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Show SUCH ECONOMY A FARCE Tuesday afternoon this week we had the pleasure pleas-ure of seeing and hearing the Utah state legislature in action. One impressive incident was the flow of eloquence emitted by the senator from Weber county. coun-ty. After successfully urging the passage of a bill to reduce the salaries of the officers of his own home county, thus making a saving of the munificent sum of six hundred dollars, he plead with much pathos and fervor for the senate to pass the bill carrying an appropriation of $100,000 for the purpose of erecting a monument on the capitol grounds. The monument is to perpetuate the memory of the pioneers of Utah. Those pioneers need no greater monument to successfully perpetuate their memory than the great state of Utah and its capital city which they founded. Every new development of the marvelous resources of this western country is but an additional ornament to that great monument, the foundation of which those same pioneers laid for themselves. It is such false and foolish economy, "penny wise and pound foolish," that will make the burden of the new settlers of this state the harder to bear and thus postpone the development of the country's resources. The News is highly in favor of monuments. We admire beautiful statuary and other works of art. But we are in favor first of having plenty of bread and meat for the hungry and other necessities of life before taking the poor man's money to erect monuments monu-ments for any purpose. And the most of the taxes are the poor man's burden. o |