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Show Published Every Saturday WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. t BVGOODWIN8 A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager f SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ig postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal c months. I per year. j Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 8alt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 THE COUNTY OFFICIALS HA VE ACCOMPLISHED not interested in the movement for reduced taxation, public efficiency compatible with the utmost degree of public econR n the line, from national government to school district? omy. Where operating costs have exceeded those of 1920 there has keenly interested in tax rates and valuation schemes been a reason for such excess that could not have been dispensed intact. Not alone have pliwick? Who is not more inclined to blame local with and leave the records of the departments id' school district officials with all the crimes and the Republican incumbents been confronted with the necessity of to mankind, than the local taxpayer? .Who keeping down departmental expenses ; they have also, in some in!nown on the tax question, both local and stance, found it necessary to repair, renew and renovate their entire set of books to maintain the basic records of their office. taxpayer? Nobody. The Trend in County Affairs. Expenses Decrease $292,114.62. 0 f past event cast their shadows lie fore hence it is In the tabulated table that follows taxpayers may get, at a resume that the history of the Republican county glance, the actual and comparative expenses of county administravrrJt rst Xear office presages what may be e tion underthe democrats in 1920 and under the Republicans in 1921. admin-ypugThis tabulation discloses savings made over the manner of . pubpresent year. That 1921 was a year of county with great importance to the local taxpayer goes lic spending that obtained under a . democratic regime. In HURyin: There has been efficiency displayed in each and truth it represents merely the difference between the xtmetot insane delirium of the previous administration and the and, above all else, there has been practiced a i measure of economy that has netted mag-- - present attempt to bring county affairs back to normalcy. It may lults; ' a measure of economy as not disclose as effective and ot at all unfair to say that had the regime of delirium industrial conditions warrant; but, indubitably, it indicates a right V in spending as charged by the real estate board so trend and serves to dampen the ardor of those among us, who, for luring the late democratic county control, and which ulterior reasons, would have it appear that the Republican county .climax in 1920, been continued throughout 1921, that the officials indulged in a spending spree during 1921 that would liter(Utiscation and utter ruin by the population of ally put to shame anything that has ever gone before in the political and especially of the farmers would have become more history of the county. (than a mere pronouncement. That program was. busting This comparative tabulated statement of the actual operative flftr. It was a reckless orgy of politicians who, like the expenses of the county for the year 1920 under democrats and for. and incapable of the year 1921 under Republicans, should serve to clarify a very much 1l(flselves, were stung with that the hour of retribution was ever to come. But the beinuddled public belief regarding county spending during the first entance is now here and apparently many among a band year of Republican management, and for the convenience of Salt T Peple would hold a new county regime amenable for the Lake county taxpayers is inserted on another page. .nd insane delirum of their predecessors in office. Sis ex-th- ht afore-mention- ed . :ar-reach- ing far-reachi- ng tax-payi- ng war-madne- ss Democratic Legacies $84,816.50. legacies, representing unpaid bills and accumulated y H?1!?1 $84,816.50 confronted the Republican county took over the various county departments at the their official terms, January 3. 1921. Tn fact, it is state that democratic legacies accruing from the year f. ree tosum above stated, were paid by the Republicans during Ciaf;ar I11 ffrce- - In nearly every department there has been1 stra ubstantial saving to the taxpayers during 1921 over that ous year and in those departments where a decrease in sts were not recorded, unusual circumstances have had in.some cases the files and books of the departments NO INTERVENTION. offi-jjthe- ' i ne The policy of the last administration in stepping into wage disputes, fixing schedules of pay and rules of employment, with possible federal operation as the alternative, is not to be followed by President Harding. lie has made it plain that in the case of the threatened coal strike, he docs not propose to intervene with a plan for the operation of the mines, the settlement of the wage question, or the disposition of any of the other controversies between the operators and he miners. The attitude of the government will be to extend helpful aid in any plan that the employers and employees themselves be practically renewed throughout, thus entailing a may evolve. The department of labor is keeping in close touch with expense that was not forseen. It is onlv9 fair to sav developments in the coal situation, so that whatever Mr. Harding rtments have been conducted with the single idea of may do will be with full knowledge of the facts. 9 |