Show LAWS THAT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED there are a few laws written on the statute books that are unjust and discriminatory and they ought to be abell abolished shed one good step has been made in contesting the poll tax law a requirement as one prominent ex county official of this state put it that simply makes it possible for or the road commissioner to collect a big bunch of money which practically all goes to the road commissioner or other county agent for expense of collecting lec ting the road poll tax is a nuisance sance pure and simple and should be stricken from the statutes another equally unreasonable tax Is the fish aud and game license tax which our legislature in times past have seen fit to impose upon the citizens of this state the law reads that any bont boni fide male citizen or resident of the state over the age oi ot 14 years must procure a license before he be can fish and hunt in the same section after going on to define the requirements which a non resident or foreigner must subscribe to and also in describing the form of license the law says provided that all female persons resident of the state of utah may take game and fish under the provisions of the statute without a license the point successfully raised in the poll tax test case a few weeks ago in the district court at salt lake city was that it discriminated against the male population and the constitution of the state expressly provides that all citizens must enjoy equal privileges and rights under the con ution the same point might be raised in connection with the fisli fish and game license in that it requires the male to pay and exempts the female there is no good reason why any citizen should pay a license to catch and kill game which nature largely provided no man can control the propagation of ducks and other fo fowls fois Is or game birds A plant might be made in a new section and a krotec tion thrown about the birds until such time as they have increased in sufficient numbers to keep ahead of the destruction by the sports but even in that nature does it all and 1 man has no part in it trout usually are planted throughout the year and it requires funds to maintain the state fish hatcheries but in the labor of propagating the fish all that man can do is to collect the fish eggs that otherwise would be deposited in the springs and streams hatch them out in places unnatural to the fish and then put the fry back in the creek but after all fish are fish and are a part of the creation that have been ordained to flourish without the interference ter of man nature has provided it all and when man steps in and preempts the work of nature and prohibits his fellows from enjoying those natural privileges an injustice la Is committed against the race and means ought to be provided looking to its abolishment god has provided the streams and the fish that in them are fish evidently were created for the food of mati man to have to pay a tax for the privilege of plucking the fruits from the trees nature has provided Is altogether unjust the fish and game license ought to be abolished and there is very little question but that it would be declared unconstitutional just as the poll tax law was it anyone leoan cared to make a test case cac e of f it |