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Show H .No Railroad Commission H Ut is (K-clari'd th:it "efficiency and economy" arc the watch- H words of tlic new I tah state administration that is just beinjr ush H crcd in. Of course no citizen hopes for nothing more, and trusts H for nothiiiL' less. On such a platform it is safe to say the Governor H will not favor a railroad commission. It is doubtful whether such H a commission would he efficient, and it is a certainty that it would B, not he economical. In fact it would be an expensive piece of ma- H chinery that would furnish some nice jobs for the pic hunters, for H which the people would pay. Now that the federal government is H considering federal regulation of railroads, it would appear that H a state like Utah that has so little to gain, and so much to lose H through tampering with railroad legislation, had better be a little BBBB H With eighty-five per cent of the railroad business of the coun- H try now inter-state, and most of the remaining 15 per cent done H with some equipment and operating service, it is safe to sa; that h the matter of federal regulation is close at hand. And if the rail- H roads arc to be regulated, which they are, is it not reasonable to B presume that the best and most efficient regulation would be one B supreme authority, rather than forty-nine conflicting ones. The B legislature i?an best serve the people by devoting its time to prohi- B bitiou, lower taxes, and a just equlization of taxes. |