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Show HE SIGNS STATEMENT DEFINING HIS POSITION t the request of Harden Itenuioii. ccrctar of Mate, askuif,' that arKinnents as provitled hy law rcprccutiiir Iwth'sides on the projxjseil ameiidments to the coiiMilutiou on the taxation of mines ami mining properties be submitted to him on or More September 26th, Jesse Knight of I'rovo last Friday afternoon filed arguments against the pro-Kised pro-Kised tax. Kiiij-ht has lieeu .selected as the champion or sKkc.siuau of the opKition. Arj-tinienls for and against arc confined to five hundred words. Pamphlets coutainiiiK' the argument!, arc to be fjoltcn out by the secretary of state and furnished county clerks numbering one and one-fifth times the total registered voters m each county. Knight lus given the uewspaer.s this signed statement : "I have declined to make pnlilii I" my argument against the atloptiou of the amendment to the constitution constitu-tion or to engage in any public discussion dis-cussion of it until now, as I do not Ixilicvc that papers intended to become be-come official documents should la-made la-made public before they arc filed with the state. The law provides the maimer for presenting thin argument ar-gument to the people, ami I believe in following the law. "1 am ami have always been op-voscd op-voscd to attempts, unfortunately becoming be-coming too common, to evade, amplify am-plify or distort laws from their clear language ami purK.c. My argument argu-ment has been filed with the state, a provided by law, and further disposition dis-position of it is out of my hands. It expresses my sincere convictions ami I hope the voters wil not he misled into putting an) thing so iniquitous in-iquitous into the state constitution. "I ltelieve it is illegal for officers of' the state, who draw salaries paid hy taxes collected from the people to go about advocating measures that will come tip before the people at an election We have men at present, under the guise of other business, going about from place to place urging the adoption of the proposed amendment. "They are officeholders and are pledged under the law to give their services to state business and should not be jcrmitted to use their time ami the people's money to further their selfish interests or advocate their pet measures." |