Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-02
GREATER ALBUQUERQUE TICKET.
For City Commissioners
W. X. WALTON
SIDNEY NJ. WE'LL
CLYDE TINGLEY
PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The changes now being rung by the Triumyirate
on 'amateurs in public finance" and experienced
business managers" raises an age old question in
4 concrete form They call the candidates on the
Greater Albuquerque ticket amateurs in public
finance" while they modestly designate themselves
as Inexperienced business managers" They are pro-
ceeding on the theory that If untrue statement
is repeated often enough the people can be made
to believe it.
TO begin with the statement makes us weary"
4 Who shows the better business management for in
stance, the banker who gets himself into position
where $4,000 a year is poured into his lap from
the sweat of other mems brows, or the wife or a
poor preacher devoting himself to human service
who makes $1,000 year feed, clothe and educate
a half-dozen rosy-cheeEed children? Put up
against such a problem in management, the banker
would throw up his hands in despair and say it
could not be done. He is no business manager"
He is merely a strategist manipuator good
Jockey taking the pole" away from his adversary
in lfe's race He is not even that when dad" did
1t and then swapped riders after the lead has been
taken. In such circumstances he is merely an aero
bat-proyided he can retain his saddle.
McMillen his water office with two en-
employees; our experienced business managers
use five. But the revenue wrung from the con-
sumers is large and the business will stand the load
When 1t came out of McMillen's and Joshua Ray
nods pockets 1t different but when it comes
out of the people, who cares? Can anyone conceive
r. Mclaughlin, on his pay roll for $3.50 per month,
when that young blood is absolutely useless
ornament and does work? Or can anyone mag
inc ]. NJ Reynolds making the retired father-in-
law OF j. NJ Gladding cashier of the First National
at 5000 per month because he needs job? Yet
Reynolds made that gentleman city treasurer This
Inexperienced business manager" stuff is an election
hoax.
But, assume that it is not election fraud, in
tended only to catch voters Suppose for instant the
violent supposition that this triumvirate from the
poIitco financial combination which rules things
in Albuquerque and New Mexico. are unusually
capable men. What then?
You are faced again with the same old problem
of property rights against human rights The
sacredness of property against the comfort hap
pness prosperity Of all the people, stares you
straight in the face.
J. p. Morgan is probably the best business
man. in America. Why not elect him presi-
dent of tho United States and then make Gary. sa-
bin Reynolds and other international bankers his
cabinet? They would give you a real business ad-
rnnistration."
why not have every state send its two best
bankers to the United States senate and elect their
best subordinates to misrepresent US in congress?
Does any one doubt that would have "busi-
ness administration"
why not elect w. A. Hawkins, attorney for the
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad and the Phelps
Dodge interests governor and make John M
Sully the head OF the state tax commission? why
not make up the legislature from their local attor-
News and bankers? Then we would have a real
..husiness administration" Their too great influ-
ence as private citizens has well nigh ruined New
Mexico aIready--for everyone except the politico-
financial combine.
ANYBODY knows that we need men with reason
ably good business heads to transact public busi-
ness But nobody develops a halo about his head
which makes him indispensable saint When
the time comes that the people cannot continue
their government without the services of some one
man. or some triumvirate OF men, 1t is time 10
begin to train one else for the Job. The In
dispensable one might die and the wheels Of gov
ernment STOP o, pshaw!
The people need representatives who under
standstand the everyday problems of existence;
who know how TO encourage and get by with
what they have instead of merely possessing the
faculty of accumulatng than they need. VINO
understand the aspirations of a mother to ade-
or,ately cothe end feed and educate her paples'
Mni,o know the longing of laborng man for nest
~ his birdllngs with q square Of green grass and
Aower in front to gladden. his eye; who know
that high paving costs confiscatory for home
of small means; who know that resent
teing ignored and over-ridden.
n rha people need men who place human peace
I, mind and comfort above the rights of property
- ,,reaerve and augment itself at the expense OF
others
q ret none conclude that we advocate lack OF
sccurity for the savings of the industrious or be-
A3seva III the confiscaton wanton dissipation OF
\ nroperty The reverse is true.
The Journal believes in balanced government
II, fi,e maintenance OF equilibrium between CON
<ictsng Interests. We believe neither in turning
MI government to capitalists under the ban
Ia,er ID .business management, nor to labor under
tno banner of confiscaton.
walton Weil and Tngley are goor business
men Don't allow yourselves TO be fooled about
Xat They also come from the people and know their
J1fones and aspirations and ambitions. vote for
ii ttntn is a vote for balanced government. They
n arc your kind of people