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Show 1 i V.Vll SESSiOX LA us j . I (Ky L. A. jlohenbe.'k.l I The new session laws are ju:.: oul. J It is a small book. Thanks io th" ; fact that the House was quarreling j seme. .Good thing to be uuarrcboni" when it "rivets the attention of a body of legi? liters to their own! 'likes, dislikes and hatreds. When j the people get oil" easy Jike that ih'eV ; have occasion to . be thankful. ;ind then they cm enjoy iho cuvm iih r. the matter of - legislation. () f , course tfu? li'g comedy wr. unanimous repeal of the six-.d.ite Colorado river )acl for fear tli.il. Utah would Jos'; its water right.-, and lately Uel))h K. CarpenlCi- of. Colorado demonstrated that by t!i' Colorado river eomp.-u l;. tue upper j states' are entitled io all oi liwj water of the Colorado . river if iiry can use it. as a first righl, and t!r:n they could deliver Uie require:! quan-l tity to the lower basin. U is laugh-J able how the power trust worked 1 them. . t. I Then there is the horse rat in;, J bill permitting belting jnt roduei'd by .Mr. Kedd and passed in the l!ilT legislature. .Mr. Uedd evidently expected ex-pected to have horse racing and betting as a sort of a Sundayschoil affair, and had all laws repealed that conflicted with his belling arrangements. arrange-ments. Well, these horse racers with their betting didn't work just, according ac-cording to the Sundayschool rules and so Mr. Redd in the last session asked the legislature" to repeal his horse racing and ibetting law, and it was repealed, hut the repeal did not re-Instate the laws against gambl- ing that was the law theretofore and ' which was repealed by the horse fac- g law. So, there is an open question, ques-tion, which will probably permit betting on horse races in spite of the gambling laws. Ed Howe of Kansas says that the smartest people in the world come from country towns, and that must be so, for Mr. -Redd has handled the horse racing mitters in a way that would make n, hor. e laimh, and got way with it, and the city members' of Salt Lake City, either didn't see the pit they were falling into, or else did see it, and' ike Jehovah, winked at the ignorance ignor-ance displayed in the repeal or p.rhaps there was some premeditation. premedita-tion. Uut, it makes little differenc:-. Horse racing used to be a common ihinir, with no law to regulate it. Folks went to tlo'm and had. a tood time and nobody hurl. We'll live through it. The humor of it m-'.y do us gootl. This idea of pvoleei-ing pvoleei-ing everybody by legislation is folly anyway. You can't make u wis" man oul of a fool by legislation, nor make an unmoral man moral. Th .if kind of a man must get hi; knowledge knowl-edge by experience, and experience and thought . is wiiai makes all of our great men. So we will smile at the hose-racing maneuver and let her go at lhat. |