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Show THE CITIZEN mJt diminishing the spirit or influence of our nation, but to make that spirit and influence more real and more effective. Believing in our nation: thoroughly and unreservedly, confident that the evidence of the past and present justifies that belief, it is our one desire to make America more American. There is no greater service that we can render than to maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens. SERVICES CANCELLED. There will be no more church meetings held at the municipal camping grounds. There is no good reason why there should be. As a .rule people who are traveling are interested in sights and scenery of the country. Of course there are many people who attend churches on Sunday but they have a way of finding out where their rj respective churches are. This city is well supplied with churches. There are Mormon meeting houses in every ward, also the big tabernacle and assembly hall where services can be attended. The Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist, Christian Science, Greek, Episcopal, Hebrew, Lutheran, Unitarian, and others, and even a Buddhist church, are nearly all represented by magnificient buildings where services are regularly scheduled, so that if any one is religiously inclined it is very convenient and easy to go to the services. People do not like to have religion thrust upon them. In fact the majority resent the other mans religion. It is a delicate subject. You can attack a mans character and get away with it but when you attack his religion, there is generally a fight. Perhaps fewer colored people would be leaving the south today if the south would respect their legal rights. Nobody expects social equality among the races the negro does not ask that. But he does ask, and it should be granted equal protection of the law and equal chance to go into court in his own defense in civil and criminal actions. Webster City (Iowa) Freeman-Journa- l. 1 senator from MinnWhen Magnus Johnson, the Farmer-Labo- r I esota, was asked: Who is your favorite author? he replied: aint going to say that, because I aint going to show no preference. Herein he indicates that he is not the radical he has been pictured, but a typical conservative. Providence Journal. I When a man who said on the witness stand only a year or so ago that the Revolutionary war was fought in 1912, and that history is bunc, can lead in a straw vote for president, and when a man who said only a few weeks ago, I dont give a damn for books, can be elected U. S. senator in a state like Minnesota, one may well ask in the language of the sweet girl graduate, Whither are we Marion (Kans.) Record. drifting? The Canadian government may aid the United States in stopping the present bootleg traffic of liquor across the border. It would be 'to the interest of Canada to put a stop to all exportation of liquor to this country. Who knows but what some thoughtful mind has at last solved the solution of separating us from still more jack. More good roads leading to Canadian cities will be the next cry. I do not believe that the United States should enter into a world-wid- e career of disinterested violence for the right because, where both the lands and the issues involved are remote from us, our people wouldnt know with certainty where the right lay and wouldnt feel that wc ought to go into the quarrel. We have enough to do that is our business. Theodore Roosevelt. California cities claim that all their first class fruit is shipped out and only culls sold on their local markets, anji the growers claim that they do not even get' a fair price. Well, we know in this city that wc pay more than- a fair price for everything that comes from California. Judging from the price of California fruits and vegetables, it appears that they must be grown upon gold placer ground. - 5 The British frankly admit that their development of a naval base at Singapore is for the purpose of establishing a guard against Japan. The former alliance between the two countries was wholly unnatural, and was likely to create the impression that, in the event of a war in the Pacific, the British and the Japs would be aligned against the Americans. Australia, New Zealand and Canada were quick to repudiate any hint that they would support the home government if such should be the case. It is probable that tthe attitude of those dominions has had its effect on London, and been a strong innfluence in the termination of the alliance and the construction of the Singapore base. The suggestion that the British or French West Indies should be added to the United States is vehemently rejected by some Englishmen and Frenchmen, while accepted as a possibility by others. If the inhabitants of the islands are opposed to the change there is little likelihood that we would want them, but if a plebiscite among them should indicate a preference for American citizen-- , ship there is no moral reason why their mother countries should not consent to their transfer. Their acquisition by this country could be accepted as a substantial offset to the British and French debts to the United States. The president of one of the countrys leading railroads says that railroading is no longer a business ; it has become a calamity. The reason is excessive regulation by our national and state governments. It is a warning that our legislators should heed, if the calamity is not to be extended to include all the people through the collapse of their transportation system. A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect, once said Gen. Horace Porter. The definition would apply equally well to the various schools of radical thought that flourish in the country today. They revel in thfeory, which they try to substitute for proved standards of government and economics. If their intellects were developed proportionately with their education, they would know that their plausible theories are impossible of successful application to the world as we find it. Industry is free in Los Angeles in the sense that every man is free to seek employment under usage guaranteeing freedom of contract and under conditions which protect him from interference and dictation. Other cities are falling behind Los Angeles in industrial growth because they do not enjoy a like industrial freedom. Some of them are finding out the futility of industrial tyranny, whatever its source, and are preparing to rid themselves of it. Los Angeles Express. Century printing Company -- w. g. romney STOCK SALT LAKE CITY J. Q. CERTIFICATES-BON- DS Our plant is equipped to handle your Stock Certificates and Bonds in a very efficient manner. We also do Commmercial, Book and Catalog printing of the better sort. Phone Us and a Representative Will Call 231 EDISON STREET (Century Bldg.) Phone: WASATCH 1801-180- 2 Ryan . |