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Show AVOID PITFALLS. j It is Eaid thstt the estimates of the various state departments for the ensuing ensu-ing year make a grand total of about $1,300,000 in excess of "Utah's possible revenues for that period. And yet there are those who seek to impose upon the state experimental legislation which will increase the already al-ready too heavy burden of taxation. One of the proposals is a public utili ties commission. In Idaho, where con-i con-i ditiona are similar to those which prevail pre-vail in our own state, widespread dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction has arisen with the public utilities commission. It is more than , j probable that Idaho, led astray by the j newness of the institution, considered it a reform which every state should ; adopt. The people of Idaho have dis covered that what may be highly desir- able, efficient and beneficial in one state may be worse than useless in another. In Utah there are two con- . spicuous reasons why the public utili j ties commission would be an absolute evil. TVe have but a small mileage in I railroads as compared with larger states j . where utility boards are considered es-j es-j sential. "We would be paying, there-j there-j fore, a high price for a commission and its operation. Even if its jurisdiction ap- plied to power companies as well as to i the railroads, the board would have very : little to do. The commission would not I earn its salt. On the contrary the state would be out many thousands of dol-j dol-j A, lars each year to pay for the exr-eri-i merit. j J The Tribuue has already pointed out j , the necessity of bein conservative in ! - these times of business depression. 1 ' These are not the time3 for experiment. They are the times when every wi? . legislator who has the interests of his : etate completely at heart should seek 1 ; rather to preserve the good things we have than to rush headloDg into pit- : falls of experiment. |