Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-24
PRAISE THAT CONDEMNS.

PRAISE THAT CONDEMNS.
The praise OF local contemporary
I in behalf az certain trickery by means
of which it alleges that State Senator
/ Kuchler succeeded IN defeating liquor
! legislation. may not b. meritod by tho
recipient Of this fulsome adulation.
| But lf % truly represents the stand of
/ this member OF the Legislature. then hs
| is condemned. and by his friends. as
perhaps no other legislator 81 Utah has
ever been weighed in the balance and
/ found wanting. To was reported in the
/ columns of "a morning paper that the
| Governors veto OF the Badger bill ''was
made easy by the shrewd and careful
| loading of the measure by Senator
RudoIuh Kuchler Of Weber county.
Senator Kuchler was the chairman OF
| the committee ON manufactures and
/ commerce. and led the FIGHT against
prohibition. and also against radical
! liquor legislation The paper says fur
Their that Mr. Kuchler introduced sew
| er8l amendments To- the bill. which on
their face appeared innocent enough.
hut which would probably have rem
| dercd the measure imperative II it had
been enacted into law"
similar references TO the good work.
of Senator Kuchler have several times
| previously appeared ia the same pa
per. and always with vein Of implied
or expressed praise for the deceptive
tactics which. as that paper holds re-
suited IN making the bill really in
operative. even II IL had become a law
by receiving the signature Of the Cow
| enor.
A sample Of the implied praise be-
slowed upon this member Of the Legis-
lature for defeating by subterfuge the
will Of the people IS shown in the fol-
lowing excerpts from tho columns Of
the contemporary from which we quote
these little eulogies. Thusi
zone Of these amendments introduced
! ostensibly 20 make Salt Lake and Og-
den units in the local option elections
| was a. prime factor ia the hnal eXecu-
| ton Of the bin This amendment pro-
vlded that the provisions Of the act
| should be operative IN cities OF more
| than r. 900 inhabitants only when the
legal voters OF such cities shall have
voted On favor Of prohibition The Jok-
err en- the amendment was that Il did
not say a majority Of the voters or
I such cities Under strict Consruc-
ton. tho vote for prohibition must be
/ unanimous Then. too. a. said the pro-
! visions " this act so that the regula-
ton measures as applied 90 cities or
moro than ~ 600 Inhabitants we're not
| operative unless the VOTERS should do
ciare unanimously I'm favor Of prohibit
ton and then. of course there would
be no need of regulation features
! II Mr.. Kuchler ala the things with
which our contemporary credits him,
ne is AN unit representative of the peo-
ple Ito should either speak out now
I and repudiate the motives attributed
10 hIs action. on ne should admit that
by means OF trickery and deception he
proposed amendments that he knew
would have exactly the opposite r.
feet of the arguments b. which he
supported them.
H. as reported this member by om-
phatic assertions and plausible argu-
ments that were insincero and that be
knew 90 be- false and misleading. deub-
eratolv deceived his colleagues and
tr.clred them into doing the very oppo-
site OF what his arguments and pre-
tended sincerity Tea them to believe
they were doing. then Doe was no rvp-
resentauye of the people. but only a
dangerous tool OF other interests than
those OFF thc state which Doe was sup
posed to represent
Observe that 1870 do not accuse th,
Senator of This tre8chery and misrep-
rcseutttion un the floor of the senate
90 ls tha paper thar implicitly prais
es h.m for his action that
. docs thIa and Dr. thc paper.
Interpretation of his motives and ac
uars De- Incorrect now is the time fo'
, h.m to vuudato inc praise bestowed
upon what Dr. fan bert more mass o
mIsehoods and az mo- unreasonable iu
tcrpstauou is really "a SORT of solemn
perjury.
Trckery and deception are UNav
oouteuntibIe 1901 n displayed up
ou tho floor of ths higher house Of th
legislative body of IA sovereign state
by oun who hss sworn to perform eIth
fully his duty to M State ana tho pco
. pie they seem mo1Ftrous In choir oolos
. saI iniquIty and constitute a degree o
D hIrh treason against tho yeg theory 90
our government the people rule.
% If ~ H true that amy senator Dbl
- means of personal disclaimer ana 9th
70 or rerlurod arguments ON the floor o
FL tb. Senate induced his colleagues I'D
b undo the vory thiug they thought the.
a wore doing and succeeded in gotun.
DO any moasuro passed that DO know