Show STICK TO YOUR TRADE Bradstreets may be a very good authority au-thority on trade and commercial transactions trans-actions but it Is out of its place and has its trolley off in trying to take an excursion into Utah politics Financial organs had better mind their own business busi-ness and leave that of other people and papers alone or at any rate should be sure they are right before they rush in on a path where ignorant feet should fear to tread That business paper has tried to cast ridicule on the Utah constitutional constitu-tional convention for adopting as Its initial action the Constitution of he United States And it asserts in a wouldbe wise and pedagogical style that this action would seem to indicate indi-cate that the delegates have not clearly realized the fact that from the beginning begin-ning of the existence of the territory it has been living and must for the future continue to live without the exercise of any volition of its own under un-der that same constitution The writer of that wonderful rece of unbleached and shoddy sarcasm indicates in-dicates without any seeming that he is In need of instruction in the elementary elemen-tary rules of state constitution framing fram-ing and also of the provisions of the enabling act under which the State of Utah is to be organized He should I learn the simple fact that the formal adoption of the national constitution by a state convention Is usually one of the first steps taken in framing the organic law for a new state Also that this Is one of the requirements in the Act of Congress authoring the Utah state convention and without compliance compli-ance with which all lis labors wiuld be void Tell us the price of calico and coffee the progress of commerce and the status of trade dear Bradstreets and leave us to our own work wlich we know far more about than you pear to understand Every one to his hade yours evidently Is not that of instructing I in-structing others in the principles of I fundamental law |