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Show H C Q. D. H ryiHE good people of Utah are per- IH j mittod, every now and then, to Bf elect two senators and a repre- Pi! sentativo, send them to Washington B and let the government pay their salaries. Those three men are sup- BB poaed to represent the state and all B of its varied interests. They are sent B by the people; they are supposed to B represent all of the people; not the B leaders of one political party. H To possess the qualifications of a X senator or a congressman one would B i naturally suppose that a man sent by Bj the people to Washington mu3t bo K entirely familiar with the people's peculiar needs." If he bo a good senator sen-ator or a good congressman he will get In touoh with the people, find their necessities, learn their wants and then keep a weather eye open all the time to see that they get them. He will study the situation peculiar to his own constituency and keep uppermost in his mind the fact that he la the servant serv-ant of the people and not of one particular par-ticular class. For a good many years Utah has been represented in Washington by three men whose votes have been unfalteringly un-falteringly cast for special privilege; who have been busy aiding senators and congressmen from other state3 who have been faithful to the machine. When the business men of Salt Lake and Ogden would no longer tolerate the Iniquitous freight rate maintained by the railroads, what did they do? Did they call Senator Smoot or Senator Sena-tor Sutherland or Congressman Howell How-ell into their confidence and state their wants? Did they leave the mat-tor mat-tor to Utah's representatives at the capital? Not yet. in an indirect way they were paying pay-ing to keep Senators Smoot and Sutherland Suth-erland and Congressman Howell at Washington, but they dug down Into their jeans and extracted therefrom sufficient to pay for the sending of special representatives to Washington to get justice for Utah, If possible, in the matter of freight rates. The special spe-cial representatives accomplished what the regular representatives should have done without being asked. And Steve Love was one of the special representatives. In fact it is likely that his untiring work for freight rate relief In Utah has done more than anything else to save the state a couple of millions annually on freight tariffs. Senator Smoot was busying himself with the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Out here in Utah his political manager, who Is also one of the big sheep owners own-ers of the state, was industriously repairing re-pairing the political fences so as to make sure the return of Senator Smoot to the senate when hl3 present term expired. Senator Sutherland and Congressman Howell also were busy with tariff laws and other thngs. The Utah wool growers, who have formed an association, have at their head the field manager of Senator Smoot. He with others sanctioned the employment of a special representative represen-tative to go to Washington and procure pro-cure relief for the wool growers of the state and to make the proper showing show-ing for the wool industry before the commission taking tariff testimony. The ohoico of the Utah wool growers did not fall upon either of the three representatives at Washington, but upon up-on James H. Moyle, a Democrat, and one who was known to be able to procure beneficial results. He did. How would you like to hire a lawyer to do all your legal work and then when you became involved in an Important Im-portant bit of litigation you found that you would have to get another who could do more than just sit in court? Or how would you like to subscribe for a newspaper and then discover that you had to buy aiwther paper to get the news? How would you like to employ a salesman and put him oub,on the- road to sell your goods, only to learn that when a real sale was to be made you had to send another salesman to handle the job? How does it feel to elect men to congress to handle your business and then send a special representative with brains down every time something vital in its effect upon your business happens to arise? |