Show MORE 1 CAMPAIGN MUSIC 1 Our socialist rival the advocate t p cate of the new political disI dispensation dis dis- dis- dis i I is demanding that the government build the tOO mile Moffat road from Craig to Salt Lake The Record wishes that it were within the realm of to join in such request request re re- re- re i quest because we need the railroad railroad rail rail- road and the editor of this of-this this paper is personally not adverse to 1 government ownership of rail rail- roads In our position the News knows mighty well that the public ownership of public utilities utilities utilities ties really is in this tills country far faraway away The most optimistic socialist will not state that we nc hope to get this great democratic democratic democratic demo demo- cratic desideratum within a de de- de- de cade Even with the most favorable favorable favor favor- favorable able circumstances for social growth panics continued bad times etc socialism cannot hope to get a majority or a plurality of the fifteen million votes except by slow growth There are no indications indications in in- of any landslide VV We c chave have too many farmers and those directly connected therewith therewith therewith there there- with and too many financially independent citizens ns to permit of an any radical majority except b by evolutionary steps requiring perhaps a generation Any man with ordinary in intelligence intelligence intelligence in- in knows that it will be absolutely impossible especially at this time to receive even respectful respectful respectful re re- re- re attention in congress for any such measure as the building of a railroad such as the Moffitt line in the United States Before such a reformatory move can gain headway it will have to be made an issue in more than one campaign Last week in congress Mr Bryan representative representative representative introduced a bill asking asking ask ask- ing congress to build the tile road into Arizona from Marysvale 1 Utah to open up the Kaibab f r forest Altho there is much f good argument in favor of the thc governments government's building such road 1 we get got the r report port from Washington Wash Wash- 1 r ington that the bill will vill receive l 1 no support and will ivill likely die tile in committee With these facts to contemplate contemplate contemplate plate it is apparent that the local local lo lo- lo cal papers paper's big cry is campaign ign music pure and simple Th The Thc only result that can n come from it for or many years at least is the inducing of more voters to support the tIle editor of the News for the legislature legislature- a very desirable result from his viewpoint If the government the building of such a n road as advocated by the News it would revolutionize the entire system of government In these doubtful times while Europe is war-ridden war and much of her thickly populated territory stained blood-stained with armies of twenty million soldiers battling day and night it is Quite unlikely unlikely unlikely un un- un- un likely that the United States is going to undertake any socialistic reforms Every voter in the basin knows the above to be true We Ve dont suppose that the tile efforts of the News to attract more voters forthe forthe for forthe the socialist ticket headed as it itis itis itis is by the editor of the News the gentleman g it is claimed who drew the platform and nominated ed the ticket will be of mu much h success The Uintah Basin cannot cannot cannot can can- not afford to ask the government for a measure which is impossible sible advocated by the radical minority with no representation in n congress to support it The Tile Uintah Basin cannot gain by demanding de de- de- de mantling manding that which is self- self evidently not in iii the domain of of possibilities All will recognize recognize recognize nize this move as a move hatched and fed by the News editor and plainly for his own interests We Ve object to political activity of this kind in the tue basin because such action will alienate us more than we are now What That we need is a united front for things we CAN GET not sporadic sporadic sporadic radic action artion for the dream the reality of which is not within a period short enough for our urgent purposes The Union Pacific railroad will l be into the tile basin if the Moffit road is much longer de de- de- de ll l ayed But all railroads win will l fight ight any public ownership proposition proposition and they will fight hard except bankrupt roads If a road were built into this section f l y the government it would mean such mch ownership of ut all railroads The Alaskan road is not a parallel par par- case The Alaskan road was forced upon unon the government by the conditions in a non con noncontiguous territory and which is politically not a sister state |