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Show WE WANT A RAILROAD COMISSION. Tho Standard calls on the legislature of Utah, which will be in lession next month, to provide for a railroad, or public utilities, commission, com-mission, the first body to be named by the governor and, therefore, the commission to be elected by the people. This state is more in need of a readjustment of its railroad rates than any state in the west. For years these roads have dominated in our politics, dictated in state government, discriminated in business busi-ness affairs and evaded taxation. The powerful corporations have played one community against the other, injected new issues into our politics and kept us in confusion, in order that they might escape their plain duty to the state and its people. With the awakening of the public conscience the time has arrived for a decided reform in railroad management and policies, and the only method whereby to bring about that reformation is to create a public utilities commission with plenary power to command the respect re-spect of the transportation companies and enforce an equitable adjustment adjust-ment of railroad rates and bring about a square deal for every independent inde-pendent interest in the state of Utah, We want a railroad commission a commission to be elected by the people. This commission could quickly solve the coal problem. Why does not the Herald-Republican advocate such a solution of the high price of fuel instead of appealing for a- legislative investigation which, if granted, could accomplish no results within the short period of legislative legisla-tive activity, as it would simply serve to create a great hullabaloo, terminating in a farcical protest devoid of any permanent good or even temporary advantage for the consumers of coal in this state? The demand for an investigation has the ear marks of an insincere effort at remedying the evil complained against. |