| Show MINING AND OTHER BUSINESS AGAIN FIGHTING FOR BREATHING SPACE f 1 every two years the people and tax taxpayers akerso of f this s state fa te are called upon aponto to select and elect f from rom among I 1 their r fell fellow ow citizens a majority of the member membership hip comprising 1 the legislature the lawmaking law makin making 9 body of the commonwealth w edath I 1 ani and every two years the people and the taxpayers receive cefie they the pre election promises promise 8 of their legislative tn representatives ta tives that their best interests will be c conserved 0 i and that economy and square dealing will be the watchword and that they may be trusted to make good their promises cothey do they do it some of them seem to try most of them seem to lose all sense of responsibility to their aon con acy and others forget that they ever had any we have a right to inquire why even though that is all the g 9 od it will do 1 the mining milling and smelting smelling sm elting industry in this state Js is tle biggest thing we have to boast df 0 f and it is faced ae d h heavier than any other industry but for all that tha i t a sal t ake county member of the house wants a bill put pui through that will vil 1 compel the mining industry to contribute about a million hon dollars a year more why it cannot be possible that alie e people of this county whose whole prosperity and w well ell being bein is so intimately concerned inthe successful operation our xi mines iines mills and smelters shelters sm elters want to see the industry crippled slowed down or killed and if they do not what excuse has thia tin reprise representative i tor for taki taking ng the stand lie ile ha faken Is I 1 she d simply bent on killing the goose that lays the golden egg Z if so he should be tapped capped on the sh shoulder and 4 whispered ta of co course urse there are too many sensible men i athe I 1 legislature e to td permit such a pernicious measure as that referred to becoming a law but t ut it illustrates how littlee 1 gard gaid gai d come ome men hive have for the public welfare once they a are re clothed i in n brief authority all they seem to care coristo risto fo get the money and make appropriations th atwill eat eaf it up then there is another bunch of good samari samaritana samaritans Samar itans ians at the ans state capitol building who seem bent on telling and directing 9 a number i r of the larger cities of the state how to conduct their business affairs they are proposing 1 J a scheme which if enacted into la law w willon will on p petition edition of a measly ten per cent of the taxpayers of sa salt lt lake and ogden for force borcean cean an ele election 0 ot a new board of city commissioners or directors oneat one of which shall be ma mayor y or to carry out the behesta behests beh ests apparent apparently t lly of a coterie of gentlemen an clemen in each 0 of f these cities who ho have already planned just how they want these cities run As fat far as salt sa lt L lake a ke is conc concerned erne d this change will va amount to little only that the new council will be require ired to appoint a city manager manag er who most likely will be able to tell the council members to go to whenever at anything is stig suggested that is hott in accord with the wishes of his reat real boss athe the power behind the throne now salt lake is is a pretty big town and it is inco inconceivable that another election would result in filling the jobs with better bette average men men than those now conducting the cai cites ays anal rs so on the face of it there is s some onie ulterior motive in in dem oe manding i a change what that motive m may ay be can only be u surmised but ut it will be understood after afdera a gullibly wa cow n ii has passed over the reins and whip to the driver there are a lot of other schemes being hatched up and nursed along during this session of the legislature which scheming politic politicians ians are trying to put over and it will be a wonder if an adjournment is had without more harm than good having be been en accomplished the real business interests of the state and all the people concerned have elected members of the legislature to serve them and now they have got to go before these same men and fight for breathing space in which to plead for justice and the square deal which was promised them when their representatives were chosen its hell aint it |
