THE CORVALUS iMTE Published Tuesday and Fridays by Gazette "Publishing Company. The Subscription pnc of the Gazsxtb for several years has been, and remains $2 per annum, or 26 per cent, discount if paid in advance. This paper will be continued until all arrearages are pa: J. HAVE YOU READ IT? The commercial Club of Port land save a dinner a few even-, ings since at which a number of addresses were made. The principal one was by H. W. Scott, editor of the Oregoman. The subject under discussion was the use made of the Initiative and Referendum. The speaker clear ly and correctly stated the con ditions out of which this consti tutional amendment grew and the evils incident to our former methods of legislation which, it was believed the introduction of. this legislative principle would eradicate. Speaking of the adoption of the initiative and referendum, Mr. Scott said: "I doubt wheth er it would be now accepted by so large a majority; possibly would not be adopted at all. For experience with it certainly has not been all that could have been desired." He then' proceeds to show that a small body of men may "invoke the initiative on; matters of special interest to themselves or to their thinking, but which cover no wide purpose; or appeal to the referendum to defeat ; or uphold certain meas ures which for one reason or an other a portion of the people may dislike." 1 Every one knows this is true. Two years ago the general ap propriation bill passed by the legislature was held up in this manner, and an expense of S90 fW carlrllorl nnnn rho ht. payers because a portion of the people disKked some features of the bilh Just now a few people .are holding up the appropriation for the State University, and that institution is greatly hampered in conducting its work. The speaker referred to the primary law for making nomina tions and showed how it, too, like the initiative and referen dum, wa3 liable to abuse. "In my opinion we shall not, as a rule, obtain a very good class of nominations , under the pri mary law," he said. And he hacked up his opinion by the most cogent and convincing reasons. Continuing, he showed how our "constitutional changes have virtually done away with the constitution as it was, and large ly with the idea of representative government also." Of this inno vation he says: "We certainly shall tire of it if ill-timed and ill considered initiative and referen dumpetitions continue to be forced upon the attention of the elector ate." Earnestly does he plead for the exercise of prudence, judgment, ', clear information and i knowledge and entire un selfishness on part of the elector ate, lest those measures which were intended to preserve our rights ' and enlarge our, liberty shall destroy both. The w.hole address is a masterly, clear, concise and logical presentation of questions of the gravest portent No one is better qualifi ed than Mr. Scott, perhaps none so well qualified as he, to give a calm, dignified, philosophical and statesman-like presentation of these matters. We most heartily wish every man in the state might read and carefully ponder upon the wholesome truths set forth in this brief address. PRESERVE IT. Government of a people by representatives chosen by the people from among themselves, and direct government of the people by themselves are but two forms of democracy. The latter is described as pure democracy; the former , as representative democracy. r We have had but few and ne long continued examples : of pure democratic government. The early New England town govern ment and - possibly some later pioneer adoptions of it have given the only illustrations of this form of government our history records. As population increased it became manifestly impossible for all the people or even a majority of them to come together for the purpose of enact ing laws for their government. Government by representation, or representative government was then resorted to This is the form of government adopted by the several states and by the United States. Never before in human history had the idea of representative government been so widely, earnestly and intelli gently applied to conducting the business of human government. Europe stood aghast. Political economists, . ; philosophers and statesmen predicted our early fall. We emerged from the bloodiest civil war of all history. The unity: of the nation, Vthe constitution and our entire gov ernmental machinery were pre served. Those who predicted that our fate would be that of ancient -Greece and Rome, where mob government made demagog ical, autocratic rule so intolerable that men gladly welcomed a des potism, found they were mis taken. They had failed to com prehend the strength of .repre sentative government. For more than a century and a quarter the United States has endured without a change in the form of govern ment. The representative idea embodied in our constitution has proved 4 be strong enough to guard our liberties . against as saults from enemies without and mischievous passions within. ; We believe It will do so for all time. Certain it is that we should be cautious how we modify the representative , feature of our government lest "we remove or impair the strongest safeguard of our political and religious liberties and expose ourselves to the deceptive attacks of our own unreasoning passions- Let us see to it that we preserve this basic principle in our government. A rag published in the western Dart of the .county prints . this: VG- W.-Denman, County Supt. of schools is being urged by a few of his intmate friends to be a candidate for County Qlerk in the next election. " Being born of such parentage this sounds like a false accusation cf Mr. Denman's friends. Additional Local. Disappointed at inability to secure con victions in the two cases thus far tried, officers in charge of the prosecution of alleged violators of the local option law Ijn Albany have announced that no mors cases will be tried in the J ustice Uourt nntil after the term of State Circuit Court which convenes Monday, October 28th. . F. Zimmerman, superintendent of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League, who has b-en in Albany directing the prosecu tions, returned to Portland Friday after noon. W. L Paeon, the detective who worked up the cases, also left for Port land, where he is employed in Lou Hart man's detective agency. It is under stood to be the plan of the Anti-8aloon League men to have no more complaints filed except in the Circuit Court, where they hope to meet a jury of farmers . This is a good time of year to rake up and burn the dead leaves and any other accumulations of trash along tte side waiks in the business part of town, as well as in private yards and in alleys generally. A few persons are seen oc. casionally raking up trash aud sending it up in smoke but they are like angels' visits ''few at.d far between." Let ev eryone take a hand in it. A Good Trade. 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