Show legislation in a time of calm with elections over and legislature still to convene it may be well to consider our needs and thinking them over press the urgent matters before those who represent us in the legislatures the gentlemen we elect are purely public servants chosen and paid to enact for the 0 individual pure foods and pure drugs first and foremost the legislature ot of utah should pass a pure food law the law that was passed by congress this year and that has received so much hearty endorsement should be taken as a copy revised to mee meet local conditions and passed without dissent it is a fact little known that the congressional pure food bill relates only to the district ot of columbia and is of benefit only to the dwellers of washington utah needs the same inspection of meats needs to know what is in her baking powder and molasses other states are already drafting and passing like laws and the states that fall to dr do so will be flooded with the from protected states we need protection also from the avaricious medicine man lie ife who lias has to pay heavy for his testimonials by the thousand who has to buy up payers papers and magazines to land his wares must defraud the public and use injurious chemical substitutes to come out more than equal when peruna passes over the country it should be labeled poor alcohol so that the bublic may know the article which it consumes the catarrh cures should bear labels stating their ingredients and the amount of cocaine they contain that tha unsuspicious persons may not be duped into f falling a lulng nto into the fri frightful 0 taul 1 habit and die d le slaves laves p to 0 0 vicious drug it if the public wants alum in lt it bagloe apsy or wolfe n tul xi or cherry cough syrup or fake aliquo zone or fraud electric belts why let it have them one or all but the state of utah ought to be responsible only so far as it plainly states the true contents of the package bought you cant tool fool the people all the time north dakota has a good law mr legislator copy it insurance regulation As important almost are some en ell actions regulating insurance companies lesan in the state I 1 make the statement advisedly that there are some life insurance rince companies in this state some that have even originated here that are on shaking foundations at this moment these are some that exist solely while they may for the prem they can collect while their risks are good they do not intend the he words thoy they inscribe on their beautiful policies should a scourge or devastation of nature bring them quickly to grayer hair they could do nothing else than close their doors there thi ere ar are companies in utah offering policies to our people at a rate positively I 1 too low to be safe there is a positive cost to a company in carrying a risk now along comes two companies offering you both a life and health policy for a sum per annum of two dollars less than the actual mst cost that experience proves to pi be safe and sure the legislature of utah should drift from most asce lepa baw ay 4 a law for us ua that will we ireen pd out the wildcat companies and insure our citizens positive safety and security as they pay their yearly premiums health laws the board of health of utah and of this county does good work it endeavors to live up to the laws as they now exist we need an air improvement pro at present the diseases of small pox for instance Is quarantined with all strictness while the disease of whooping cough Is omitted all who know insist that thesis this is not right four times as many deaths per hundred result from whooping cough as result from small pox for the sake of pupils safety for the sake of your children ask of the coming leg rs lature a law requiring the same restrictions strict ions on whooping cough as la Is required of other deadly diseases asylum for feebleminded Feeble minded during the past year judge siau lan ghan of our district court has bar had to refuse several cases admission to the state ale mental antal asylum at provo prove at present there Is positively no provision made for the care and education of feeble minded children such children occur in our midst not only to be neglected and ruined fiut but even to remain a decided menace to neighbors and the neighborhood from all part the state camesa similar cry all older states conduct schools f tor for the feeble minded utah is old enough to have what she so badly needs E A R |