Show TOO MUCH I LA LAW V By Dr L L. A. A Hollenbeck Hollenbech Fe Few laws mean meau many liberties and nd man many laws few liberties There Theres is s a mania for legislators and cranks 1 to o pass more laws They think that passing more laws makes the legisla- legisla tor or and the crank famous It ought to o make them Infamous There was wasa a time that the older citizens can remember when we had the greatest great great- greatest est st of liberty except on Sunday and andin andin in n that respect we were In the hands of f the fanatics But times have changed hanged There is a multiplicity oCla of oC la laws aws ws and boards and high salaries and nd graft and still they want more laws aws We Ve must have a county farm agent gent a county nurse a county clinic a bee inspector a stock inspector inspector in- in a health agent and every everywhere everywhere everywhere where you go there Is at your elbow an n official a collector or an inspector tor or a special agent or a deputy a detective elective or 01 an examiner a director or a solicitor an auditor or an attorney attorney at- at torney orney or a regulator or a special agent to look after y your ur welfare backed racked up by some outlandish statute statute statute stat stat- ute that was made by some legislator legisla- legisla tor or or or crank that thought the world would go all to pieces if these crank laws aws were not made and who believes be- be lIe leves that he is the special agent of Providence to carry out these regulations regu- regu lations and that the world would have lave suffered a terrible calamity If perchance he had never been born Sine of these freak laws are school laws aws some some are road lows municipal municipal municipal pal laws and moral laws like the cigarette law while some and a considerable number are merely graft laws that is Is the graft seems to o be the principal incentive to give somebody a salary The They are innocent Innocent Innocent Inno Inno- cent looking statutes about morals or schools or high highways ways and calculated calculated to arouse the admiration of oC the legislators and tuck tucked d away almost out of oC sight in the bill is a good fal fat salary salan of 2500 more or less with the he power to meddle with everybody's ever every every- body's jody's business and make malce them pay pa for or it too with a lot of extra taxes Most of the boards and commissions of the state are properly placed Inthe Inthe in inthe the last class the public utilities commission on with its expense for two years of oC about fifty thousand dollars with grave doubts as to its Hs meritorious services being of any real substantial benefits to the people peo peo- le And the state road commission that hat in 1919 spent on the Duchesne- Duchesne Uintah roads nearly twelve thousand dollars for engineering and about abou twelve hundred dollars for construction construction construe I tion and of oC what benefit was that tha engineering Educating a lot o of boys at the university at great expense ex- ex expense expense ex ex- pense to the people and when the they get out Instead of oC letting them rustle like anybody else rustles rustles- furnish them with a job at high higl salaries for Cor a short day service ser and ami ant made no roads but spent practically practical practical- ly y all aU of the Ithe money in that particular lar ar case for engineering and the mal making ing of oC the roads went to hades Well WeH it is about time to come down downto to the earth in public matters and while we are coming down let us come down to the In private matters and not live be beyond ond ou our means and not expect an employer to pa pay more than he can afford to toa pay a and frown on the man mall who has made a failure In his o oWn business and yet wants to dictate the wages o ohis of his employer and insist on the right to run the employers employer's business |