[5] He served only a single term in the provincial legislature, sitting in the back benches on the Government (Liberal) side of the Legislative Assembly.
This book sets forth a claim for the end of the protective tariff that is "designed to build up Canadian industries," mostly located in central Canada.
He also called on the federal government to grant Alberta control of its natural resources and Crown lands (finally achieved in 1929).
He wrote "We are not urging the secession of the West from the East but we are endeavouring to show that such a result must ensue unless a change in her system of colonial government is made by Canada."
He and Henry Marshal Tory, president of the UofA, co-wrote a report on rural credit reform (to address the need for low-interest farm loans).
[9] After his death a portrait of Moore was commissioned by Premier Arthur Lewis Sifton and was displayed in the legislature for many years.