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Show THE CITIZEN 4 event If it is wrong to bet on horse races, it is tions, and right here we may ask, why should the fines not be We will the law! large to discourage breaking get better results. Heretofore, there have always been a favorite few that secure legislation for personal gain. One of the biggest jokers in our present proposed legislation is the allowing of seining in some of our trout streams. Seining in the Strawberry river at the junction of the Duchesne, and no one knows how far up the Strawberry when no one is around, has nearly depleted the trout in that stream. A committee of sportsmen should investigate where seining is allowed in streams and they would be surprised how few common fish are caught. The seiners are supposed to only take the common fish, but nevertheless the game fish soon disappear when the seine is allowed. We believe that seining should be entirely prohibited in this state until such time that our game fish return and they will return in abundance if the seine is eliminated. However if the seine is allowed the game fish should be so protected that no one would dare take one caught in a seine. seined out in the Jordan All the catfish at the pumps-wer- 1 1 1 e river three years ago. common fisli are to be seined in a stream, why not have the fish and game department do the seining and dispose of the fish at cost? This would be satisfactory to all the people. There never will be any trout fishing in any stream where a seine is allowed. On ther other hand every stream in this state can be made a fishermans paradise if the fish are planted properly, and, instead of cutting down the time of the fishing season, it would soon be possible to lengthen the season. If In the larger bodies of water in Idaho, the people are allowed to fish the year round and it is no trouble to catch fish in any stream of that state. We ought to have the best fishing in the west in Utah. We will have if we pay more attention to the streams and less attention to personal advertising and political juggling. Let us provide screens in big irrigation ditches and canals to protect our trout and prevent them from becoming fertilizers upon the farms. If we protect our trout and used some of our ideal streams for hatcheries instead of building hatcheries, we would be getting some fish in our streams. What excuse can anyone give for the poor fishing in the Logan, Weber and Provo rivers? You cannot dump hatchery fisli into these streams and get results, and the best proof of it is that there are few trout in these streams. The fishing in these three streams this year will be much poorer than it was last year. No one can dump domesticated fish in a large stream and get results. Tame trout make ideal food for the wild fish in the streams. elections ; if racing is to be killed because of bet? KFsoni no more than right to kill elections because of ;verdge pc tional betting. As we never did pretend to tell the other fellokj1 . c spend his money, we have no axe to grind in tlre Just because we do not bet any money on the rae fave 11 pretend that the other fellow should not make a ber EOp1110 minentair inclined. We believe in racing as an incentive to . horses, and we do not believe that we should 8 inbreeding of good horses because a few people spirit and are anxious to wager money upon race 5 r??' in strict regulation as regards betting in order $ will not be robbed. There may be some fixed ra JP1?11 w also merchants who .will sell you a poor suit ofcfe:3nl7 price of a good suit. As a rule you will find the state interested in good horses. The king of racing stables. There may be some crooked rat Iorr but under the present strict regulation, racing isf ducted upon orderly lines and is a real business,, . H ject of which is to breed fancy horses. The man who says racing is wrong must a? r , every sport is wrong. College baseball and fofan,jie 2 because it is a contest; then boxing is wrong; ev All is is tennis sporw?i wrong; golf wrong. wrong; if played in competition, because where there there is created a situation to make a wager llPon fhe sui it is wrong to allow animals to race, how much monT1;. , to allow intelligent students at our universit we dashes. in various the themselves among !ntive is th I the in was If horse racing entirely stopped was in less than ten years our government would be coi port all our army horses from abroad at big price(rnp or You never hear of any fanatical laws goven England, do you? Probably some of you consid better than the average Englishman, but we are ff With all our boasting of independence and eor we find that England has ideal laws for the PeoPboy-finaa contented people, and whats more the people ai laws because the laws do not take away the persoi au imm( liberties of the people. health in enter the . . . ( - n since wimi im,he is It is an epoch in a childs life to shake Rardiscovere Ruth, the idol of baseball fans, and the man mmigrati liibit any child from meeting Ruth on the stage 0f f the of re an autographed baseball from the hands prass classed not be would only ,are f pion home run hitter, est man in the world, but the most radical, fanatre p0li asinine piece of humanity ever born of woman, hide beh Because the champion called a few children of one c It is not a question whether Utah shall have horse racing, but it is a matter of great importance whether the people of at San Diego, a certain politician who wanted fly enter ai this state should keep faith with the racing men who were toriety, as well as to show the people that he was a coi brought here at a great expense, who were besought to invest forcing the law,(?) his name being Stanley Gue. face in s thousands of dollars, and who were encouraged by the Redd rac- labor commissioner, had Ruth arrested and the he in ordei to deposit $500 bail or go to jail and he will be dont ge ing law which permitted racing. There has been a great deal of talk for and against this for violation of the California state labor W hate us. jon. sport, the sport of kings, and we should not be too hasty in he gets back. Ye Gods, think of a state that permits sucbvould like our action. There may be some objectional features to racing, but there are also some admirably points in its favor, and we lation and then imagine construing the law in fi kind this look upon the Holther bill as a happy medium upon which all to arrest people who try to bring sunshine into 'e over anc factions can meet upon common ground and save the sport to our dear children! In the days of Nero wc the people. been surprised to see people convicted who brom Yes, we can kill the bill, but the racing enthusiasts will into a home, but in this great United States wc cam continue to wager their money on outside races just the same, in the dictionary of sufficient vehemence to expre should and then what have we accomplished? disgust at such barbarian proceedings as charged the state The people of California should rise up fat location Betting appears to be the only objectional feature. If the from bill is killed for that objection solely, then why not kill the bill express their disgust in this case, and now that providing for political elections. More money is wagered upon is in session at Sacramento, they either ought tojghmonej a every election than was ever wagered upon any horse racing the unnecessary labor commission office or ahm0 HORSE RACING tot |