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Show fr T i .! THE CITIZEN 4 ) . 1 I in part, will be paid, in full, and the county tax rate has been loVe ote ha So much for efficiency and the keeping of promises, ire Having made good the past two years there is little reason i the voters should decide to oust officials who are pledged, individ Th ly, and as party workers, to public economy consistent with pu DE efficiency. The Democrats have nothing to go before the vo with ; no concrete issue on which to base a plea for election. 1 dare not refer to the late Democratic control of county affairs, f In are a lost tribe, wandering in a political wilderness created by t he own party. Mr One thing that conspires to make election of the Republi ;ed county ticket, and also the legislative ticket, assured, is the character of the man in charge of the. county committee. Jn ttes Cor Loofbourow, while a trained jurist, is also a master mind in dnes political affairs. His chairmanship lends dignity to the campaign Mr, certainty to the success of the ticket at the polls. He is makin t clean, honorable fight for his candidates. ard This fall the voters will be guided in expressing their choici Vermont pantry of U. S. shipping board ships unless they are handed a subsidy at no distant date. For its commercial and industrial supremacy and to render effective its naval defense the United States must maintain a merchant marine. If we fail to give the assistance needed to protect our merchant marine from elimination, we shall be in the position of having yielded to the threats of foreign nations that desire to keep our ships off the seas. The great argument used by detractors of our merchant marine, and tho opposed to a subsidy, is that foreign nations will retaliate by passing similar legislation. They .wont ; they are already subsidized to the limit and to go stronger in this direction would impov-- . erisli the foreign nations competing with us for ocean traffic. Great Britain is accorded the distinction of being boss of the seven seas, and the average American citizen may gain a little idea of how Great Britain subsidizes her own steamship lines, even though British companies operate on a much lower cost basis than American companies, from the following: The contract with the Cunard Steamship Company for mail service every Saturday from South Hampton to New York City, with supplemental service, provides for a payment of 63,380 pounds, or $317,795. The admiralty subvention which in .1913 was 150,000 pounds has been reduced to 90,000 pounds, partly in consequence of the loss of the Lusitania. Construction of the Lusitania and the Mauretania was the result of a special contract by which the British government assured to the Cunard Steamship Company, for twenty years, a mail subsidy of 68,000 pounds and an admiralty subvention of 150,000 pounds together with a government loan of 2,600,000 pounds at 24 Per cent. This loan was made, primarily, to insure construction of the two ships liners of the North German with higher speed than the trans-Atlant- pre-electi- IS B 1 1 , ?he candidates largely by their convictions that the great construct protective and sane legislative program of the national Republ yn Mr, party has brought the country out of the throes of despair, bad within sight of normalcy. They visualize a return to prosperit they see it coming everywhere- - in the renewed building activi pre in increased business of every description and in that situation has placed the railroads at a disadvantage because of a lack of the to carry the freight shipments now offered. They indicate all Mr. an in their silence regarding political matters. They are satisfied things as they are and do not intend to change horses in the middl the stream,' a very precarious undertaking in normal times, as possible forerunner of calamity now. , i Yh ic WATCH THE CITIZEN GROW. line. j i I i i i i on Similar contracts are made by Great Britain with its steamship lines to all parts of the globe. Germany matches Great. Britain in this subsidy business and the French government tries to go them both one better. This is merely an illustration of what the United States is up against in attempting to build up a merchant marine. It is the most forcible argument that can be used to show why American ship must be given encouragement if they are to meet foreign competition. It also shows that foreign nations can offer no valid reasons for opposing our ship subsidy measure now before the apat yea Because the people are entitled to know, because the reader: The Citizen have discovered that they usually find what they in its columns, they have renewed their own subscriptions and advised their friends to also subscribe. The clientele of The Citizen has come, at last, to a realizs of the obvious fact that Salt Lake needs a fearless, outspoken med a medium unafraid and not subsidized or tied up to any cliqui faction one that can express its thoughts freely on any subi national or local. We submit that The Citizen is such 'a medium and because this and the generous support it is receiving, it has now becom substantial and growing medium with a subscription list of upward five thousand. While normally a supporter of Republican principles, becau; d American workers, ta believes in a protective tariff to ers and factories, and because it realizes the danger to this natn1 fa unrestricted immigration, which is another menace to American ers and laborers and for other cogent reasons The Citizen will tinue to support these principles. However, this medium is free to reprimand any ami all pol or chicanery, or manipulation, no matter from what source, ing those things, industrial and sanely moral, which stand greater and a better Utah. The Citizen is for those pcs ple lieve in and practice sane and practical Americanism; who belie' the policies and traditions of the fathers of their country; what party, it may come. The Citizen is always foremost in eF b lieve in our constitution and the sanctity of safe and sane laws on that constitution, and their full enforcement. The itizen t posed to fanatics and fantaical laws and will continue t' figbt In the development of Utah as a mineral state 'I be more keenly interested than any other weekly publication0 state, with the possible exception of those centered in min,n tricts. For this reason and because The Citizen realiz-- that is the most heavily mineralized section of the west, with tecin,n! lions of tons of ore awaiting the pick and shovel of the 1111,icr' with thousands of mineralized acres yet untouched, it prPl to w 1 congress. Shall we strike our merchant marine flag to foreign nations? Verily, we believe the American nation will answer decisively in the negative, and command congress to speed up the pending bill. LOCAL POLITICS TO BOIL. I !. iof rba be e )ber E i. Mai par: fby ilv t 4 pro; chtl :nai safe-guar- i I. While the return to Salt Lake of Senator Reed Smoot, that great national character, who stands as firmly fixed in the forward march of the nation, in other states, as he- - does in Utah, for a time overshadowed the county political situation, and turned all eyes in the direction of the state campaign, yet recent developments indicate that tense interest in the success of. the Republican county ticket is being manifested. Few of the voters may realize it, but the fact stands out very prominently, that Salt Lake county is going to have one merry little campaign all by itself, between now and election day, November 7. The race for county sheriff will perhaps overshadow the rest of the ticket, for its known that the Democratic nominee is .willing to turn heaven and earth upside down to gain votes and that he is makin;j-million or more promises to suit the natural predilections of those who demand such promises. As for the all of the Republican county ticket it is taken for granted that they will be returned to office. Their records speak louder than mere words in their behalf, and then, too, the voters have not vet forgotten the orgy of spending indulged in by their Democratic predecessors who left a legacy of $600,000 for the Republican incumbents to liquidate as best they could. This debt has been paid a I i pre-electi- r I' t " I t on i f1 Altl t tes ger ress. dial afra: er r rdro ireig ing 'Use ness C s Tho my titio Exp bted hor ave i |