The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-26
SENATE PRESIDENT
ON THE LEGISLATURE
LIEUTENANT GOVERNORtMOORE
GIVES HIS IDEAS OF WHAT
is ACCOMPLISHED.
(Times-Register, Idaho Falls)

(IlmeS-ReglSCer, 1Qan0 FallS)
The keynote of the situation so far
as the deliberations of the recent ses-
sion of the Idaho legislature is con-
cerned was sounded by Lieutenant
Governor Moore, who presided over
the deliberations of the state senate
when he said, Idaho is to be more
congratulated on what the legislature
did not do than what it did do" mean
ing by that statement that radical
and revolutionary legislation was
frowned upon and was not permitted
to be enacted into laws which would
have the effect of embarrassing the
state in the years to come or until
the legislation in question could be
amended or repealed.
On tidal wave of Republican ma
jorities which effected Idaho as it did
the nation, many men were, elected to
office, particularly in the state legis-
lature, who were untried but who
were fired by an ambition to "do
something" and by that something is
meant the desire to create by legisla-
tive enactments a general program
which would be panacea for all the
evils with which the body polite is
afflicted, little realizing in many in
stances that the remedy proposed
was far worse than the condition
which they sought to relieve.
In the worthy desire to bring about !
normal conditions and the adjustment |
necessary before business can again
function the process was sought to be
hastened by enacting laws, forgetting
the fact that Idaho, as most states
has upon it's statutes more laws now
than are enforced or could be.
In the more than 600 bills intro
duced in the legislature by both
branches was much poorly planned
and i'll advised legislation; a great
part of this was promited in the in
terest of individuals or localities
without regard to the general good of
the state as whole.
Selfish or regional interests were
placed before state good and in the ,
general scramble to protect local in
;erests state wide interest threatened
20 become overlooked.
An unfortunate condition existed !,
and still exists, that of propaganda
which sought to array men OF one
section of the state against men of S
,ther sections and one class of titi- '
senship against the other, and when Y
equalization and fairness to all be- Y
.ame the general program and the
policy carried out, much Unfair criti-
ism was given utterance to by those
Who have felt that their individual
were not given the prefer
,nce that they felt that it was en- c
tiled to, forgetting the fact that the y
session is for statewide and general t
rood and not for the promotion or T
protection of any particular section 5
# the state or men or set of men. 4
When the people of the state are +
permitted to think calmly without be- '
ng influenced by people who seek to .
protect their individual jobs by pro- s
and have had time to ceflect ;
arefully on the work done and ac- :
they will find that sane, =
ober, conservative, constructive pro- Y
ram without prejudice for or again ;,
t any section, class or individual has q .
een arranged and provided for. A
rogram of economy but not to the l l
oint where the progress or future '
f the state has been handicapped.
t will take some time for the gen Il
raj result to be acknowledged. u