Show f HERALD LD KILLED GALVESTON T N RILLS P Wh When n you ou are hunting blunting for reasons reasons for the tho slaughter lift of f tho the Galveston bills s mark down this fact Tho Herald killed the bills That paper after arla arraying ln itself Helf in antagonism t to every member of the tho house and antI nearly every member of r tho sen senate te suddenly Issued to both orders for the enactment of or the Gal Galveston Galston ston bills From the tho Y very Jy beginning begInning be beginning be- be ginning the Herald has been arrogant and dictatorial li In Its treatment of or tho the legislature has been heen proceeding 61 on on the theor theory that the legislature was a primary school am and that paper tho trusted who had a n right to come conic in and scold It didn't advocate tho the Galveston bills bill It flung x them at tho the legislature and anti comman commanded ell passage t It didn't I nt explain them It demanded that they be swallowed If Ir any one ono asked an explanation or tried to argue tho Herald branded him as a 3 ward heeler or a 3 slave of tl the tho o federal bunch An Any man who was for the bills biBs was applauded e In proportion to the noise he ma made madeo e. e No Xo matter if he te dl didn't nt have havo an nn Interest In the town no matter If Jf he was In line lino for office omco under the bills when t adopted no matter an anything just anything Just so he ho would add himself to the clamor He was a 3 patriot All the rest were knaves And It Jl beguiled Into Its cause some good goodmen men usually found in better belter corn company pan There was an intolerance rance in tho the attitude of the Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid which precluded the possibility o of an any fair ration of or tho the bills No Xo man who believed belleve live commis- commis t stoners would be bettor better than three was allowed a hear hear- I ing Ho was instantly smashed with tho the general generate club rY Ho was a traitor to the city Tho The differing conditions between Salt SaIl Lake and Galveston m made de no difference to tor r the Herald It proposed to put the Texas breeches on i pr tho the Utah child and make it Jl wear them Day Da b by day ar the tho Impression has grown that tho the Herald Her IIer- Herald ald had its whole scheme arranged It had tho the commissioners commissioners com com- missioners already ad selected Its auditor an and Its attorney attorney attorney ney were named and promised There was far too much noise for members to consider anything And in that confusion tho the legislators never had an opportunity to turn tu-rn the tables an and find what the Herald Heral wanted i Very Yer plainly the house didn't believe the bills should pass lass On two different occasions the Galveston bills in their arbitrarily prepared form were vote voted on and ad- ad versel It was clear the they could not command a ma ma- The They had hall been lal laid on tho the table b by a vote ote that I sho should ld have been convincing and convincing and would have havo been to an any but the Herald HamId and its bevy of or men who propos proposed to bo beneficiaries under the act An And when It was demanded demanded demanded de de- by a noisy lobby that the tho bills biUs be taken from the table and passe passed tho the house dl did tho the ver very thing that should have hao been been done and refused to have anything more more to do with them Taking up the Ue bills would have meant two days days' da s de de- bate That is what the lobby wanted wanted until until by a flood Hood of ot threatening the they could coul drive the members to an af affirmative at- at x vote against the judgment of ot the tho majority The Th house didn't have the two days to give to a needless debate And the bills were not taken from the tho table One lesson has been learned learne and it is that 1 a lobb lobby In Utah can not stampede a legislature That Is what Y tho the public p has learned Tho The public and the Herald have I together learned another thing The Tho Herald can kill abill a abill bill b by its manner of or al advocating it |