Show CONSIDERING THE SUBSTITUTE In considering the substitute for the Cannon bill which has been introduced into the legislature we trust as a preliminary the the tho senate senate will have first read read tho the editorial in the News informing the legislature that the modern tendency is toward making too many laws that it will vilI then reflect that it li t is useless to pass laws unless they are arc obeyed The effect of such failure to obe obey and enforce laws lows already made s is particularly in iii evidence e in Utah The rite members of the senate cannot fail to o realize that hal had there been beena a strict enforcement of some ome very righteous laws it itt Utah the chances are arc ninety in ill a hunell hundred rl that some of the gentlemen who framed this substitute would now nm be on the underground or in ri a still more secure place and their anxiety about where board and clothes and something to drink would at nt least for the present be he over o Then if the question of carrying weapons was up It ft would hardly do to submit the matter to u a vote ote of the les though that would be of the same nature as to submit the tho que of what the themen themen men in Salt Lake shall or ha f shall l not drink drink to Sanpete and nud St. St George Georg Those gentlemen down south have too much advantage advantage ad nd- vantage antage in the matter The They know kno that if the worst t comes the they can all produce an al article of Dixie wine that will not only lUal make e drunk runk come hut but that it can cnn keep a wan man drunk for a week which is no fair fau shake for foi 01 I people who live JiyO in colder climates and arid have u few tropical luxuries There is no gentleman in Utah who better hetter titan than Apostle Heher J. J Grant knows that a statute nor even a constitutional amendment can compel a man manto manto manto to obe obey the laws unless he lie pla es to that is in iii Utah of f course and md that while lI le Salt Lake continues to produce produce pro pro- duce a large annual crop of male and female hoodlums hood hood- lums luins tuns and the church continues to maintain Saltair an and night bathing trains which are arc but hut dimly lighted and have no guards nards it ii looks as though as-though the first need is some training in in the requirements of decency and to inculcate self re respect and respect for others before before before be be- fore there is a large prospect for making people goo good through arbitrary statutes The state needs need a new new- capitol capital To Fro build it it is necessary to sell some bonds That is a tion which every Q taxpayer er is interested in iii and a n full expression from them should be obtained But to couple that with a n question which is of no present interest to the people except such as has been worl worked ed up ill chiefly by bJ a few fanatical priests is isa isa isa a misjoinder which no sensible ible senate should permit pet The legislative e session has hns but a few days a s 's to run ruin Its remaining time should be devoted de to legitimate business |