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Show stealthy, persistent and alert opposing oppos-ing lobby has prevented 'I cery time It has been attempted. How much longer are the people of Utah going to stand this ucgW-t of sworn duty by men they send to the legislature? Tf the people of Utah want reasonable reason-able freight rates and cheap coal, send no man to the legislature who will not first pledge himself to obey the mandate f the constitution, and stop sending men whose persistent neglect of sworn public duty for presents pres-ents of railroad passes tickets to cheap shows and dinners at second-class second-class restaurants has long been the Joke and by word of the streets and :i reproach to the dignity of the state. The supply and price of ceal In this city is controller! by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. That railroad absolutely refuses to do anything for our people in reducing reduc-ing its exorbitant rales It rests with the people to make that railroad reduce them. Will the people, do it? Coal must come down! STILL ANOTHER (MJULLETIN Commercial Club Traffic Bureau S?ys Constitution is Being V'olated. Continuing its campaign for lower coal rates, the Commercial club traffic bureau Issued another bulletin Friday, Fri-day, calling attention to the violation of the constitution of the state by every legislature in its refusal to com-plv com-plv with Article XII. Section 15, which reads as follows: The leclslature shall pass laws es-tabllshlnc es-tabllshlnc reasonable maximum rates of charges for the t ransporiat on of passengers and freight, for correcting correct-ing abuses und preventing discrimination discrimina-tion and extortion lu rates of frelcht and passenger tralffs by the different railroads, and ether common carriers in the state, and shall enforce such laws by adequate penalties. The hulletln savs further: lias the legislature obeyed this mandate? Session after session has occurred an i absolutely nothing has been done In establlshlnc reasonable rates. Whv ? Because a thoroughly orntxed. |
