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Show State Barriers to Trade Z ANGER of the setting up of 48 separate trade - Z U walls around each of the states in the - Union, thus hampering and restricting the free flow of commerce within the nation, was empha-" empha-" sized in the keynote address at the Western States Motor Carriers' conference Friday in Salt Lake City. The speaker warned that the unnecessarily severe restrictions placed by states on truck ' movements from other states are "becoming an - alarming situation." This newspaper heartily agrees with that ; view. The world has seen the stagnation of - trade and business which has resulted from national na-tional barriers erected by various countries in a futile and costly attempt to protect their individual in-dividual national economies by restricting or prohibiting imports from other nations. We can well imagine) what a crippling blow similar barrier raised by each of the 44 states would be to American trad and business. As matter of fact there is only a hairline ; dividing many of these state truck regulations I ( from a state tariff which is expressly forbidden I ; by the constitution. Fortunately Utah has comparatively reason- . able laws in respect to regulation of out-of- state trucks, as the speaker declared. But it is well that the evil of too much regulation be recognized in this state, and in every state, so that it will be held to a minimum. |