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Show o One of the silliest, most childish things the legislature, particularly the senate, did at its recent session was the excuse it made for not passing certain just and proper measures that their passage would help Luke's collection col-lection agency. Has Luke attained such power that even the legislature is afraid of him? Wc cannot conceive of anything so ridiculous as legislators nefusing to pass laws for the benefit of the people peo-ple on the theory that if they did bo they would be helping Luke. Surely Sure-ly the dead beats should be discouraged, discour-aged, even though they do not like Luke, and to refuse to enact good laws on the theory that it would help Luke collect from dead beats, is a direct invitation to the dead beats to continue their work, and to continue to rob the merchants and others right and left and is an approval of their past course. Some of the bills killed in the senate would not have helped Luke; on the contrary they would have hurt his business and enabled merchants to collect their bills themselves them-selves with recourse to Luke. It has never occurred to us that the dead beats of this community, or any other community needed such encouragement. en-couragement. Wc do not know that this community is any worse than other communities. There are lots of bad debts in other oth-er states and other countries as well as in Utah, but this is the first time that we have ever heard of a legislature legisla-ture composed of representatives of the people furnished from twenty-seven twenty-seven counties of a state, refusing to take into consideration the interest of the entire state, simply on the false theory that if they did so it would help some one individual who was runnig a collection agency to collect bad debts from dead beats. - 'if ' Robert C. Haskins, Assistant General Gen-eral Sales Manager of the International Interna-tional Harvester Co. with headquarters headquart-ers at No. 7 Monroe St., Chicago, III. togfethcr with his wife have been visiting in this city for some days, the guests of the Consolidated Wagon Wag-on & Machine Co. They were taken for an automobile ride and later to iunch at the Alta Club. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Haskins, there were present Mrs. J. Fred O'dcll, Messrs. S. J. Seal, Melvin D. Wells and Geo. T. Odell. Mr. Haskins expressed himself as highly pleased with the apparent conditions in this city, and the vast improvement that had occurred oc-curred since he last visited Salt Lake some 12 years since. |