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Show I MINING AMENDMEENT IS , I DECLARED VICIOUS 1Y INTERMOMN CATHOLIC ; i I Characterizing the proposed mining amendment to the Utah constitution as 'vicious In principle' and warning the pooplo of the state against the setting up of "another autocracy," the Intcrmountain Catholic, one of the leading papers of the west, says editorially: edi-torially: While their sons arc fighting against an autocracy over thorc, lot Utah fathers fa-thers and mothers take caro that they do not with their votes create another autocracy regime and set it up at their own doors. The so-called "mining amendment" to the constitution of tho state, which will bo voted upon Tuesday, proposes a step in that direction, In that it would clothe with autocratic taxing ! power the state board of equalization. The amendment is pernicious in principle, in that it would delegate to a board of men appointed by the governor the power to fix the tax rate Tor the mines within tho state. It is in direct violation of a tenet of American Ameri-can government which was set forth ut tho nation's birth. - The founders of tho nation declared ( their independence ironi England largely because they held that "taxa-1 i tlon without representation is tyr-annv." tyr-annv." Yet 'now tho people of Utah I are "asked to vole into tho hands of a board which might or might not he I subservient to their wishes the arbi- i trary power of administering that , : function of government for retention; i of which their forefathers risked their a livos, their property and their all. li The argument advanced by propon-. : dents of the measure is that Us opera -1 j tion will cause. the mines to pay more taxes. There is no assurance that it would have that effect, but tho word-) ing of the amendment plainly brings out the fact that it would make an, unwarrnted change in tho constitu- tion. , , 1 If tho author of tho amendment I merely sought to make the mines pay j I moro "taxes, he operated much as does I the man who burns his house to rid j it of roaches. I Tho amendment appears on the hal- j lot as proposition No. 3. It is vicloun!1' in principle, it should be defeated. |