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Show READERS' OPINIONS (The opinions expressed in this column arethose of the writers, and are not neceasarilyconcurred in by the editor and management ofthis paper.) WHO CAUSED "APOSTACY" FROM DEMOCRACY? The story of what the plutocratic perversion of democracy democ-racy has done in Utah is one of t ie most pathetic chapters chap-ters in the history of a thrifty, frugal and industrious people. Here the p wer trust exacts three times as much for electricity as is just; the oil trust collects at least ten cents a gallon too much for gas; the meat trust gives the . farmer about 1-4 of what the consumer pays for his meat; the milling trust by merely grinding the wheat into flour makes it worth twice as much as the farmer gets for raising the wheat; the lumb;r trust co i pells builders of homes to pay three times as much forlumberas it costs at the mills, .the inilk trust pays the farmer as low as 8 cents a gallon for milk and charges the consumer as high as 48 cents a gallon. And yet there are still people in the slate who wonder why Utah is called the "Poor rich state;" and that many of our boys leave the state each year to obtain a livelihood. And still some men in our state who should be friends of the downtrodden and be the emancipators of the op pressed, spend their time denouncing that great humaui tarian, an I noble statesman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, of whom Charles S. Osborne, Republican ex-governor of Michigan said: "He has done more for the social, intellectual and moral interests of the masses than anyone who ever was President not excepting Washington or Lincoln." |