White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-11-01

Appearing at the top Of the ballot
next week viii be one referendum, two
amendments to the constitution and
two initiative measures.
It is always a safe rule when In
doubt to vote no on all issues appear
ing at the top of the ballot One ini-
tiative is designed to force tax eaters
to stay within the 40-mill limitation act,
and incidentally will reduce the millage
levies in road district funds throughout
the state 1t is tax reducing measure.
The referendum is the notorious
Bone power bill needed in Seattle pri-
marily to aid that city in using the
rest of the state to help carry its city
light plant cost load.
Naturally every person in Seattle is
vitality interested in seeing this adopted
as is Tacoma, because in the former
city, the future burden Of the light
plant looks blank unless the rest of the
state can be encouraged to help lift
the load.
1t is a safe prediction to make right
now that the day is not far distant If
the Bone Bill should be enacted into
law but that Seattle will be up here in
Olympia, aided by Senator Bone and
others, asking that the state take over
the Seattle lighc plant and operate
it. This is but a step in the future.
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Initiative No. n. This has been argued
pro and con throughout the state. It
is q rather dangerous procedure to
create by direct vote, that of legis-
lating an industry and an industrial
pay roll out of the state carrying with
paying property.
If this bill could do what it's sponsors
hope for, it would not be so bad, but
the bill simply legislates against one
type of commercial fishing gear In
favor of another and the favored type
is the most disastrous kind of killer
when conservation is considered, to
be found in the industry.
The measure creates monopoly at
the expense of thousands of fishermen
and their families. One firm alone in
Whatcom county spends $685. 1886 an
nually in pay roll and supplies and this
outfit will be legislated out of business.
1t buys annually 1921 1856 of Whatcom
county farm products, creating a mar
ket at all times. Yet his firm would
be forced to quit.
No one at this time can even at
tempt to predict what the outcome will
be next Tuesday. Gamblers, who make
money betting on the elections, are
hauling in their odds. Several hundreds
of dollars were wagered early in the
campaign among the gamblers, that
Upton Sinclair would be elected COVER
nor of California. These odds have
long since vanished and now the gam
blers are scurrying around to cover.
In the state, United States senatorial
situation, these selfsame gamblers
who played so strongly upon the hope
that the Pacific Coast was radically
inclined, are now rapidly changing
their offers in this state on Schwellen-
bach and Odlin.
These odds are changing daily.
Hence when the careful gambler, after
having polls and straw votes taken all
over the state starts shifting his sites,
the novice cannot be expected to be
able to predict.
Betting based upon straw votes and
surveys indicate that DR.. John W.
Summers, of the fourth Congressional
district is looked upon as certain
winner Even money odds are to be
found in two other districts so that
il does NOT look like a walk AWAY for