Show I Why Laws Are re Not of Respected I That there is a lack of respect for law in the United States can cannot cannot not be questioned by any thinking person There are evidences every everyday I F day o of almost contempt for a majority of the statutes especially those passed by the states There is a very good reason for this unhappy condition So many foolish bills have been made into laws by incompetent thickheaded thick thickheaded thickheaded headed legislators that it has become impossible for the authorities r. to enforce any considerable portion of the laws and it is utterly ridiculous to expect sensible people to attempt to observe all of them It would be far better for a state to have only four or five laws 1 on its books and rigidly enforce every everyone one of them to the letter than i it is to have hundreds of laws not one of which is strictly enforced f all of the time on all of the the people Every time the open violation of a statute is permitted some t respect for law Jaw and order is lost J We would like to see some of the candidates for the Utah J legislature a studying laws that they would ask to be repealed if f elected l in November We Ve would want to vote for any candidate J. J Y I. I who who vho would give a solemn pledge that he would do everything in his i power power ower to have stricken from the statute books of Utah all laws that V have have proven so unnecessary and so unpopular with the people that the tl they ey have not been enforced V C ii A citizen who violates the law and goes gocs unpunished is like the r V child on whom its parent threatens but fails to administer punish punish- 5 for disobedience v In the last decade according to the Spokesman Review the lawmakers laws laws' law- law s' s makers of this nation a and d the states have written laws into the statute books The P parliament of England though legislating in part for the British empire overseas as well i as s for Great Britain and Ireland and their subdivisions enacted only 1600 laws in ill the same period Every person who is elected to the state legislature feels that his i name must be attached to at least one law to justify his election As a bad law is is much worse than no law at all this theory is a fallacy fallacy fallacy fal fal- lacy and anti one that should be be dispelled as soon as possible 1 The people would think much more of a legislator who would spend his time carefully safeguarding the public interests by studying studying study study- ing every measure introduced than they would of one who introduces indiscriminately a large number of measures that have no justification tion for adoption Our legal system is already tangled up in such a mess that even judges cannot agree on points of law I Lawmaking has become a mania when it should be a science S We Ve would li like e to se see ten obsolete la laws s repealed to every bill billt t c passed at the coming session sessIon of the Utah legislature and we believe that such a condition would go a long ways tow toward rd build building u up respect for all laws in ill this state |