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Show The Governor's Special Message J ON TUESDAY last, Governor Spry sent a spe- I cial message to the Legislature advocating local option and strict regulation of tho liquor traffic. We wish he had done It a month earlier. The session has been hampered from the first and its usefulness half destroyed by tho springing of a demand for bogus prohibition by Apostle Heber J. Grant. His work made cloar i anew how misguided it is for the very high officers of-ficers of the dominant church to Interfere with legislation, for as society is constituted in Utah, the word of an apostlo is law to a host of the people, and it was" fondly hoped when the Constitution Consti-tution was framed that the high priests would respect re-spect it and keep their priestly hands out of politics. pol-itics. As it is the work of one apostle has haudl capped the best -efforts of the legislature for two months past The message of tho Governor was excollent. At this writing no estimate can be made on what the legislature will do, but tho very sensible thing would be to accede to the Governor's wishes. It would take away tho ap- prehension which is now perplexing business mon and permit matters to once more assume their normal condition. Moreover it would be exact justice to the people and that Is supposed to bo the aim of all legislation |