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Show .. ..... 4 THE CITIZEN of the proposed law it is possible for a hunter to go out every day season and get a deer. .However, if each deer killed had to be tagged, giving name of hunter and' license number, it would become a hard matter'to defeat, the aims of the law. Shooting of ducks ought to be allowed on the Strawberry reser- voir. The closing of the duck season ought to be extended to January 15 of each year, in order that it would be universal in all the counties of the state. , The proposed bill provides for sink boxes to be used on lakes and sloughs as may be designated by the state commissioner. This would Create trouble as the hunters of one section of the country have as much right to shoot from sink boxes as those have of another section. The state should not be allowed to dispose of any fish fry or spawn as provided in the new bill. If there is a surplus, which there should not be in this state, it should be turned over to the United States hatcheries or to neighboring, states. Let us not take the eggs from ourfish and then sell them. . The present bill does not prohibit the shipping of catfish out of this state, and under this bill the market fishermen will reap a harvest and after the first year catfishing will be where it was several had a years ago when a similar law was in force. The sportsmen hard time to stop the shipping of catfish out of the state. For several years no one could catch one of these fish. The seiners kept them down. A few fish ought to be left for those who buy licenses. The bill also provides a special license for taking cats other than with a seine but does not state how these fish shall be taken other than they shall be taken by and under the instructions of the state commissioner. At the present time catfish are taken with setlines and fish traps. Fish traps ought not to be allowed anywhere under a heavy, penalty. The law should also state specifically how and where all kinds of fish and game may be taken and by what means in order that convictions can be secured in the courts in all cases of violation. The experimental stage has been gone through with years ago and the provisions of the bill should be made positive, and the law should provide the best means for protection and propagation of our fish and game. ' . - . . of the state. Let us cut taxation to the minimum and keep our people at home instead of driving them out by high rents and taxes. CANNOT BUY ARMS HERE. Blood money is not wanted in the United States. Many efforts, have recently been made to purchase ammunition and firearms iir ' this country but President Harding will not stand for it, and this is as it should be and it will remain so, according to what was said at the White House the other day. Recently the government of one of the European nations not one of those engaged in the present tangle over reparations made representation through diplomatic business channels that it would like to purchase arms and ammunition, and asked for terms. The proposition was that the government could very readily sell at least $500,000 worth of rifles. President Harding did not consider the proposal seriously enough to call it to the attention of the War department. The President holds that to sell arms to nations or individuals would be to encourage conflict, and Mr. Harding is determined that so long as he is president there shall be no sale of discarded government arms or munitions to any nation or individuals. The president, however, fully realizes that it is quite within the law for nations or individuals to buy arms and munitions from manufacturers. QUICK TIME TO THE SCAFFOLD. ' Whatever we may think of the merits of capital punishment, . . TAXATION CAUSES UNREST. The state legislature, has been in session since January 8 but so far nothing has been done, or even suggested, to reduce the high taxation. of the. people. 'It is a Republican legislature and the ers on the sidelines are daily praying that the legislators will do in order away with all unnecessary commissions and political jobs that a big cut may be made in taxes and the present heavy burden on the people reduced. States adjoining us are giving the tax problems their first tion. Idaho is cutting her tax account about 28 per cent, and reforms are being inaugurated in all cities, counties and states out the Union. It is simply got to be done. The tax burdens of the people have become so great that a startling uneasiness has been .created throughout the country, and it is up to the various legislators to straighten out these tax burdens. Up to the present time there has been no definite action taken by our legislators, although in some instances there has been a n payroll. The ency of making increases on the already over-ladeRepublican boys are not feeling in the best of spirits over the matter because in two years hence there will be another election and they want to go over the top again. The Democrats are not worrying much but hope the cans do not wake up because it will then be a certainty for them to go over the top in two years from now. There is a great deal of work to be done, which is demanded by the people, and unless this work is. faithfully performed by our Rers at the present time, how do they expect to go publican before the people two years hence and ask for Taxation of the automobile ought to be reduced to a point where . . it belongs and be placed on the same basis as all other taxable property. The horse when in his prime was never taxed like the automobile and just because the people deserted the poor old horse for a more modern mode of travel is no reason that the auto should be taxed out of existence. The people do not expect the legislature to do the impossibly but they do expect their business representatives of that most august and official body to place the government of the state upon a safe and sound business basis in order to make it a safe investment for all those who wish to buy homes here and for the business interests - law-make- re-electi- on? the execution in England of Mrs. Thompson and Bywaters, furnishes an example of prompt administration of justice that might well be emulated in this country, says the Republican Publicity association, through its president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr. The murder was committed on October 4. Exactly ninety-seve- n days later the murderers paid the penalty with their lives. In the meantime they had been given every right that the law allows. They had been tried and found guilty by a jury. They had taken an appeal and the appellate court had heard the case and affirmed the judgment of the lower court. Then they had appealed to the British home office and finally to the king himself, all of which action is permitted by the British law. The culprits were granted every essential right that murderers have under the American law. The difference was that needless delays were eliminated, sentence was pronouned when the verdict was returned, and no action was permitted the effect of which would have been only to cause delay with no assurance that a greater degree of justice would be accorded the defendants. The punishment followed so promptly after the crime that the British public clearly saw the relation between the criminal act and its penalty, and the executions had their full effect as a deterrent to others who might otherwise commit murder. There are two objects in administering punishment the reform of the criminal so that he may be taught never to repeat the offense, and the example to others who may be similarly inclined. In the case of capital punishment the latter object is the only one, and that is lost and the purpose of the law defeated, if too long a time is permitted to elapse between the murder and the execution of the criminal. The public mind forgets the details of the crime, and sees only a helpless individual put to death by an inexorable and cruel law. |