Show n dad S column 1 I 1 1 l t I 1 5 OUR dear dad how many american citizens can take tak a nonpartisan estimating purview of tb general conditions ol of his country an see things as they are habit and prejudice have worn deep ruts in the minds of most citizens until judgment is largely based on labels on party names A man boasts that he has inherited his bis political party which Is often too true what he should say Is that he inherited a faith la in certain principles it the politician to hear men talk ot of their slavery to a party name they label him as a fixed asset one who will change or think thin but who will excuse and defend unfortunately political parties are not juries formed to take evidence and mature judgments rather their state craft Is to trim sall sail to a popular breeze or raise a wind of their own two or more parties are a ne necessary ces sary evil in a republican form of government said de Toque ville while we believe in a democratic form of government we must recognize that parties mean organization and that without method nothing Is done roughly about one third of the people are republican one third democratic and the remaining third are indifferent however the latter include the new and small parties but chiefly they are the unorganized yet it Is 13 from this unorganized minority that a balance of power Is obtained out of it are those who can be influenced by a reward or the promise of it hence position weal wealth t b influence office even vote purchase all bear heavily at election time while it Is open season tor for the shouter the spellbinder the demagogue fundamentally we believe in our system to in of government but we ve question those in authority while failing to do our pait in their selection we love our freedom fie edom but often tall fall to realize that without restraining banks there would be no ril or in this time of depression a very mild name for the trouble those who nho plod are asking what Is the matter those who lead are divided each has a way of his own talk to a stranger for a few moments and you alil learn that he Is an oyster fixed to a rock or he Is a floater a drifter there are only a few swimmers with freedom and purpose there are as many opinions as men lien the machine Is blamed bet et a lever lift is in the line of progress who would go back to the rutty road and the ox team with I 1 wo miles an hour who would have t these hose irl in exchange for the oiled graded road and the smooth swift rolling auto such roads are only possible it if made by modern machine methods hand labor Is not only prohibitive it Is impossible the inventive people of all ages have moved on and conquered the world both in war and in peace it Is man plus his tools that give power and power rules there will be some dislocation some will have their habits disturbed but if they aou would d live in this world they must adjust themselves from one general cause has spread a thousand ills and a separate cause Is sought for each it Is lo 10 here and lo 10 therel there the smoke Is 1 tor oll allowed owed while the deep seated fire burns the industrial world depends on trade and the system of world trade glows more complex it calls for that which Is necessary but Is not forthcoming a means of exchange of products a social eller that shall make for mutual interest this trade means not only suitable and sufficient money but some fair degree ol of reciprocity tor for it takes two to make a trade our bysted of money our medium of exchange has been restricted it has not gone forward with world horld progress and demand gold cold alone Is made the money and on it he has 6 been built a huge volume of promise to pay in goldi gold a credit system that has behind it faith that one gold dollar in a vault will serve as a base tor for one hundred or one thousand exchange obligations gat ions gold as a measure of all value supported by law benefits those who control it add to this woeful clency and control becomes monopoly the vast credit structure becomes a menace there Is a constant threat and tear fear that the promise to pay will be called tor for ff settlement president hoover says that the people have hoarded one billion six hundred milli million ort dollars in gold but the great banking systems are the greatest hoard heard ers of gold they hold practically all the monetary gold outside of the federal re serve system nominally the federal reserve serve e has several billions of gold in fact the system has but little tree free gold tor for I 1 reserves must be held under the law tor for i the paper issue that la Is out against it this A his money in turn la Is hoarded by the banks saying that this money Is in circulation cu Is a travesty in truth only a promise to pay in gold backed by gilt edged eded security can get a dollar of that money out of those banks the so EO called money in circulation Is held with a grip that would put a shylock to shame the nations ot of europe made a run on our gold and our government through the federal reserve system pumped hundreds of 0 millions ot of gold dollars into the great banks of the country to sustain that draft never in the history of the world has there been such a titanic beba struggle tor for gold therold th egold scare has been a panic among the banks and only by abandoning the gold standard basis could many of the nations of europe save their credit has it not been tut but money medium has haa failed in two ways first because there Is not enough of 0 it to serve the worlds purpose and second because ot of this lack it Is held hidden hoarded boarded and Is not able to perform its proper function ot of a circulation medium when most needed upon gold has been built such an enormous volume ot of credit that one tenth ol of the promises premises to pay exhaust it I 1 loin join with the financial world in believing that gold Is a good money medium provided it be supplemented with ith some other basic money to increase its volume to serve the of the world to me the tact fact that gold alone Is the only commodity supported by law Is the result ot of manipol manipulation aaion to tavor favor th those ose who had and still have criminal designs ot of monopoly it Is a fact that all other borrun commodities 0 ditico tall fall in value with the scarcity seato of gold or its failure to circulate the fact that the present administration and Us its chief executive clearly and decidedly support the gold monopolists and their interests and steadily refuses to recognize the failure ot of gold to serve its money function leads me to the conclusion that the party better be detested defeated i it Is true that very many specious arguments are advanced to show other causes tor for our industrial condition but the financial cause Is coming to be recognized as fundamental it Is so apparent that it can not be denied to repeat myself the united states Is the greatest machine making and machine using country in the world it created a surplus that could not find a market not tor for lack of a world need but lor for the worlds lack of a medium of sch chanse Mige we demanded gold payments that could not be made our pio production was reduced workers were thrown out of employ employment ment and soon our own people could not buy any of our surplus but must be supported many evils have grown out of this great basic trade defect and it Is easy to be led away from the true cause of all panics which have always been money when the sacrifice and loss are finally absorbed the scare over then what money we have comes out we build our credit faith up again and go on to the next period of forced liquidation and trouble but we make no cure of the real malady that afflicts our nation and thie the world excuses and promises are being made billions of credit help have been given I 1 tha banks and larger concerns some has sifts alft d down to the people buz but it Is only a makeshift make shift remedy that increases the public debt and taxes prohibition threatens to becloud the issues the question has no place properly in either platform of the dominant parties no president can change ane constitution ution no congress can amend the c constitution it can suggest and advise a change by a vote to the s states congress can change the law from halt half of one per cent alcohol to perhaps three per cent and the opponents of such a law can take it to the supreme court and have it nullified it Is absurd to say ray repeal the amendment but bar out all saloons no state c can an be compelled to dispense its own 11 liquor however the liquor interests are prepared with the idea of new places to sell liquor it will be incidental to eating places it will be accompanied with music and flowers and entertainments when and it if the amendments is repealed without ou t a substitute this will not be soon the liquor organization has spent millions and has a present fund ot of live five million dollars with which to carry on its fight tor for the ledge of selling liquor it Is this organized interest that has made the big noise in both conventions vent ions of the dominant parties it has no politics it Is out to sell liquor tor for profit there were bootleggers before the amendment under other names many that avoided the revenue tax there will be many after the repeal it if it should happen I the people will always have the ques tion to lace face as to how to best control the use of alcohol the states have tried it and failed it is 13 now proposed that they try it again under national direction there will be an inevitable conflict it if what Is proposed Is attempted three fourths ot of the states must vote it on themselves it is 13 not likely that they will coerce themselves at the request ot of any pr president aident either to agree to abolish the saloon or to protect a dry state or humor P ft wet state campaign talk on the subject Is wasted time it is 13 not a partisan question the great question Is will some nine million unemployed and many other millions in some degree ot of distress vote to take a chance on continuing their plight under the present administration or w will they vote for a change and nd support tiu orr history story yours truly CHARLES E STREET august 22 1932 salt bait lake city utah u LC ac WE PRESUME the ticket named last saturday at the th republican state convention was a high hie stroke or ol political chich should be applauded and voted for or by all good republicans whether vh ether at heart they approve ot of the nominees or not whether tills this will be dons or not remains to be seen the can gressional gresi lonal ticket smoot colton anti and loofbourrow the present ants were chosen by acclamation and the state ticket accordi according rg to opinion of 0 attending delegates left ro no sore spots whatever only intensifying the harmony that allegedly exists among the republican ranks throughout the state the stage Is now all set tor for the republican campaign political harangues are being prepared new political promises being manufactured with nothing further g to be done but to attend political meetings mee listen to so sailed political spellbind spell bind ers ere smilingly tolerate political hand clasps from rom political aspirants for aiace and the most important ot of all to go to the polls on election day and cast your ballot tor for the man or woman you honestly think will best serve you your community your state and your country irrespective ot of what ticket he or she may be on the republican ticket nominated last saturday follows U S senator reed sm ot congressmen don B colton and F C loofburrow W W governor A edsel christensen secretary of 0 state george P parker attorney general ivor ajax state treasurer frank M openshaw state a auditor u aitor dr C N jensen state superintendent ol of public instruction mrs C P overfield salt lake fred rich davis county robert D young richfield M 0 packard Spring springville ville presidential electors THERE WAS bitter opposition in the convention against the stand taken by the hoover smoot followers on the prohibition hibi tion question the opposition losing out overwhelmingly the following section of the state republican platform being enthusiastically endorsed we indorse the declaration in respect to the eighteenth amendment in the republican national platform and as amplified in the acceptance address of president hoover THE FOLLOWING silver plank was unanimously endorsed but with an anti silver administration Is it certain to have little it if any effect the united states Is a nation of producers of goods not a nation nat on of speculators on the future value of money wit without n a monetary system which will give stability to prices and employment there can be no contentment or economic security tor for the average roan man in the past few years gold has proved itself inadequate to give such stability and from experience peri ence we have learned that in prosperous times credit expands and inflates prices and in depressions when it is most needed contracts and greatly lowers prices and employment wo we believe economic eco comic stability can be obtained and maintained only through the additional use of silver as money and monetary reserves we therefore approve the tha proposal tor for an international conference to consider such use of silver and in the event such international conference falls to produce effective results we emphatically favor prompt independent action by the united states to increase the monetary use of silver and pledge the untiring and wholehearted efforts of our congressional candidates to that end BENJAMIN RUSH president insurance company of north america says we have demanded a lot of service from our government which we can no longer afford we have allowed and indeed encouraged the politician ican to reward political services to himself personally and to the party generally by a place on the public payroll and we have done this largely because we have been told and believed that somebody else and not ourselves la Is paying our tax bills for us dont let us kid ourselves any longer with this delusion the only people who dont pay taxes are dead ones S 5 S N SE SAYS AN exchange not so very long ago when electricity first began to find general usage gis wab spoken of as a going industry but it tooled fooled the forecasters it has been and la is a coming industry that Is becoming more and more indispensable to american homes and industries gas and electricity are not really competitors but partners in progress both are arc playing essential parts in the future of america fi A in br L S q THE POLITICAL managers of both parties will be able to get down to their quadrennial seasons work in earnest only when they have made up their minds that they can rely on a pair of housch household words in their respective ranks the dem democrats oc biats lie ile awake at night or sleep fitfully and dream dram cf cordial endorsements by al smith the republicans toss about and east cast anxious eyes toward the north se searching arching the beav heavens e ns for a sign that c calvin alvin is to be not merely faithful but will become equivalent ot of a flaming stoid a id w VICTORY IN november tor for the der awo 0 O crable presidential ticket by a vote nearly it not quits as overwhelming as that cast tor for woodrow wilson in 1912 was pred predicted 1 ted by mrs nellie tayloe ross poss P oss vie vice chairman or of the democratic national committee unless all signs tall fall maine will go democratic this year according to mrs lira robs who has just returned from that and Is going back soon to speak at bangor and lewiston fi A 19 fi DEMANDS FOR man payment of the remainder ot of the soldiery erb bonus this time perhaps with the support of th the american legion most powerful ot of veterans or organizations w will III be ronel renewed ked before Con congress grebs in december twenty one state departments of the legion it |