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Show i: ' .as ! f ' I Institutions, organizations, and self-appointed individuals, who sought to influence the voters in the College controversies, by open opposition or sly propaganda, should have learned a valuable lesson. "People will vote their honest hon-est convictions whenever they have a chance, in the confines of the secret ballot booth." After all, this is just as it should be. Voting vis a personal matter. How a person votes and for what he votes, is his 6wn private pri-vate business. A true cross-section of public opinion can be secured in no other way. In the secret ballot booth, the rich, the poor, the timid, the bold, the honest man, and the hypocrite arc equal. The vote of We arrived home Tuesday in time to vote for the sewer, after a long weekend- in Price. Things are looking up considerably in Castle Valley. The coal mines are mostly all working; and the results of the November 2 voting on the Carbon College issue has spread a rosy hue over things in general. Speaking about elections reminds re-minds us that the right to vote as we choose is about the most priceless privilege we enjoy. In second place we might justifiably name the referendum law; which gives the common people the chance to revoke questionable legislation. leg-islation. If folks do not approve the actions of their lawmakers, they can do something about it. There is no doubt that our legislators leg-islators went off "half-cocked" when they voted to close Carbon College and turn the Weber, Snow, and Dixie institutions over to the LDS Church. Whipped through, during the waning hours of the Special Session, by Governor Lee. and his partisan cohorts, the thing was done before the people really knew what was going on. The decisive manner in which both Junior College proposals were slapped down re-emphasizes again the old adage that "the schools belong to the people." Since the schools do belong to you, me, and the rest of us, we have a just right to say who shall run them. one counts just as much as the vote of another. The secret ballot and the two-party two-party system are the democratic institutions most hated by the dictators. dic-tators. In fact, free elections and dictatorships cannot exist together. togeth-er. Whenever people fall under the Communistic heel, these privileges are the first to go the rest follows fol-lows as a matter of course. Despite what politicians say, this country will not go to tire dogs if and when their opponents are elected. Democracy will never fail as long as people may vote their honest convictions without dictation or coercion. So long 'til Friday. |