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Show uu LEGISLATION SHOULD NOT BE ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE. There is a paragraph in Governor William Spry s message to the legislature legis-lature which in part we approve, and yet do not wholly endorse. The Governor Gov-ernor said "Bear in mind that experimental laws arc always expensive and too often ineffective and confusing, that our sources of revenue are not such as to permit of trilling with fads and theories in legislation, that fundamentals are your flrbt and paramount concern and that to every measure that comes before you should be applied first the test of absolute necessity, and second the test of experience ex-perience of other states in similar circumstances cir-cumstances with like legislation; and j abo e all else let a due regard foi the welfarp of all the people in the state you represent govern your actions. ' The tests of absolute necessity and the experience ot other states are well to consider, but all our legislation legisla-tion is, in a measure, experimental. ! Only by putting well digested theories ! into operation can there he progress in government The republic of tht United States was born of an expert ment . trial by jury as we have it in this country was an experiment; .the Sherman anti-trust law was an expert ment; ihe l?w creating the interstate commerce commission was an experiment, experi-ment, and, at the time was called freakish, the law prohibiting rebating was an experiment, woman s suffrage was an experiment; the election of senators b popular vote was an experiment, ex-periment, all the measures advocated by tho Populists away back in the eighties were classed as fads and fancies and the country was warned to reject them as most dangerous ex I pertments, and still, within the last four years, both the great national j parties have claimed posspsion of I much of what tho Populists advocated. Let tis not frighten at any proposed legislation, even though it be branded ! an experiment, if the experiment j givea ample promise of well serving the highest alms of thp peoplp of ' Utah Let us not attempt to prevent a forward movement simply by in lib ting a bad name on a worthy ; measure. |