Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-03 | Page 11 | Encouraging Hypocrisy

c I Encouraging Hypocrisy I o s sT LA T I AWS WS are arc made to be observed If they an art a af f needs de demands at conflict with current or popular mands they should be repealed Statutes which whit h ar are arc f forgotten and measures which are not e enforced en en- n forced ar arof ore e not calculated to uphold the majest s of the law lav j In the present organization of society law vs Sire ire essential to the welfare of the people Hence e 1 J Is necessary that regulations for human con can co n duct a ct be enforced The authority of all laws i is s voted In the people One law has no more i 4 authority than another J Y Police Potice officers and prosecutors are not exI expected ex ex- tit I petted to distinguish between laws ws or between betwee n r persons Under our government there is n nr no 0 r h si sanction dJon for enforcing one law and ignoring an- an r other Neither is there sanction for prosecuting g Cne man and granting immunity to another fo for forthe r the same or similar offenses The courts are th the e detern determining ning factors concerning violations of th the e law lav People who rail nil at the efforts of Sheriff Sherif f Harries to enforce the law fail to tak take e this Into consideration The legislature which passed the law started the difficulties We Ve believe the 11 stupid It makes a hundred huns hun hun- s i deed died dred or more lawbreakers where there was V one n before It has created nothing but hypocrisy I Men who are sworn to uphold the law violate violat e It daily L Legislators who help make the laws Ignore It A few months ago preliminary to the trial of a violation of this law the judge the prosecutor the attorney for the defense court Curt attaches and witnesses smoked in a public building as they proceeded to the courtroom To our mind are to be preferred t to 0 this hypocrisy The law with all its despicable features either can be enforced or i it t cannot If it cannot in justice to the nobler noble r statutes It should be repealed It is as much the duty of the legislature to repeal laws which h have bare fallen into disrespect and cast an odium o on n all laws as it is to devise new m measures measures Th The e pr present t legislature accepts responsibility for th the e law if it fails to change it Polka Police officers are in no way to blame for I this law They are subject to when n they fall fail to enforce it y are smoked as astr tr freely ly as ever The supply Is inexhaustible The only difference is that the local public pays more moret t for tor what It purchases on the local market Shipments Ship- Ship meats marts from other states cannot be stopped A big mall maU order traffic in is bound to follow successful t suppression of illegal megal sales in This encourages general patronage for outside concerns handicapping Utah business and Increasing Utah taxes The Salt Lake county sheriff In enforcing the law is merely carrying out the Instructions of the last legislature legisla legisla- ture If this s Is contrary to the wishes of the people or 01 the desires of the members of the rising existing legislature the law should be repealed