Fillmore Progress | 1915-11-05 | Page 3 | Reformation

reformation in the national municipal review calls attention to the danger dangar in a multitude of organizations and gives an astonishing list hat ot of societies leagues associations organizations and federations this multi of organizations tiong is a direct result of tile tho initiative end and referendum and other government ideas we have distrusted the state and taken things into our own hands with the result that organization in the effort to have our ideas adopted into laws has become u baneful influence the chief ia 1 l of such organizations however s found in ili the multiplicity of statutes which express tile the zeal of petty groups group and small minorities and not the consi considered derea judgment Ju dement of the mass of tho the community such laws are largely and they themselves create cicato art an evil far outweighing the good they were intended to accomplish oven even it if that good were in reality attained it is a pity that so much civic feeling Is dissipated by its diversion into so many petty channels laws should express the main stream f community thought and feeling and no more