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Show FACTS, NOT THEORIES. THAT WORRY WILSON i "I te' you." sstd th governor of Kow .Icrst-y as reported by Mr. William Bay-j Bay-j r J tla In World s Work, "th people I tf IM state and thla country ar de-f'rmincd de-f'rmincd at last to take over the eon-Hot eon-Hot ot theft own politics. We ar going l to rut down the Jungle lo which corruption corrup-tion lurks. We are going to drag things Into the light, break down private understanding un-derstanding and fore them to be public understandings. We mean to have the kind of goernment we thought we had. "If this doesn't work, why then we shall have to try the Initiative snd referendum. refer-endum. Believe In It? Certainly 1 do. I haven't the sMghtst fear of Its disturbing dis-turbing our theory of representative government. gov-ernment. I don't worry about theories anyhow; it Is facts that worry me, Th fact la, w In Kw Jersey have at pre- ent -little more than th theory, while In i states where they hav tried It, the In-1 In-1 Ittatlv and referendum has given them hack the fact of representative government. govern-ment. It works, you know, without being be-ing ca l led on to work at alt. Where legialatlv representatives know that If t hev fail really to represent, the peo- R'e have the power to take legislation ack Into their own hands, those representatives repre-sentatives hav an effective motive to represent. Th Initiative and referendum Is like a gun behind th door for use only In case of amergency. but a mighty arnrnft tkaira Mauler. nevArthelsHaWa. |