| Show FARMERS VOTE how they should be cast THE N EED ED LAWS IN UTAH I 1 horticultural board ment inspection spec tion tax equalization bee inspection etc I 1 editor enquirer for some years the farmers ot of our state have been complaining of legislation as being oppre oppressive sive and to their clas we are inci inclined lined ined to believe that there is much foundation for this complaint the ibe cattle men man found that the greatest peet peat they hal bai to contend with was he be meat inspector hence they immediately fret to end and bed the meat inspection spec tion law repealed the bee ki apera soon scon leannea le arnert that the bee inspectors were of no benefit to the bee industry and in rainy miny cases bhame a nuisance ani hence benca they brought about such amendments to tha bee inspection spec tion law as to enable them to pro cure care for inspectors good goad efficient and pan practical men men soon learned that the lawe lawa under which flock inspectors operate were so defective as to be so GO go got the law repealed we hold bold that dundr the inadequate suit and aneff ineffective etive al laws now u an on our statute beoka t the fruit in inspectors cannot do effective ark w rk this b true less of the ability and fitness for the positions which irs may possess besides the law practically precluded the possibility of ee caring aig for these positions men at the time the present law was banging in the balance ance a strong from our state s society ciely waited on the governor aad made a vigorous cs protest against it the 1 governor Jo vernor to be much in the same position as 83 was the ancient bibi cal kine we read of when he be sald sai daul Faul almost abou persua Iest me ac and in the emergency and perplexed state ot ol mind lor for relief he be returned to the actor dy general atter after some deliberation in his bia mind replied that this act attempted to create a state board of horticulture without providing any authority for far calling a meeting 1 ind and transacting trans business which ren derea tho the law practically null and that the only official function that could be performed by the state inspector was to draw his eal aal ary we dedire to call attention to the fact that there should be ba some immediate ira mediate legisla legislation doil looking toward the he perm permanent organization of cl a state board of ag which should have in hand the matter lf cf an annual state fair in tte the past ahrea years there has been to what is ia known upon our oar statute books and to the public as aa the D A M socie society tv 20 75 t by y oar r legislature for agricula agri agricultural cull aral fairs during which time there has been beld i eld bul bui one fair which was waa but bat a edo show in the attempt at a fair but bat one con cleion can be drawn that is ie this is ie due to the neglect and lack of it interest on the part of cf the man managers ayers ot of this association we arve repeatedly called attention to what seems to us ua to be ba an distribution trib ution of the tare and have held and now bald that the farmers fari aera are obliged to pay much more than their pro proportion of th 3 revenue the board of equalize equa liza lion raise the baxas this year on the merchandise of all the leading it corn mecal counties from 5 to 25 per ier cent we think thick the merchants are still paving less than their proper share of cf the taxa wal most beartle commend the action ot eba not cot for showing any havir to the farming fanning hut for bei beginning tinning to right the tha wrong oi of long standing we warn the farmers that already there 13 1 3 a mors more or less concerted action t to have at the me I 1 gi slature the obnoxious house bill which was indro aniro ducep in ia the clo closing days of the last SM 1013 the farmers well know that legina tion as a rule has been more or less directed against their interests tula tola will go just as aa long oas as they will allow it and will ony only stop aben they rise up and by the ballot protest against it it is our op pinion that if every ever legis dative district in the stat in which agricultural interest prelo minate will sead fend to the legislature next winter a rood good representative Pa bariner riner whether ha b democrat republican Jop aliat or what not that at least leas some of the injustices of the past may be ram idled we wa believe this good work can be best basest started arted by a legislature which will revoke tha charter of the D aa A 31 society and establish in its a regularly constituted board of which will have bare charge of the azri agricultural cultural fair sul an 1 all interest 0 parta pertaining ining to sarica hare and I 1 hor bordal bord al tare ili ih the state i I 1 A melfi a president P F A Spere secretary tarr |
