Our
country, our Declaration of lnde-
Pendence, our Cons nstitution. "=R. Err.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Uphold the Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine we believe
Is best defined by the exact language
OF President James Monroe in his
message to Congress in 1928, and we
pledge. every effort to enforce its
provisions absolutely-V. D. Mark.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Some Suggested Planks
0"9 t0e mass OF suggestions Republican platform are the fonn

enterprises are bound to result in
waste and inefficiency and to be un-
economical and relatively disad-
vantageous to the public-W. ].
Meyers, 527 Highland Avenue, West
field, Nj.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Free Press and Speech

We condemn any action or policy
which tends to limit or suppress the
freedom of, expression of the senti-
ments of the American citizen
through the excision of his inviolable
right of franchise. We believe that
any action tending to nullify the ex-
pressed sentiments of the majority
only aids to spread the false doc
trines of Bolshevism and undermines
this government of the people, by the
people and for the people.-Charles
Barban, 1107 Broadway.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Adjust Tax Rate.

Our present system of income taxa
tion is discriminatory and un-Ameri
can' 1t aimed at capital, hit labor
and labor has hit back. The excess
sive cost of living is the inevitable
result. Determine the gross income
or the country, draft an accurate ex-
pense budget, and the tax rate is
automatically determined. An ef-
ncient administration will prove
itseh.o-John II. Lancaster, Litch-
field, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
Training of All Youths

Whether or not the consummation
OF an efficient world league for peace
shall become an accomplished fact,
the duty of free republic like our
own is to provide against the possi-
bility of war by preparing it's youths
IN anticipation of such an eventuality
by a system of training designed to
increase physical efficiency and skill,
as we'll as mental grasp of the needs
of the hour. Every youth of the
land should be equipped by practical
experience to enter the army or navy
as the need should arise, but there
must be guarantees against militar-
ism in such preparation.-C. A.
Lemmers, Budget and Efficiency Com
missioner, Capitol Building, Denver.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-16
More Power to Vice-President

The party pledges itself to submit
to the American people an amend
ment to the Constitution enlarging
the power of the Vice Pre- esident. He
shall be vested with such power as
shall relieve the President of much
unnecessary pressure, while training
him for the same Office should the
President die or be obliged to relin-
gulsh office.-Republican, A. B., Mo-
hawk, N. Y.