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Show Inter -Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by H. A. C. nnd C. 11. W. The country Is said to be undergoing a period of readjustment. Wo havo progressed as far as the first sellable. I'urma (Idaho) Itevluw. What a lmunin public credit there would he If congress bound Itself to repeal two laws for every new one It passed I Kemmerer (Wyo.) Camera. We wonder how many bills tho legislature leg-islature would have Introduced If they hadn't been cautioned not to be oven zealous. Spanish Fork (Utah) Tress, The antl-tobncco movement Is gaining gain-ing somo bulk nnd momentum ns II goes along, and ninny who came tc sneer may stay to weep. Jerome (Idaho) News. Solomon said of the making of books thero Is no end. The tnto legislature has revised It to n.td "of tho maklnj of new bills thero is no end." Goodlnj (Idaho) Leader. Official reports say that about half of the soil In bolshevik Rnwstn Is covered cov-ered with forests. And tt other half Is covered with whlskt.-s. Carson City (Nov.) News. A man will Teo ?00 in n poker game and ne'Yt say word about It, but If his wife loses $3 from her shopping bag he'll reprove her for her carelessness. careless-ness. Logan (Utah) Kepubllcan. It Is ono thing to enact a law nnd qulto another to enforce It. No ono can really believe that Idaho's nntl-cigarette nntl-cigarette bill means tho last of tho cigarette hi Idaho. Mackay (Idaho) Miner. The cigarette bill, as It now stnnds, Is a Joko in the minds of thoso seriously attempting to curb tho uso of tobnceo for while It prohibits the snlo of cigar-ottos cigar-ottos it docs not prohibit their uso or Importation. Filer (Idaho) Record. If the old man who Induces n girl to mnrry him for his money had always shown as poor Judgment In his Investments Invest-ments he wouldn't have accumulated enough wealth to have Induced the girl to have married him. Einmctt (Idaho) Examiner. If anyone hns a kick coming on tho law of supply and demand It's tho hen, for no sooner does she do her full part In creating n food supply than unseen powers decree ngnlnst her product by making It entirely too cheap. Fallon (New) Standard. i Thero is no iieHtlmi but whnt tho coal mines are profiteering to soma extent nnd tho railroads are gouging tho shippers f r nil the traffic will stnnil. As n rt.-nilt tho coal consumers nro paying n rnto which Is entirely nut of reason. Eur tkn (Utah) Reporter. Our old friend Sim Sterrett was caughth In n slide lu the Phosphate mlno las; Monday, breaking one rib nnd otherwlso braising him up. This jnnkos another time Sim played lucky. Sim attributes Ids good fortune to being be-ing n Democrat. Soda Springs (Idaho) Chieftain. Isn't It n bit strnngo thnt tho prices of goods nro so much lower In tho big cities thnn they nro In tho small towns? It Is bo everywhere you go. In the smnll towns tho dealers nro quick to discern the ndvnnco In prices, but oh I my I how slow they nro to discern nny drop In prices I Mammoth (Utah) Record. Debs says ho would sink tho navy, disband tho army nnd then raise naked arms to tho sky, nnd no enemy would have tho henrt to nttnek. Mr. Debs Is Just ns much wrong ono way ns tho militarists nro tho other. Tho middle Course is tho proper way, and It is that wuy about everything. Urlghnm City (Utah) Journal. Now It develops that tho proposed Ycllowstono dam project, In so far ns It portnlns to tho Montnnn sldo of tho fence, will have to go ovor until tho next sosslon of congress. Lot us hope In tho menntlmo thnt somo of our ethical eth-ical friends of tho east will occumulnto something beside wnter on tho brain npd seo tho thing nrlght. Pocatollo (Idaho) Tribune. Absentmlndedness caused consider-nblo consider-nblo mcrrlmctit In tho nssombly recently. recent-ly. Tho f.rst Instnnco of "nobody homo" occurred whon, ns n bill was on Its third reading nnd flunl passape, Hownrd moved suspension of the rules nnd referring tho mensme to n di'!g noted committee, thinking thnt the bill lind Just boon introduced. inne-uiuccn inne-uiuccn (N'ev.) Sliver State. |