The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1923, Page 24

THE SEATT LE STA R Here Is the Speech Which Raised All the Tumult in the Legislature Full Text of What Rep. |: Heighton Said to Club: ey Judge for Yourself Whether Lawmaker Is Deserving of Here is the full text of t by Representative Charles Hei Democratic club at Meves cafe Tt is this speech which bro of the state machine, is is its first appearance in yourself whether Heighton Whether his enemies do: Mr, Chairman, Ladies and Ge men: I plead guilty to having been @ltcted representative from the 47th istrict, which is known as one of The Bik stocking districts of the ity; but I do not suffer from the Peactionary gangrene that hi in. Hected most of the men who have been sent to the legislature from that district. Two years ago candidates for tho Tegistature and for various state of fices came before the people, they recognized thes vas one prime fesue, That was taxation—tow algh cost of government. We saw the cost of running this fovernment increase from $5,000,000 1910 to some $17,000,000 in 1920 @m increase of 340 per cent with fmerease in population of less th cent. ” ‘And so men came before us and pledged themselves to re- duce the cost of government. ‘That meant that they were. ce. to spend less money than cad iad apeat before, And what did they aay ‘went to Olympia and In ‘absolute violation of that pledge appropriated more money then any legislature had ever ed in the history of state, ‘And I went up and down tn my “ geactionary district telling the people ‘that every man who had violated Pledge to his constituents should driven from public office at the first opportunity; and the thing that [regret very much, Indeed, was that the state officers who were In rge measure responsible were not for re-election so that we could a chance to put the blame it really belongs. iME GROUP NOW IN CONTROL Now, I went down to Olympia ths firm hope that therp would -& new spirit in that legislature, the forces of reaction would @ominate {t, and that we would Wable to do something to relieve tax burden that rests upon prery city and community in the stat T tell you the present outlook not good. The same forces are there; the iifluences that mean extrava- that mean the building of a teal machine at the expense of ‘Welfare of the people. That same up is in control. They are not ‘control with the acquiescence of few of us, but they are neverthe- control; and I can see no Up to date of any serious intention of reducing the tures of the government of ‘state. The people at large may | like the Hart machine, they Rot like the present adminis- 4 Dut I tell you down there ey are ace high. ‘think we have good laws in this I think we have a good form “government in this state; I don't ik we are working It right. jere was a Hebrew woman went take golf lessons. She came to her husband and refused take any more lessons. I might “you who do not play golf that pare two things about golf: one the form—the manner tn which ‘Swing the club; the other ts the he way you stand and hold }elub. Shoe told her husband that be golf instructor bad insulted her nd she wouldn't take any more les. ao te my to replied, “He sald ‘Your form good but your stench {s awful.’” © That is the way it is with the it. government n I went down there you can fine that, being a young man, man, I received much advice. been taken aside many times told that I should get in with bunch and drill, that I was lish to try to fight these fellows, that my place was to take the ad. ‘vice of the old men who had been there before. And I talked to some those old-timers, talked to a senator who had n there since 1897; and he said, it do you expect to do?” ‘said, “I expect to vote my con- said, “You can’t do {t. You forget that. You will forget down here.” I #4id, “Don't you yote your con- ms?” In my innocence I said n ill Mt that way, But you know,” he “you have to give something. can’t always vote the way you ” Now, I am conceited enough think that you can vote the way u think; and I think that right is the thing that strikes at miative government. There certain influences brought to upon a legislator, A man @ certain things that are good & majority of the people; and 1 ie it we are there to do the great. good for the greatest number, it are the forces that are repre. nted there? The people who sup. Ply the money and the influence /&nid the argument to those men are there in the interests of the e. good of the greatest num- x, but they are there for some sh purpose; and a legislator or officer cannot serve two mas. I am worry to say that tn cases that I know of the mag. of those legislators are not the Of this state, I seo it every ‘want you to picture a poor leg. or coming in from Wahkiakum unty or Asotin county, Hé wants do right, but he has got some fle selfish purpose. Ho wants a He strip of road two miles long his folks there. How ts he going get it? That iw the quention, doesn't come there with the idea i he will do what he can for the Interests of the pecpls as a O16, Ho has, to be wure, the iden the back of his head; but his pri- Purpows {s that merely selfish and| Impeachment e speech which was delivered ghton before the King County oteria in Seattle last Saturday. ught forth a proposal, on the for Heighton’s impeachment. print. Read it and judge for deserves to be censured, or Purpose—that little road. Well, trades to get it; that ts w docs, Trades to get it my back and I wil And before he is th very soul to get that road. not sit in hig chair when comes up and say, wrong?” He mys, “Who will I of fend tf I vote against tt? Whose | good will will I win if I vote for it? And if the administration wants {t and back of the administration tf some one else wants it, they can al ways count on his vote, That j the Susidicus thing in the Washing ton lature and every other leg i . I have talked to men and I have said, “Will, not stand up and put your }the air, look forward and 4 vote your conv "And 8 Very little response to tt. | THE WOMAN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME Now, we have talked for years about the woman's industrial jhome. And you know, in dec Any question, unless it 1s a qu | of detail of administration, 1 1 try and reduce it down to some prin ciple, and many of these questions can The women of this state have put up &@ persistent, aggressive and tn tolligent fiyht for the woman's tn- dustrial heme, They recognize that he he He does bil ace—to every family in the state, and especially to the young men of the state, and they have made @ fight for this thing, You perhaps read in the paper the other day that a few women met In Olympia and decided that they did not want that home at all this year Not being on the Inside, I know what political legerdemain was used, I don't know what political anti-toxin was shot Into their veins, to convince them that they did not/ |want the woman's Industrial home, jor at least did not want it this year; but I have seen the wives of some state officers prominently buzzing | around ths women there. The administration does not want |that home functioning, and I have Jan Idea tliat they had a good deal to do with telling the women that they @idn't néed to have that honm going this year. Now, to me the first function of the state government ts to administer to the health and the welfare—the physical welfare—of Its people (applause), and then if we have any money left we can do some of the other things that may be classed as the frills of government. | TELLS ABOUT | HART'S RECEPTION I attended the governor's recep- ton, and as I went up there and was met by servants at the door, ushered past servants thru the door, and saw all the glittering lights and the won- derful hardwood floors, the wonder. ful furniture, beautifully gowned people, and wonderful rugs, I thought of the $18,000 for two years that we give him to entertain us with, of the $10,000-limousine we sive him. I thought of how he spends twice as much on office ex- pense as the costs for the governor of the state of Indiana. On the other hand I thought of a state that sald, are too poor to protect the health of our people.” 1 say we have millions (applause)—we have millions to protect the health of the people, but we haven't a dol- lar to further the political ambitions of any man or any group of men. (Applause). And when you come down to ft, if you will analyz the administrative code, It has two purposes so far as the politicians are concerned; {t gives the head of the state government great authority to appoint a lot of officers, and ‘uen it gives him au- thority to pay them about twice as much salary as they would allow to be paid the constitutional officers of the state. It gives us two sets of adminis- trative officers instead of one. That is the purpose of it. It is eminently designed to build up a political ma- ching in this state. That is what it has done; that is what it will con- tinue to do, I was reading the other day the Declaration of Independence. I thought when I read this sentence how wonderful !t Is, and how tt ap- plies so nearly to Gov. Hart's action in refusing to sanction an appropria- tion for the woman's industrial home and also his action fn reference to the administrative code, Here is the woran’s industrial home in the Declaration of Independence; “He'—- this refers to King George, but sub- stitute for “King, George” the words “Gov. Hart,” and read: “He has re- fused assent to laws most wholesome and necessary to the public good.” Here {8 the administrative code: “He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out thelr substance.” IT’S A NON-PARTISAN MENACE HE SEES Now, if there are democrats here who feel that what I have stated has been a compliment to democrats, I want to say that the thing I am attacking is not vapyblicans. The thing that T am attacking {# non- partisan. I have seen these same forces at work in the state of Colo- rado, where I came from, and they work Just n# well for the democratic party as they do for the republican party. Don't fool yourselves, The big men who do the manipulating are non-partisan, When I got down there I tried to get ome Iberal-minded men in the legislature to reducw expenditures. We made a little study as to what it cont to run the state of Washing: ton in comparison with some of the other states, and we found we were Away out of line. Ww also found the methods of determining how much the various departments were going to have to run them for the next biennium, There was no nclentitic way of doing It. A man pute in his those! be reduced to some principle. | there is a menace—a potential men: | don't} wnt we made no use tr hat tt ¢ st to run t of state of Washington was ut of Ine per cent ¢ iy more. bode lied for a levy of m than 11% mills, That ts ao flat reduction of You have to get 17 gnetures down th to get a roll We I got 17 signatures, We had sonre men ti 1 up who were in favor of th and when it came up €© yote, even as I stood on my feet to present the resolution, men me running to qe saying, “For God's sake scratch my name off that resalajtion,” ‘They had not changed thelr | minds. They believed in it stitl | It was not that. Something else had changed their minds, They still believed in this themselves, but they were afraid. They were afraid of offending someone who 1 would interfere with some little | selfish purpose that they hoped te mplish, So we got « cotal of son 32 votes upon the measure, 0,000 WANTED, BUT WHAT FoR? The next tht that ¢ ° per cent call February at was to my mind a | ney, I wanted to kr what they were g March mum of just exa to use it for, 80 we had a resotutto that we should have detailed infor ation about ft ailed information. We found ou just by chance that they were go ing to expend some of tt—tnstead of to maintain highways they were go. |ing,to spend tt to buy @ shipyard jdown In Olympia. And I inquired around at the roads bridges committee and sald, ‘What do you want a shipyard for?” “Well,” he said, “they are going to put a lot of trucks In it.” I said, “Don't thowe trucks go out 7 *y go out all over arious counties,” you going to use Well.” he sald, | He came hack lat |were going to there, “Well,” T said, “My friend, sup. | pose @ truck gets broke down over jim Asotin county. You are not going |to bring ft to Olympia to repair It, Jare your" Suicide Bequeaths “T don’t know.” rand told me they repalr the trucks PARIS, jting Feb. 9.—Before commit- uicide In a cafe, Henri Perritat be dissected for scientific purposes. Judge Tells Secret of Connubial Bliss CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Justice Cairns advised a husband tn his court to find a home just as far as posalble |from his mother-in-law, Dancers Travel 30 Miles in Evening PARIS, Feb. 9—Dances are now |held from 10 p. m. to 5 a. m., during | which time a couple taking the floor for every dance cover about 30 miles, “Merry Widow” Miss Marie Wells “Charming” 1s the word that most adequately describes Marlo Wolls, the talented young prima donna with “The Merry Widow" company, at the Metropolitan next week. Migs Wells Js not only the possexsor of youth and comeliness, but of a voice and acting ability of no mean quality, Altho sho is but a slip of a girl aho has already conquered blase Brond- way, Where she became prima donna overnight within a year after she loft her native town of Cleveland, Mins. {oslppl, to conquer the theatrical pro- fousion, Mins Wells entered the musical world as understudy for Eleanor Painter in the revival of “Worodora,” and quickly rone to prima, donna rolen, Hor first Broad. way engagement in this poxltion being with “Pitter Patter” at the Longacre, In thin role sho svored a personal triumph, altho the plece itwelf wan « failure Body to Scientists | Wrote @ note directing that his body | ta man, #0 far me out of his Was ponatble,”* they would. Hut the administration ¥ and we got @ total of 19 v« that And it ts true that Nineteen votes One m sued—the only argu ment tn fact that waa presented in | favor of this was that they had spent a dred tho: 4 doll month jfor the past tw Ifore thin sald, there And 1 of new ‘Those men are work employ and they fore us and prove the apd wan reasonable “There is a majority | members here. for rust come t |fucts. I cannot see any objection to turning the light jaction or any t of ® But apparently they ¢ to vtrain at a pnat |they had swallowed « camel }THRER KINDS OF |MEN DOWN THERE co kinds of men down the ren that you ing new orn, upon tt th ’ action whe te money when I meet th thera I meet men of t are fundamentally ‘Then you meet the man who you know ts fun =. He rest he ts iden right amentally wron. me in 1 with in some way that he won't is there for » tif be fair. Then you meet the o hate him than the other }that you never know where he ts | He tx the man that fs with you now Jand against you five minutes from |now. There are lots of those birds ldown there. I-take my duties rather serfously worne \nerioux business to pass any law that affects a million and a half of peo Yet I hear the duties of office Jown there spoken of jokingly. They leay, “It don't matter what you do. The folka back he know anything about it, anyway. No mat ter which way you vote on there things, they don They won't know, and they wouldn't care If they laid k T can't concelrp tt ts trus, and 1 don't intend to manction any such doctrine as that. I think sertously 6 won't care office upon certain principles and | the trust and confidence of the | people who ele him, jdown there and deliberately betrays them, has w treason. (Applause). ‘Any man who on the field of battle given ald and ne is whot, and I think that ts a and | Now, there | pretty good regulation in this country, and many times the man who gives ald and comfort to them ts honored by position and by high place. That 1s a regretatle thing. But T bellewe an time goes on we are turning on the light more jand more. THE THRER POWER BILLS Now, there ts a bill coming up be fore this legislature tn which the lines are very clearly drawn. known as the power bill. I want to tell you a little about that, There are. three proposals, House bill No. 1 provides that cities shall have the right to wll electrical energy outside of their city lmite, | provided they pay a 5 per cent tax. | Houne bil! No. lenergy outside of thelr elty mits |without tax. A third bill haw been produced by the speaker of tho house providing that no city shall have the right to sell electrical power ten to Its own citizens without pay: ing a tax of & per cent, We had a meeting down there last Tuesday night. At that time the attorney for the Washington Water Power Co, which {# subsidiary to Spokane, and Mr. Brockett, attorney here. It was a very interesting eve: ning. These gentlemen told us that the city beyond the limits, Mind you, when reduced to its simplest terms, ft Is simply this: If we go out into the hills and find a big water site and bring it down and develop it Into power, we can nell it to this line, but wo haven't any right to go any fur- ther, Judge Post said tt was soctaliam. Imagine a man who wants to use that julce who lives beyond the city limits. You can't imagine that it would be socialism from his point of view, enn you? Yet he suid that to give him service was merely social- tam. He declined to answer the ques: tion whether he was down in the tn- terest of preventing the legislature | from becoming soclalistic, MUCH PROFIT IN POWER. BUSINESS Now, there j* a great deal of profit in this buminess, It ts a tremendous business. Over in tho city of Tacon® they took In about $1,200,000 last year In the city plant. They mado a net profit, allowing for depreciation and everything—they made over $800,000 net profit. You can imaging what fs to be made by the Stone & Webster Interests in thiv state, They have It fixed so thoy are bound to make something, They are bound to make tremendous prof: its, ‘They have the law arranged so they can do {t. Public utilities in this state, when they go before the county assessor, present certain fig: ures for thelr valuation, bis service board, which fixes thelr rates, they present an entirely differ. ont sot of figures, There are public utilities In thlw state valued at a mil. lion dollara for purposes of asseuw ment, According to law, that is their |true value-—a miliion dollurs, They turn right around and face the bonrd of public works in Olympla and say, “Our value i# six million dollars,” and the board of public works ab lows them 11 per cent Interest on that; 8 per cent of which is for de preciation. You ean figure out what their profite are if they are really worth @ million dollars as they toil down there. I think ft {pretty | at the man who ts elected to public | are certain enemies of government | provides that cities | shall have the right to sell electrical | principal speakers were Judge Post, | the Stone & Wobster interests, in| for the Stone & Woebster interests | no right to sell power! When they go before the public! tt tn thi th tell the superintendent of the board ot it They told over there of the great |our own tse? tn’ ng than t) at? (Cries of It elaw, ‘T in the © you put sta ive rw And ft was not put there tn the | tro at all, And 1 this state. | 5 cen uid |e if tho interests were bearing folr port of the taxes of |cor Bu yoran't blow hot 4 cold at the They n't tell the are |p rth only a and | of oir on In state tr wame tne AW, n dollar wennor, mili an why let But they aredoing pm works, “We are worth any and they are getting away wrh tt. | go vestments that they had tn this | pia We ! t up it m th er terpr H mes from comen from ie, that is where ave one-nixteenth of tle water wer of the nutic Washin Do you tell me that teen poops mill stand by and from Bteetan_or that we can’ Jevelop tt for that. (A (Ap y any gentlemen find We And wo wi one elne into the hills 1 do that state and of how those inverthents | plaune), I Ar re you jband that spent of * t |pr fa | {ie {was a part of the forest lroserve | | | | | | | | and goes) hin him the blood of | comfort to the enemy ts @ traitor, | } | | | | It ts! | | cht be 4 ardized, They » you realize that every at you spend up here in thenitis| men from e's pockets?” a we answered in this way:"We ze the great have made, BIL cn the peo thal but the other | wit ery doll at Younave | ay has come out of the pekets © people of this state ti the of rates.”" pu our ws me When w iok in the her t It proje y| 4 ublic property ay erty, but there m we don't have to pay fc and + and that ttm we for if Btone 4 ¥ T private ut or any othe ¢ property. thi me: us me I think tm this matte, took t we in a On faid it would tak¢ lots of | ‘operty off the tax rolls. Ree how | us ne Skagit project, for hstance, tah bese owned by the governhent up ever a great interest ba There ai foud that fs when youl anatyze| and pi the face of the eart A, HAS NO ANCE TO PASS ut do tb thi nu h ary 1 they nd from tthe ki noble you know, I don’ legis They tak into a room, they fill them nents feed the are y thle the man motn the f fo 4 fur ahd thing! th selfish! fewias # the ed every 8} bad. of the ¢ re of this govern-| t ng that © he face rt , those who been n crime down there, expect tol keep at It. 1 ds, Ye cant hope ; but jus not be too nt, because | This tor And T tell you that when ners, this si tell an sure as the 1, if |these men succeed in de. feating the right of the people of tol or any other state to Im. 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