Show TIlE THE COlI COMING LEGISLATURE I By Dy L. L A. A Hollenbeck A legislator gets four dollars a aday ai i day clay and a country school teacher I gets from 4 to 10 and as to ability abili abili- ty fy they will average about the tho same and if Ir a a propagandist conies comes along with a plausible story that wf will I raise taxes a large part of them say yes es yes and andt then thou go o out and denounce higher taxes Four years ago when a proposition proposition tion was before the people to raise rais legislative salaries and it was voted down one r-l r plan man n that opposed it at atS S Salt lt Lake said that a legislator was waa paid by the honor of or being a legis legis- lator That is ig an au an r empt empty ml stomach could be sat satisfied flied ith honor An Irishman wl who o was being rode on on a arail arail rail said Be De Gorra and i ii it wasn wasn't t for the honor of I it it Id I'd rather go afoot It is amusing to see sec some of or the com coming n legislators wisely isel saying that dial I they are in favor of economy and r I then talk about a lot of or junk that I means a raid on the treasury at the I 1 coming session Some of th the would- would be and sentimentalists that I would make the state all sorts of trouble by spending the public money where it ou ought ht to be con con- served And AIll the tha state university is 15 isone isone one of the places where a considerable considerable consider consider- rable r- r able money is usually spent that ought to be not spent The president of the university y has a big banquet and invites the legislature ture and the state at the banquet that is furnish furnish- furnished ed at the expense o of the tax payers and of course course the governor and th the president of the senate and the of or the house and the chairmen chairmen chairmen chair chair- men of both bath appropriations committees committees committees com com- of the senate and the house are all invited to make a spee speech h. h ra be someone else can make a better and more pointed speech hut but nothing doin doing doing- the l fellows l that at make the speeches are the fellows that tt con control ol the purse strings It i is h highly proper for the governor to tobe tobe be be- invited to the fur for fornet or nc not net to do so would be an Insult to him hint and to Ito the people as well but the others are put on tI the Hie agram ItO to gain prestige e and c in the legislature for the appropriations appropriation It is really smal smart on the artof artaP art I lc e president of pC the university because he ho knows that all those fellows fellows- big and acid little are arc so flattered with their own importance that they ar areas are aref easily ly handled handled by the appropriation propaganda and the h honor is 13 worth more than the four tour dollars rG a no day Of or course the penitentiary penitential grab grah will conic come come till up this tine time too Four years ears ag ago they said aid that the t prop property rt at Su Sugar ar House rouse would bring enough to pa pay the e expense pen e o of moving it Some Sonic of us knew better and defeated defeat defeat- ed eq it it but now that la is dropped and th the state t te is expect is' expected d to put up about J I thousand dollars The hypocrisy f I is le left t out this time But there I ought to be bG b a constitutional ament- ament nent providing that th the penitentiary penitentiary could be he located in some other county than Salt Lake L-ae county count as the constitution now provides and you bet you would see Salt Lake cLake count county coming through with a plan to move glove the pen penitentiary at its own oun expense pens because they would be receiving receiving g the benefits whereas s the people genei generally general general- al ally ly would be as well served in some other county as Salt Lake count county This idea of forcing er e everything thing into Salt Lake by ba a legal process is the bunk blink The legislators on the outside out out- side eide ought to have enough grit and resources s to run the 5 show in regards I to that I kind Ind of a a. question I 0 o t t |