The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-25
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sample of the implied praise be-
slowed upon this member OF the legis-
Iature for defeating by subterfuge tho
will OF the people is shown in the fol
,owfnr excerpts from the columns OF
fbe contemporary from which we quote
these little eulogies- Thus:
zone of these amendments introduc-
nd ostensibly to make Salt Lake and
ogden unIts. in the local option cleo
tJona was a prime factor In the final
execution OF the bill. This amend
mept provided that the provisions Of
the act should be operative In cities
OF more than 10000 inhabitants only
when the legal voters of such cities
shall have voted In favor OF prohibi-
tion.' The joker in the amendment
was that 1t did not say a majority of
tho voters of such cities Under a
strict construction. the vote for probi-
bition must be unanimous. Then. too.
II said the provision of this act so
that the regulation measure as applied
10 cities OF more than 10000 inhabi-
tants we're not operative unless the
voters should declare unanimously In
favor of prohibition, and then. of
course. there would be no need OF reg
ulation features"
IL Mr.. Kuchler did the things with
which our contemporary credits him,
he Is an unfit representative of the
people. He should either speak out
now and repudiate the motives at
tributed TO his action. or he should nd
nit that by means of trickery and de-
ception he proposed amendments that
he knew would have exactly the oppo-
site effect Of the arguments by which
he supported them
IT, as reported. this member by en-
phatic assertions and plausible argu-
ments that were insiDcere and that he
knew To be false and misleading, de-
liberately deceived his colleagues and
tricked them into doing the very oppo-
site of what his arguments and pre-
tended sincerity led them to believe
they were doing. then he was no rep
resentatve Of the people, but only
dangerous tool of other interests than
those OF the state which he was sup
posed to represent.
Observe that we do not accuse the
senator of this treachery and misrep-
resentation on the floor Of the senate.
1t is the paper that impliedly praises
him for his action that does this; and
If the papers Interpretation of his
motives and actions is incorrect. now
is the time for him to repudiate the
praise bestowed upon what is at best
a mere mass Of falsehoods and at no
unreasonable Interpretation is really
a sort of solemn perjury.
Trlckery and deception are always
contemplate. But II displayed upon,
the floor of the higher house of the
legislative body Of sovereign state,
by one who has sworn to perform
faithfully his duty to the state and
the people. they seem monstrous In
their colossal iniquity, and constitute
a degree of high treason against the
very theory Of our government-tha
the people rule.
If it Is true that any senator, by
means Of personal disclaimers and 9th
er perjured arguments on the floor OF
the senate, induced his colleagues to
undo the very thing they thought they
were doing. and succeeded in getting
any measure passed that he knew
neither his fellow legislators nor him.
self nor MS constituents ellneT ueolle eu
or needed or would be able to make
operative. then he has been false, not
only to his own oath and to his own
personal honor, but also to the very
essence of representative government
And IL the report on this legislator
is true. and the people perceive that
the persons whom they elected to en-
act real laws. have actually spent
weeks IN solemniy enacting farciai
parodies that they knew all along
would be found imperative. null, void,
and unconstitutional, then the people
must do something to repudiate such
methods Of abortative lawmaking or
else themselves accept the odium OF
insincerity and perjury in high places
VIII not those false servants OF the
people. who now think they have so
shrewdly tricked and 1outed them, be
held as Webster says, to answer for
their enormous crime at the bar or
public Judgment