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Show H Craniums Impenetrable! f H At this writing that eminent jurist. Judge Bow. H man, has not yet ruled upon the motion to dls- M miss made by the defense in the friendly test H case of the tobacco blue law brought by C. W. M May, but in all probability the case will be dis- H missed. H Corporation Counsel W. J. Barrette at the trial H of the case on Wednesday, said in effect that he fl realized that the city had no case, and that the M operation of cigar stands was not in violation of M the ordinance. On top of this, Mayor (in name H only) Samuel C. Park remarks that if the ordin M ance is destroyed, the state law will prevail, and m the court's decision will probably be a guido for fl future action. M This would seem to be n key to the entire M situation, and that after the decision of said em- M "inent jurist is made, authorities other than city M authorities will be required if possible to enforce M the fool laws made by a cow county legislature, M not in a spirit of actual reform, but as a direct M blow to Salt Lake City. This Was their original M intent and now seems to be a fair way of being M carried out. M In other words, the attitude of the corporation B counsel in the friendly suit is nothing more or M less than a trick to burden this city with the M idiotic blue laws which the commission in reality fl wants to see enforced, but now, in the face of the M storm of protest, for which they seemingly care M little, prefer to have the legislature, which made m the law, bear the brunt of the blame. M It is all such a dirty outrage that it is difficult M to discuss the matter dispassionately. Certainly M this so-called commission does not realize the M immeasurable harm it is doing Salt Lake City, or M else it has no regard whatever for the weltare of M the community, for had it a proper appreciation M of the damage it is doing, its actions would be M little less than criminal. Everyone in every M sphere of life should have a boss, so to speak, H that is someone or some party or something to m account to. The men in this commission were VA elected on a so called business ticket and now m that the election is over, they are just a bunch of M mavericks, plunging across the range, and mak- m ing it uncomfortable for the thoroughbreds they m represent; tearing up the ground, smashing the m fonces, evading the men on horseback, and be H Heving that they can eventually escape being B properly branded. M For the past two consecutive Saturdays and M Sundays, city papers all over the United States H with big No. 1 heads, are laughing at Salt Lake M and its blue laws. On Sunday last some special H yarns appeared on the coast in which there was B an implied warning to tourists to keep away fl from Salt Lake. Perhaps a great deal that has m been written and sent out has been exaggerated H by special correspondents, but there has been no A1 exaggeration in the Associated Press reports, m just straight news matter, and these reports H have been used broadcast to the ultimate defama B tion and detriment of the city and state, which Kf has1 already had in the past pretty nearly enough M to contend with in the way of unsavory publicity. B The damage that is being done is not temp- fl orary; it is a whole lot easier to spread these re- B ports, especially inasmuch as they are true, than BH to have them refuted in the event that a bit of H light should by any chance break in to the five B profound omniums whose owners are doing their H level best to set the city back twenty years. N It is all up to the commissioners; theirs is all Bg of the blame; there is no one else to consider in H the matter except In the dim past those "oters Bfl who were so sure they wanted a change. Pff God knows, they got it! H What hundreds of those voters hae said about Bli this commission during the past four weeks is too voluminous and too profane to put in the columns of a newspaper. As wo have reiterated time and again it is perfectly natural that certain members of 'the commission, two in particular, should make it possible to inflict on a whole community exhumed ex-humed ideas carried across the country to the middle west by the ghouls who would not let them rest with the forefathers at Salem. But how it is possible for other members of that commission com-mission to sit idly by and permit the asinino work to go on, is only comprehensible in the belief be-lief that they have been hypnotized, converted, do not know their own minds, or are cowards. Mayor elect Samuel C. Park, what have you got to say for yourself in permitting without a protest the present state of affairs to exist? We don't care where you say it, in any ward meeting house that you intend to preach in on a near-Sunday, but for the love of Mike say it say something, some-thing, do something to demonstrate that you are not clay in the hands of a couple of potters, one who is an expert in designing, and one who is as big a boob apprentice as ever assisted at the job oi being mayor for the mayor. Commissioner Lawrence, is your mouth closed too? You are a venerable, honorable man, who has h'ad the respect of this community for many years, a community which has always Imagined you had strength enough to assert yourself par tlcularly in matters affecting the welfare of the city. Do you realize that you are assisting in the work of making business men wonder whether the best thing to do is to buy a one-way ticket or not? And what about you. George D. Keyser? You have been rated as a good business man, with a AS I REMEMBER THEM. (Continued from Pago 4.) ried on so long his vitality had been well nigh exhausted. He had been a most material factor in the transformation of Montana. He had not been much disciplined in his youth and he fretted at any opposition; then, too, between his mighty success and the insidious disease that was even then creeping upon him, he became impatient and sometimes arrogant; generous to a fault himself, anything like ingratitude awakened in him a fierce desire for vengeance, and he did some things which hurt Montana, but they weighed as nothing compared with the good he had done the state; the unheralded and unmeasured help he had been to scores and hundreds of his fellow fel-low men. He carried on a tremendous work there for years, out of a multitude of difficulties he finally fin-ally wrought a magnificent success, but in the work he forfeited every chance to enjoy a peaceful peace-ful old age, for he died just wnen he should have been In his prime. His death caused profound sorrow all over Montana; to this day there are hundreds of men there who will tell as the tears run down their faces that there never was but one Marcus Daly; so great was he; so clean his life; so great was his heart; so high his soul. When Montana builds her hall of fame, in a sculptured niche where the sunbeams will play upon it all the day long and weave golden ha'os around his brow, will be the statue of Marcus Daly. |
