Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-04-09

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tons that might stand in the way.
proceed therefore to indict you Of
stealing nv hand and the hands Of
my fellow citizens TO protect and fos-
ter an evil worse in its ravapes upon
the race than the great white plague
and all the rest Of the plaques com
bined.
Against the moral conscience Of the
1orrrrritv that eio"tod Won. Won havo
Necome the protector n not the com
mon panderer. Of the whisky rinc
We're you merely William Srrv. and
not tho Governor of the state. could
not wish YOU more fearful retrihu-
ton than tn continue in that role. tut
while you are in Office, you make me
and my fellow citizens stand with
YOU; for we, too, are Governor, to the
extent Of your delepated wills. You
have not hesitated TO betrav our trust.
and so shall not hesitate to search
'he LANGUAGE for terms aderrate 10
~eoudiate you and your unlawful as
sumption and misuse of the peoples
power.
Your Past Record.
Six years ago an exceptionally fine
prohibition bill was drafted by Joseph
'. Cannon and the committee Of
which he was chairman. The moral
consciousness Of the state was ready
n stand behind that measure. In
Iced. 81 per cent Of the voters of the
state petitioned the legislature for
statewide prohibition. But the whis-
ky forces defeated it-throueh YOU:
for at their behest you vetoed the
bill, and this, too, in spite of a ire
mendous uprising of your own party
demanding it's passage Two years
later you gave us instead the present
local option law, and have not hest
tated on many occasions since, to
feliciate yourself for civic virtue and
penetrating craftsmanship. But did
YOU really work for the people, or for
me saloons! Let us see.
Previous to the present enactment
we had what was equivalent to a
county-option law; in other words.
such general police powers as enabled
counties to go dry, and to enforce pro-
hibition upon all units within the
county limits. The present local OPP
ton law took away this supreme right
Of the county over it's respective
units, and was therefore a step back
ward. An obvious reform If reform
had been your motive--would have
been to add the present township unit,
without destroying the previous coun-
ty supremacy.
Were such law in operation today
we should come pretty near, if not
lutte in making the entire state dry.
Ito be continued.)
FARMERS SHOULD COOPERATE
THE necessity for the cooperation
If farmers in the compiling of sta
tistics Of crop production is matter
that was being strongly urged by Mr..
A. l.. Toone, chief clerk and deputy
commissioner of the state bureau of
immigration, labor and statistics, dur
ing his recent visit TO Cedar City. Mr.
roone stated that a great deal of diff
ficulty was being experienced in Sc
curing the return of the statistical re-
port blanks furnished to farmers by
the county assessors. There seems to
be a widespread misapprehension as
to the purpose and intent of these
reports, the average farmer refusing
to be disabused of the idea that the
information thus furnished has some
relationship to taxation. This notion
is entirely wrong, and If each citizen
could see the splendid advertisement
| for the state of Utah sent broadcast
in the form of the annual report of
this bureau, they would not only see
the real object of requiring this in
formation, but would understand why
il was to the advantage of every res
dert Of the state to cooperate with
this commission in the collecting to-
gether Of this valuable data on the
products of the state.
In addition to this, the filling of
these blanks are made mandatory by
the law, and persons failing or re-
fusing to comply with the requirement
IRE likely to get into rather serious
trouble.
Farmers, do not fail to fill out as
accurately as possible from the infor-
nation at your command, the statisti-
cal blank left with your property
statement and return same to the
County Assessor, who is authorized
and instructed to gather this data.