Show OUR RIGHT AND DUTY Next Monday morning the Uta legislature begins a six weeks week s grind of new legislation with the usual grist of appropriations Several propositions of great importance to the basin will come before be be- fore that body hody If we maintain an apparent indifference to our oui welfare we shall get little that we want and perhaps some things thing s we dont want It is proposed by the new state superintendent of f schools that Ft Duchesne be given to the state for a home for the weak minded This his would be decidedly improper and every man mau in the basin should fight it to the last However if we supinely submit to such a deal dea 1 we likely get it altho morally and every other way we should have a branch of the Agricultural College Cedar City has a branch branc h of that school altho in that part of the state they have not on one e tenth the need for it Logan is provided with the parent school and Sal Lake has the University and in the East one half of th the e state we have no state t te institutions of learning Next comes the state aid for roads At the last session of th the e legislature Carbon county got for the Midland trail a roa road d not half so much needed not one tenth as necessary to them as da a road H up Strawberry is to our inland empire It is essential that the Uintah Basin take tal a hand in the matter and use all possible i force towards the securing of such legislation that we shall get a squar deal It is upon the state to assist us in developing develop develop- ing an empire which will win soon add people Shall we remain n asleep or shall we get ino iilo the harness and do something |