The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-10-25

insofar as the selection of congressional and
legislative timber is concerned. Ihese
branches of our government make the laws
which we shall be governed or misgoverned.
If there are abuses which should be correct
ed, we must look to these men to do the job
for us, in large sense.
Are you fully acquainted with the set-up
in this regard. Do you know how many SEN
ators we are to elect, who they are and what
they represent? How long is the term, who
is the hold over and how long has his term
yet to run !? Do you know?
How about congress? Who is running
and how long is the term? What have the
candidates done to make you think they are
capable of determining the policies which the
United States should follow in these diff
cult times? Do you know?
A similar situation pertains as regards
the state. Who is the senator from this dis
trict? How big is the district? Do you
know? And the lower housewife repre-
scented Benton county last year; who are the
candidates this year; how many have we and
where are they from? Do you know; do
you know if they are competent or what they
stand for? Do you?
How about judges? Do you know who
they are and what they represent?
Do you know about the initiatives, the
referendum and the amendment to the state
constitution? What are they? How many?
Do you know that Initiative No. " will
create an absolute monopoly of the third
largest industry in the state? That it will
drive Washington industry into Canada or
Oregon, take from the state the full power to
control, will mean confiscation of property,
cause vast loss of taxes, create unemploy
ment, increase the cost of canned salmon?
Did you know that this would be the effect of
the passage of this bill-or will it?
Fishermen up the streams where the
salmon spawn claim the opposite, that it will
be the means of saving the salmon industry.
Do you know? What will you do when asked
for your personal opinion about it on the bal
lot November 6?
What do you think about Initiative 81?
Do you think the bill really means what the
title which will be printed upon the ballot in
dicates? Do you think it will really mean
tax limitation? If it does, there will be re-
quired some other source of revenue sales
tax, probably. Don't you think a sales tax
will cost you more in the course of year
than tinkering with the present setup-or
do you? Your opinion is asked for on the
ballot. What will you say
Over in Seattle, where the city has gone
bankrupt with it's street car system ard it's
power plant way up north, there is move
to permit the city to serve Eastern Washing
ton consumers, at the expense-perhaps pf
the Coulee Dam project. The plan if car
ried out will remove other millions from the
states tax rolls, making larger percentage
for the people in other parts of the state to
furnish. Do you want to help Seattle power
interests get strangle hold upon the rest
of the state, with political machine built up
and controlled by the councilmen in the City
of Seattle in control? Or is that possible?
Or do you care whether Seattle has its fing-
ers in the power business in this side of the
state? Just what effect will that bill have
upon Eastern Washington? Do you know
You will be asked, via the ballot, week
after next, what you think about making the
county public utility district. What do you
think of that? You will be asked to select
three commissioners to manage the district
Do you know who the candidates are? Do
you know anything about their fitness for
the jobs? Do you know what manner of en-
terprises these commissioners may engage
In besides the distribution of power Do you
know what their sa:.,r:as will be? Do you
know what sets their salaries? Do you know
they can set their own salaries? Do yor
know how to get them out of office if they
should happen to run wild? Do you know
that they can't be removed from office fol
any cause? Do you know how much money
they can spend without vote? Do you care