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Show Vale Legislature AT THIS writing it looks as though the legislature is realy about to adjourn. Utah has had legislatures and legislatures, legisla-tures, but this last one may be put down as the real daisy of the bunch. From the outside the majority ma-jority come o the city impressed, apparently, with only one well-defined idea, which was that, if possible, pos-sible, both eyes of Salt Lake must be blacked. On their coming they found Apostle Grant pointing out a way through which Hiis could be best carried out. T' 3y took to it kindly. The News helped them along by telling them all at once how sacred the will of the people is, and how It must be respected. Then the blanks were sent out and the petitions began to come in by the trainload. All at once the people not quite sure' of themselves them-selves were to be made angels by statute. The wave swept in, a real tidal wave, for weeks during dur-ing which the News never missed a day in telling the august crowd down at the joint building, that whatever else they might do, the will of the people must be respected. At the right time the Governor Gov-ernor aroused himself, the federal bunch made him wake up and then came half a dozen bills, which absolutely ignored the will of the people, the Constitution, all the present laws and all the rights acquired under them, and rushed through measure after measure which, had the Czar of Russia done the same thing, he would have to double the barricades and the guards around his palace. Suddenly the News lost its zeal to have the will of the people carried out, Apostle Grant gave up his desire for state-wide prohibition, the federal bunch had to explain its contract with the liquor men; the result re-sult is that the federal bunch is on top, but the whole structure of the state government is in chaos at its feet, and the legislature, concealing their oath of office under their endowment garments, gar-ments, are, by twos and threes, departing on fiat cars for their homes to explain to their constituents constitu-ents that if they have not damaged 'the American party and Salt Lake City, irreparably, it is not becauso they did not try to. There have been legislatures in Utah, but thTs one is the daisy. |