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Show CIIIZEHS FOUND LIBERTY LEAGUE EMPHATIC DEMAND IS MADE FOR REPEAL OF UTAH ANTI. SMOKING STATUTE " Attacks Upon Blue Legislation and Denunciation of Oppression Feature Remarks of The Speakers Salt Lake City. Emphatic condem. nation of the Southwick so-called an-ci-cigaret law was voiced Saturday afternoon af-ternoon by a mass meeting at the Orpheum theater. The curtailment of personal liberty which had resulted because of It, and the ill effects which have followed in the state, were bitterly bit-terly assailed by speakers who were heartily applauded by an audience that crowded into every nook and cranny of the theater. At the close of the meeting resolutions were adopted providing pro-viding for appointment of a committee of 100 to effect the organization of a I'arty of Freedom, the purpose of which shall he to combat the effects ot the anti-cigaret law, obtain its repeal, re-peal, and prevent further "freak" legislation leg-islation in the state. Speakers who addressed the meeting meet-ing said that the liberties and rights of the people have become smothered by too many laws. W. W. Kay, the first speaker, said that the people are becoming divided into two classes those who work for the government and those who do not. The state is so hampered by restrictive laws, he said, that citizens are coming to suspect su-spect that their next-door neighbors are detectives. Such laws as the anti-cigaret statute, Vere L. McCarthy said, not only curtail personal liberty, but also create disregard and disrepect for all law, and make hyproerites of public officials. Utah, he said, because of its "freak" legislation, is being ridiculed ridi-culed from ocean to ocean and from Canada to the gulf. For the good of the state and the rights of its people, he appealed for the eopperation of Mormon, Jew and Gentile in retrieving retriev-ing the state from the undesirable position into which it had been forced by too ardent reformers. Formal invitations to attend the meeting had been extended to both houses of the legislature. However, presence of the legislators was not noted. An invitation to attend the meeting was read in the house by the clerk with other communicaUonsvMcCas';ell of Piute county immediately moved that the house adjourn until 2 o'clock .Monday in order that the members might attend the meeting. The motion mo-tion was seconded, but was lost by a large majority when put to a vote. Speaker Seegmiller ordered that the invitation be filed, and the house proceeded pro-ceeded with its regular order of business. |