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Show s.., THE CITIZEN 4 However, whatever we do, let us not attack th6 railways or other big tax paying corporations, which make it possible for you and I to live like white men. DISCRIMINATING. California has started something which many believe shows that the real height has been reached in California and from now on she will begin slipping backwards. The recent legislature passed a law which will tax all securities from the outside. Californians must invest their money at home, but if they will select outside securities they must expect to pay a 7 per cent tax in addition to the regular local tax. In Florida the opposite is being done, and there they are exempting from taxation certain classes of property if people will lonly come in and invest their money. Here then we have two states which are playing the extremes and the states are situated at the extreme lower outside boundaries of the United States. Business men invest their monqy where they believe they have a fair chance of making more. It hardily seems probable that people will stand for long to be hemmed in by narrow legislation. But then this is the day of freak legislation and freak reforms, and the country is actually tottering under its abundance of freak legislation. The present California law is a direct slam to surrounding states and further it is a notification to them that no California money will be invested outside of its boundaries unless a special tax is paid for the privilege. California must be afraid that the millions that have been induced to go to that state must be kept there, but legislation will never do it. The law cannot reform people or make people do things against their will, because in the first place the will of the people is the law and things contrary to their will cannot be enforced. California will hear to her sorry from this unwise legislation. We may now ask why should Utah people go to California to spend their surplus cash to enjoy their holidays? UNAMERICAN. The senate rejection of Charles B. Warren, the Presidents nomwas unAmerican in thought and deed. It inee for attorney-generaviolated the American sense of fair play and decency. A man who has served the United States with distinction in Tokio and in Mexico, and who in his earlier years was one of the legal representatives of the United States in the great international fisheries dispute, was rejected out of hand without even an opportunity to present his case. There is no disguising the real motives behind the clamor. The senators were not so much voting against Warren as against the President. In no other way can the situation be explained. How else can one reconcile the fact that Senator Walsh who, horrified and appalled, voted against Warren because a quarter of a century ago he served as the legal representative of sugar concerns in Michigan is the same-Walswho only a few short months ago aided in the selection of John W. Davis, an attorney of the Morgan interests, as the Democratic standard-bearer, and who personally journeyed to West Virginia to advise Mr. Davis of the distinction. There is another and more unfortunate explanation of the opposition, namely, that they felt Mr. Warren was too able, too active, for this office. Senator Butler hinted at this when in his speech he said, Some people do not want a militant attorney general. They prefer a complacent individual in that office. Some people prefer an attorney general who knows no politics, or the significance of opposition. To be sure the office should not be administered as a political one, but without fear or favor. The attorney general should be just and fair. Some people do not want all the laws enforced. Some do not want the prohibition laws enforced. Some do not want other laws enforced. I predict that Charles Warren will enforce all laws: The President has not been defeated. It is the senate that has been defeated. Once again the attempts of the President to secure for the public service men of ability and understanding has been frustrated. Once again, the very men who vociferously protest against what they call the low lever of personality in high government officers l, toft. have, by their attacks, made the entrance of mea of than ever. The end is not yet. The country which voted f0rr ocrats as well as Republicans, is aroused, and among 4 telegrams received at the White House, protesting done, an exceedinglly large number were from Dei, the yeast which will make for a better senate in Decei CARELESS BUILDERS. Burning up buildings, with the occasional divert them down, continues to the disgrace of America. ; iy ments are hard to control. Yet give man a chance himself a master of almost any situation. fni The Breakers, Palm Beachs famous hostelry, consumed the assembled natural resources which wentj$j and left the nation several millions poorer. ? Lam Portions of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kent v been swept by a tornado. It not only laid waste to profoy a toll of human life which first reports seemed to indiLng been paralleled through the same agency in this comfy nc Carelessness in one form or another the humrof responsible for most fires. And at the beginning errand larger than the flame of a match or a tiny spark. f tt Tornadoes are visitations beyond the blame on pe mans, but in each case humans may be far seeing bis enough to forestall greatly, if not entirely, the dama5ir visitations otherwise leave upon the land. jldn The folly of building to burn and to blow down an flung in the face of well established facts that building ta that will neither burn up nor blow down. ill Ages of experience have shown that tornadoes doiigJ respect locality. Decade after decade, Americas flit More than half a billion a year is the present annual 1 3 i No money value can be stated for the actual econo: lives wiped out by the recent tornado. In both cases, toliti wealth of the country has been materially reduced, f How much longer will people disregard well estaN? to the economy of permanent, firesafe, windproof stref';; types? Surely hotels, apartment buildings, schools, if1 structures housing human beings deserve first corawP the standpoint of making them a protection rather tk1 1 ; ; Ilu life. Cement concrete is the solution. Firesafe and windproof buildings are easily built engineers and contractors the country over will agree and in most cases at a cost no greater than types whid flames and playthings for the wind. How many more lessons must we have before wr! know the answer? fe h by !?je Many improvements are being slated for ths among them being the paving of many blocks f cityi hope that in this work Utah products will be used excfr ference to any that must be imported. We have lot yd paving of part of Fourth East Street beginning n SfejJ running south. The people wanted cement pa emenlj bitulithic which cost about 50 cents more per squ. reyartyg The use of bitulithic eliminates all competit oninfjjfc interest which represent the blacktop materia- itisjjen or two contractors stationed in cities where they can contractors get all the work. Working upon iis writer called upon several of the well known cc ltraci them if they would bid upon bitulithic road v irk. i invariably and to a man was, We dont bid ecausf chance with the slated contractor who is picked f r thefyv 1 - 1 1 ; M work. It is no wonder that many cities in the Unite Staf n bitulithic and all warranted pavements. 1 |