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Show FAILURE OF THE REFERENDUM. It Is notorious thit whenever the people are called upon to voto on a proposition to amend a constitution, to vote sea or no on the Issue of bonds, or on nns proportion not dlrectls to put some one In office, the Interest lag We have had Instance of this In Utah whenever a question of this kind his come up Every Stale has the c.une experience, nnd set we nre confidently assured by zealots who soo 1 panacea In the adoption of the referendum, thnt the referendum Is the protection of th people, and that Itv general adoption In legislation leg-islation would detent political nnd per-soml per-soml Jobs, and rurlfy the politic nl at-mosphere at-mosphere restoring a Invt altruism and confining tho limitations of corrupt cor-rupt political action within the narrowest nar-rowest limits We believe on the con-trii), con-trii), thnt nothing would be so conducive con-ducive of tricks nnd Jobs as the adop. tlon of the refcrenium, nnd thai If It were Joined with the Initiative, tho people would be robbed hand over list ln a way so ruthless and wholesale that the Ilk Is not now conceivable It Is perfectl) natural thnt this should bo so For who would get up hemis, who would be .ntcicBted In Mlirlng up people for the Initiation of legislation: M inlfestl) those who were to profit b) It thiso who were lo get big returns re-turns on theli Invcstntnts tho could afford to puy all the experses of the ugltatlon for what they wanted which wo may be sure they would dlsgulS) o as to make It i-eeni plausible, they could iliculutc the retltlons nnd fnl-low fnl-low them up, to the legislative sessions, the legislatures could easily bo captured cap-tured their suspicion aliased by the fact that the people would Jtt pass upon the measure und couul reject It If It wii bud and members who might not wish to agree would scorn, full) he usked If the) were nfrnld to refer the matter to the people It the people were not tho sourio of power, anl wete not entitled to pass uron this gieat measure, which the people hvo abundantly retltlonod for, and mm ilenmiit the n porlunlty to pass upon b) their votes The mguinent woull be Irrcslslltlo, the Icglsliitiita would slcld tho pioonltlqn would bo submitted in the eople und a small fraction of the peoplo would vote upon It the 1 iiiiiiiiieis being tho only one that would tako any special Interest In It, and they would see that the votes thnt weic enst were In the affirmative. Hint we Inks It would he about the hlslots nf the Jobs thut would bo wniked throui.li umlir the Initiative und refeiendum The latest Instance nf the working of the referendum Is thn vols on the amendent to the constltnu7 nectlcut. la that 8t"t, 1 " iqultou ssstem of repre,.,, the Legislature prevail, Ctu without regard to opuia'"ch one member ot the on .7 " constitutional conventions,. Introduce some relict fro"" equallts. U metenda ,? f months, finally propo lnf 2 populous towns shouu hav. bcr It wasnt much rrti,t. was a starter, nnd fron ,.' changes toward popular r,tr' ' could have been evolved But, this would como or not, u, change was of vital interest ton pie, and one would natursii,, that they would vot viMn .. a an important question m,' so7 Not at all, onl) nfieMV tho hundred were polld It i-cverc knockout for the t(t(p and the lesson Is that thl, i popular test should rather be 0 th.cn nnlnrpeil |