Arizona republican., 1920-12-23
e.t out the Vote

Get Out the vote
 one week from tomorrow there will be vital decision concerning the county roadbuilding pro- cram It will then be determined whether the tax ravers of Maricopa county want ahead with the proxram which they endorsed with such unaninity and warmth eighteen months or whether they want to abandon it leaving little patches of paved roads scattered here and there about the county affording no other means of modern trans portation than as brief resting places for teams and trucks after blowing through long intervening stretches of dust to reach these cases m the desert of impassability.
 one thing or the other will be decided Friday December s1 We will then know whether or not the next day we shall enter with high determina- ton upon good roads plan whether we have settled back upon system of dirt roads with which we will be content as the pioneers were when they laid them out along the desert roughly marked section lines
 From such inquiry we have made we believe that if there is heavy the proposed additional bonds for the completion of the county road gram will be carried There are comparatively few yieople who are opposed to the bonds because they believe the public debt should not be increased at this time; who do perceive that there will be no increase which they could feel that whatever may be financial conditions at this time. they must get better long before the time when the bonds will be paid Most people rightly expect that there will be many alternating periods or good anu pau liHeS within the next twenty-two years. To most of us the talk of inopportunty of additional bond issue is meaningless Yet we must bear in mind that there s,a psychology in this that will make votes against the bonds on election day. These must be overcome by the votes of who the absolute necessity for good roads and beyond a period of tenn porary depression
 The county and the city of Phoenix have always been liberal in the matter voting money for pub lie improvement but most of the taxpayers in the past have given their consent by their silence. The few chronic opponents of bonds have always been in such hopeless minority that even when elections have been allowed go by default there enough of them to prevent issues.
 In the late city bond election. of six bond propositions were defeated because there ridic- uIousiy light vote. The people who attended showed discrimination by carrying the two propositions which seemed to all of the more essential. But the psychology of which we have spoken entered and other worthy propositions defeated by such narrow margins that we may believe that if fifty more voters had gone to the poles they would have carried
 The chronic opponent of bonds is always at the pols rain shine He needs electioneering be there without being importuned to go And next Friday he will be there accompanied by many who are chronic opponents of bonds but who have personal or selfish reasons for defeating the
 
 ferent type of road from that which people endorsed; there those who like the county highway commission or the board of supervisors and those who would like a slightly different high way program. They will all be at the election.
 campaign of education in behalf of the high ways bonds has been carried on; it has been a very good campaign But we are apt to overestimate the effects of campaigns of education to spend too much time them. The people as a rule are not in great need of education we think they are. their than their intelligence that needs to be aroused If the average voter can only be interested he is apt think straight and ratey without being told how.
 Most the people think right and will do the right thing The main thing always for those who think they right is to get out the vote so that things will be decided by the majority Most of he evils of government the world has ever suffered have resulted from the rule of minorities which have caught maiorities mapping. Though boshevism seems by it's name indicate a regime of the ma jority. as a matter of fact it controls only by a highly organized minority If the highway bonds should be defeated next Friday, December s1 and our county road program goes gIimmering it will have been accomplished by @ minority.
 Get out the vote. That is all needs to be done. That must be done by organized and individual effort It cannot be done by confer ences, or by speeches and resolutions