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Show " BIG DAILY" IN THE CHANNEL OF SMALL MINDS Tho provarlcatlohs of "tho big dally" will not got us In badly with Itoprosentatlvo Cardon, unless that gentleman feels as though It Is a'n offonse to dlsagroo with him, something some-thing that his standing and good senso will not pormit him to do. Representative Cardon is trying to ropresent the peoplo of tho ontlro county. Ho has boon In tho legislature legis-lature before, and on a number of occasions wo have found It opportune oppor-tune to commend his work, and wo havo no doubt that during the present pre-sent session such occasion will pro-sent pro-sent Itself again. Just beforo tho present session' convened Representative Cardon was quoted in a Salt Lako Dally, lssuo of Saturday, January Cth, ns follows: fol-lows: "Cacho county wants ntate-wldo ntate-wldo prohibition nnd wo want a stringent hill. Furthermore, wo wnnt to seo tho taxos equalized, as wo thin tho farmors aro bearing tho brunt of tho taxation. taxa-tion. Tho nutomobllo 'laws should bo amended nnd thero should bo a consolidation. of offices of-fices nnd boards." Commenting on this Interview ! this paper in Its lssuo of January 11th said: Wo aro a Ilttlo disappointed at tho publlshod statement of our own Representative Joseph j E. Cardon. His stand on prohibition pro-hibition and tho equalization or taxes aro good, but when ho says ho wants a "consolidation of boards" wo draw tho lino, and would advise Joseph to bo Just a. little bit carotid. . "I'onny wlso and pound foolish" will not work for efficiency. Ropresont-ntlvo Ropresont-ntlvo Cardon, however, Is on tho Job and Is tliereforo entitled to tho benefit of ovory doubt. Here's hoping that ho is right and wo aro wrong, but ns tho Scotchman says: "Ay hao mo doubts." In doing so wo had no Intention of giving offense, and in fact wo cannot seo now wherein thero Is tho slightest causo for offense, or Impugning Im-pugning tho motives of our representative. repre-sentative. He said "thoro should bo n consolidation of hoards," and It was on that point that wo dissented dis-sented and advised that ho bo o Ilttlo Ilt-tlo careful. Ho did not specify what boards, henco tho statemont could only bo tnken in its brond senso, and as thoro are somo hoards which wo think ought not to bo consolidated con-solidated wo naturally dlFsontd, a right which Representative Cardon very rightfully concedes to us. , Now for somo reason best known to Itsolf, nnd following tho channel In which small minds run, tho "big dally" In its lssuo of Jnnuary 12 credited us with "printing a statement state-ment nbout tho stand taken on consolidating con-solidating certains Interests of tho Agricultural Collego nnd other Institutions Insti-tutions undor ono board," charging us with tho Rtatomont that Mr. Cardon Car-don approved, whereas ho voted against It In commltteo, nnd did Just I exactly opposito to what wo credited him with doing. In editorial on tho samo day tho samo "big dally" says "Certainly ho favors consolidation In tho Interests of economy, to which his party Is pledged," and then goes on to say that ho does not favor fa-vor a Joint hoard of control for nil stato educational Institutions, etc. Well now tho big dally Is apparently on tho Insldo and knows all tho workings of tho mill that has been grinding for such a long time, whllo all wo had to go by was Representative Represent-ative Cardon's own published statement, state-ment, which by tho way was published pub-lished In quotation marks. Ilut It Is unnecessary to qulbblo Wo say frankly wo do not wnnt to put any of tho membors of tho lo-glslaturo lo-glslaturo In a falao light. In foot wo want to bo tholr frlonds, to uphold up-hold them In their work, reserving tho right to dissent If in our opinion opin-ion they take tho wrong stand. On this particular mattor which has (Continued on Pago Eight) KicwBjVjVjVjVjHBjVjVjVjVjI "BIG DAILY" H (Continued from pago ono) H been sleeping so quietly In the nor- H th end of the atato, but so wldo aroko nt Salt Lako City mid other H parts of tho commonwealth, Itepre- H sentatlve Cordon's ow n statements to H tho directors of tho conimorclal club H and tho business men nt tho club H rooms Saturday night la thu rioter- H mining ovldonco. In reply to a H question as to whether or not ho fa- H vorcd tho proposed bill which will H unlto the boards of control of tho H U. A. C. and tho other educational H boards of tho stato Mr. Cardon said H "Yes." "Will you voto for tho bill" H was asked, to which ho replied H "Yes". Mr. Cardon then asked us H to say that If It wore possible to maintain conditions ns they aro ho would prefer so doing, but from tho fact that such Is not possible, nnd H tho bill' is suro to pass, ho would H glvo his |