The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-02-13


new conditions. Is there any such clau
in this proposed bill?
Again. in this state, the rule is, tina
before radical legislation which affect
the property rights Of men shall be
come operative, IL shall first be submit
ted to vote of the people To pro
vide needed funds for education of tn
children of the state-the most urgen
duty of the sttte-no bonds can be is
sued without the a. proval by vote. no
of the whole people, but OF the propert.
owners against whose property, bonds
If sold, will be a lien. Does this bill
have any such provision?
This confiscation bill in effect propos-
es to reduce the value of every business
house. every city lot. every acre of LAND
In Utah. without consulting the proper
| ty owners Was the absence of such
provision caused by a fear that thu
honest men and women of the state
would repudlate the intended robbery?
When blight comes upon a valuable
food product, when a great fire sweeps
through a city, when a freshet breaks
a dam and destroys ripening harvest,
men are grieved and rush to the help OF
the sufferers; but when proposition
is made to cause more property loss
than has been suffered by all the ca
fanatics that have fallen upon Utah
since the pioneers came here in 1S47;
the pharises, who every day thank God
tI,nt tIAfr fall
men, claim that the measure Is In the
interest of morality and good govern
ment and righteousness, and therefore
iustifiable, though it would ruin or Grip
pie thousands of the most valuable cit
liens of the state and though the meas
ure would, If 4 operation, arrest, ar
raign, try, convict and fine or send to
the rockpile the Savior of the world
We're He at His second coming to at
tend a marriage feast and perform again
the first miracle that revealed to man
His divinity, when on earth before.
Moreover, who knows but what, if it
We're in this city, Chief Grant might I'M
dertake to arrest the Virgin Mother as
an accomplice.
If this proposed legislation could crys-
talize into law, what then?
symptom would be doctored, not
the disease; cure for nothing simply
an irrtant
The passions and appetites of men
cannot be subdued by statute.
Legisb ton of this kind has never
been effective save against races just
freed from hereditary servitude like the
former serfs of Russia or the former
slaves of the United States But the
attempt does not stop with the effort
. enforce he law
1t inctes suspicion, dstrust and heart
burnings among neighbors. 1t makes mon
dope flends.
1t opens a school where deception,
double-dealing and perjury are taught.
1t breaks down sef-respect and re-
spect for all laws
1t swell inordnate.y the ranks of the
unemployed, for business men are not
seeking to inaugurate new enterprises,
but rather are busy closing up their UNI
settled affairs.
1t curtails the states revenues; it
crippes schools, churches, hospitals and
all charities.
Young men no longer care to go back
to the land; rather they prefer to raise
blind pigs in the towns.
1t puts in action the passions of men
which finally benumbs their sense of
right and gives blow to their patriot
ism
II stops immigration, tourists avoid a
state so handicapped, new enterprises ar
not inaugurated, for when one form of
is ruthessly confiscated by
state, no other property is safe.
AN injustice is just as much an In
justice when clothed IN the borrowed
robes of sanctity and proposed by law
maker. as when it comes under the
squalid vestments of a hungry mendi-
cant or thief.
And there is no authority for this pro-
posed legislation in the codes that rule
civilized nations, or in the law of God
Is revealed to men.
Again 1t may be said that the
,harge that prohibition does not prohibit
s simply an assertion unbacked by proof
Well here is a carefully compiled state
nent Of how similar legislation resulted
n other states. Maine adopted state
vide prohibition In 1851; 1t was on her
statute books for sixty years but 1t was
never enforced because it could not be.
VermoEe followed the lead of Maine
'or fifty years and then changed to To-
al option and regulation Of the liquor
rattle.
New Hampshire passed the same law,
ried 1t for thirty-four years and then by
IN overwhelming majority adopted IL
'ense and regulation of the traffic.
Massachusetts, tried her best for fif-
zen years to enforce state wide prohi-
oition and then repudiated the the pro-
libition policy, and when an attempt was
made In 1889 to engraft a prohibition
upon the constitution, the
amendment was defeated by majority
Of 1852. In that campaign the curious
TACT was developed that the saloon men
shurch men and temperance societies OPP
posed 1t.
Rhode Island adopted prohibition In
1853. The results were so injurious that