The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-12-30
MORAL MEASURES
UP TO CONGRESS
Passage Of Eight Legislative
Acts Asked by international
Reform Bureau.
INTERESTING INQUIRY BEGUN
Commission Trying to Devise Law
for the Compensation Of Injured
Employees-Many House EN-.
ployees Soon 10 Lose Jobs.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

Washington.-Cong has been
asked to pass this winter eight legis'
lative acts. the advocates OF which
call them moral measures" The
international Reform bureau is at
work with militant uplift spirit
which refuses to be cast down. The
house and senate are not always
ready or willing to pass these moral
measures" but they are always very
anxious not to appear to be antago.
nisuc to the bills except on the ground
OF unconstltutlonality or for some 9th.
er reason which cannot be considered
as springing from a desire TO stand
against morality.
Former Senator Henry w. Blair 10
the president OF the Reform bureau
which has for It's secretary and NOV
Ing spirit Dr. Wilbur +. Crafts. The
bureau has Endorsed and commended
TO churches ana reform societies for
support these legislative measures:
TO remove the federal shield of In.
terstato commerce from the original
packages imported into dry terri.
tory" ITO prohibit Interstate trans.
mission Of race gambling odds and
bets" ITO prohibit Interstate trans
portation Of pictures and descriptions
OF prize fights" ITO prohibit Sunday
toll and traffic In In the District OF Co.
lumbia;" ITO prohibit saloons In liza.
WALL" ITO prohibit the United States
district attorneys from engaging In
private practice" TO forbid liquor
selling In shops and buildings used
by the United States government. ="
an To restrain the traflc in opium"
On so-callod moral measures con.
gress never divides politically and the
reason for this Is apparent There al.
ways IL "A division, however. on meas
ures which touch the liquor trafic In
any way. Into this question. for II Is
an Interstate commerce one largely.
enter the questions OF states rights
and OF per. onal liberty.
New England Enjoys Mosby.
Colonel John s, Mosby. who In the
civil war days was called guerilla
and who now is called "a noted con.
federate cavalry LEADER has been lee
turing in New England. section Of
the country which forty.seven years
ago was demanding that he be cap.
tured and treated like a pirate. Tho
years that have gone by have softened
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associates IL just now engaged IN an
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'ne inehluerH ueolare ID .ho must inter
esuhs "hieh ever TOOK thelr attention
Inc commissions endeaVor Is 10 hhd
some means oy when damage sulu
Drought Dy injured employees against
thelr employers may DO ADJUSTED WIN
out recourse TO the courts ana withou,
inc tremendous cost when even small
damage cases inlet upon the county
the state or II may DO the federal
government
In many countries In Europe there
are laws which provide that the en-
pioyer shall pay a hxed sum Tor In
lurles' ana the laws have been found
70 WORK well In the United States
mere Is n constitutional difficulty II
me way OF the passage OF laws like
NOSE OF Europe and one OF the labor'
OF the commission VIII be to hnd
way OF getting around the obstacle Of
the constitution without injuring the
integrity OF the Great Document Itself
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snow the problem which the commits
sion Is trying to solve II may be said
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