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Show Primary's important too! How many times have you said, "It's just the primary election, I'll vote in the general"? Perhaps you haven't said it, hut many people have, and it places the wrong emphasis on the importance of the September election. It is important! Utahns have a big choice of candidates to sort out on the various tickets following the State Conventions. The very fact there was a floor hassle over the great number of prospective candidates should give some indication of the importance of the various races. We people in agriculture have more to gain or lose from our selection i than do most city people. It's far past time the people responsible for "feeding the multitudes" are shown a little more respect by the elected politicians of our country. The fact is the east is loaded with Congressmen who don't know one thing about our industry, and vote against us every ' time they have a chance. With this added burden isn't it more important than ever that we elect individuals to both State and National office who have a knowledge of the importance of agriculture and can help to overcome over-come the wacky voting of the big city politicians who want to give away everything we raise? We believe it is! How about the public lands mess? When are we going to elect men to Congress who will stand up to the control the bureaucrats have vested themselves them-selves with, and tell them this is it, we are going to control these lands ! and their use, and you will carry out the interest of the elected rather than ; the appointed. Think about it, Congress and the President haven't had control of this country for many years. They make laws, turn the rest over ' to the bureaucrats, and never bother to check up and find out whether I the intent of Congress is being carried out, or whether the various bureaus are operating on their own and in many cases running wild with unbridled I power. I Isn't it about time the elected put the control of the forests and other j public lands back in the hands of the people we can vote for, rather than people who consider the "manual" as the boss, and people who in many I cases are unreachable? When most of the chips are on the table, the men, or women in some ! cases, who are responsible for this happening were in a primary election at one time or another, and not enough people cared to vote to weed them out, ' and the people who benefited from their policies put them in office. ! We are asked many times a week, "What can we do about this public I lands business? They're out to get us off the land and we seem to just keep losing the battle." The only answer we had then, and the only one now, is to get to the Congress of the United States with enough clout to make them understand we have had it with the bureaucratic set-up of control and ask them to discover the haphazard way we are being treated, first hand! It would absolutely shock some of them. Choose your candidates carefully. The "environmentalists" will, the labor unions will, as will those who think the sun rises and sets in the EPA, OSHA and the Consumer Protection Agency. They all know where everyone of the candidates stands on the issues, and then they support him, or her, with money, time and a lot of talk. We think it's fine for the executive committee of the UCA to interview candidates, but it doesn't do you any good unless you are there and can 1 - hear them first hand: So V . . when the' candidates are in your vicinity, get," in the bus and get over to hear them, and as a last gasp before the primary, for gosh sake, don't just sit there . . . ask a lot of questions, and jot down the answers. You may want to write to him later and remind him of what he said. Think It Over. |