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Show THE CITIZEN 50. LIMITA TION OF ARMAMENT FOR THE GUN TOTERS If tain H, it is ail les yy ser dis, tion 0i own el orkings) ather ci aund. iated the nations that presumably won the war are discussing advisability of limiting naval construction, which may possibly of armed land forces, it appears that it up to an abridgment be appropriate for local and state authorities to cut in on the over the man who carries a gun. Hnd hold a pow-.woOf all the laws of the country this one prohibiting the toting of with the pos-- e .pocket firearms is the most flagrantly disregarded, exception of the prohibition law, which no one pretends to keep. in the gun toter carried his side-arIn the the thief, the eopen, because it was the fashion. Today the sneak, is con-jr- y )ffard and the bad man carries his gun concealed because it to the recognized rules of society to pack a gun in the open, also because without it he would cease to be any kind of a terror While i(j w ij contin, )r until )roductj ijoins y portj , ms good-old-da- ys !d mankind. true men who are not so bad carry guns more from habit or a to n good citizens ise of barvado than for any other reason ; others nd wha ten carry them purely for against the bad man and '! coward, who are ready to shoot at the first opportunity. All are il violators of the law of the land. operat) nvincid If the existing laws against carrying concealed weapons were lopme American and foreign born gidly enforced against every person r cond like and if the penalty were changed toa long penitentiary offense, es wel here would be less murder and other outrages committed and :ss had less work piled up for the insane experts. The unarmed is frj Some -- self-protecti- on !' ,e con-iderab- y 5 ly man seldom commits a criminal act and is more apt to retain his normal mentality under trying circumstances. Every time a gun toter kills one of his fellow creatures the insane experts immediately get busy. It appears our officers and courts are doing the best they can under existing laws, but, obviously, the business of stamping out crime which may be traced to the man who carries a gun, is becoming a farce. Criminals have no fear of the law against carrying concealed weapons. A small fine has no terrors for them. They merely pay the fine and shove the gun back in their pocket. But serving two to five years in a state penal institution at hard labor would hot appear so simple a matter. It would take up too much time and would not be quite as comfortable as remaining on the outside of the prison walls even though they were forced to go gunless.' And if the second or third offense meant ten or fifteen years behind the bars it is permissible to believe that the practice of carrying concealed weapons would almost entirely cease. At any rate it wouldnt be on the increase in the chief centers of population and in many country sections, as it is at present. If the nations can formulate sane plans to limit the manufacture and display of gigantic guns, the habitual gun toters should be forced to resort to fist fighting as an exemplification of any future insane stunts they may desire to indulge in. whj vere istantl ANTI-KIN-G operj sn wij upon! )n wifl FORCES DECLARE FOR A WHISPERING CAMPAIGN wage more staggering assertion could possibly come down from ;he secrets and enshrined circles, wherein abide the anti-Kin- g forces, inage than the recent s cap pronouncement that they are to soon inaugurate a to accomplish the utter defeat of Senator of th 'whispering campaign 'V. II., whom they have every reason to presume, will aspire to succeed himself as junior senator from the sovereign state of Utah, at ntyrd the next congressional election. ler The Citizen has been reliably advised that another meeting of ecorj arael the g crowd was quite recently pulled off in a large and office building. Suffice it to reIver luxuriously appointed, down-tow- n mark that the coherts of the antis reported all well and happy Par and ha that they increased their potential strength by upwards of seventeen new members, each of whom took the oath to help bring about the nullification of the Kingly senatorial spree with rmej evident enthusiasm. reati alacrity and whole-hearte- d maj But getting back to this whispering campaign stuff it is said that it is to be extended into every nook and corner of the state and nina that it has been chosen as the most effectual and systems of ion propaganda against the personal aspirations of the King family, in thaj because of the great success and satisfactory results obtained similar ion campaigns of past history. forces were in quiet sessThe other night when the anti-Kin- g aii1 ion, somewhere not in France the duplicity and the double dealim ng of the junior wearer of a Utah toga, was made the subject for oil many direct thrusts and jibes by proponents of limitation of senathi orial preferment for Y. II. They referred with much feeling and hi a contrite and solicitious consideration to the doubtful physical con'llj dition of former President Wilson, whom- they claim, Senator King Z1 "cut far afield to double-cros- s when he was fighting his most strenuous battle for recognition of his cherished league. This sen know) No i anti-Kin- 1 far-reachi- ng - atorial duplicity and political backsliding, the antis aver, has made them more than ever determined to relegate to the rear all Kingly senatorial or political hopes, cither of the present or the future. at It is said there were several former federal office-holdet. the big They stated, unequivocally, that had Senator King kept his hands off the political situation at Washington, they would still be holding down their positions. They avered that it was his meddling that aroused the Republican party to take such swift and decisive action in Utah regarding the replacement of Demowith Republicans. By reason of his double-dealin- g cratic tactics, arrogance and impetuous meddling, he has lost all his influence at the seat of government, they asserted. Someone was author of the statement that W. II. had it all marked down on the slate to head the Democratic party in Utah, in event Tom Taylor became governor and that lie, and King Samuel, were to have divided the honors of chief dispensers of state patronage. The main idea, this informant disclosed, was to build up an impregnable King family machine. And now The Citizen is at liberty to say that at least three very well known and prominent Utah Democrats are soon to declare their candidacies, openly, and above board, to succeed this man King, whom they opine, is now persona non grata to many Utahns. rs anti-mee- pie-eate- rs With the downfall of state socialism in North Dakota, failure of the national railroad strike, prospects for lower tax rates, cheap money beavailable, Liberty bond issues approaching par, more building is ing undertaken and unemployment reduced, it seems normalcy getting just a bit closer. |