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Show 4. Jl Published Every Saturday ! BY ; Ualx IfjO 10 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLI8HINQ CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: oostage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, morths. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the' Postal ?! per year. cents. copies ' Single Payments should be made 10 to The Citizen. by Check, Money.Order or Registered Letter, pay- - . Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as seeond-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake of Act March S, 1879. under the Utah, City, Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. , Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 POLITICAL SANDS xcept for the obvious fact that the people of these United conviction that they do ihaye arrived at a carefully considered e ant any entangling alliances with European or Asiatic coun-thaspect of affairs political seem to be still rent wide open aftermath of the greatest of all cataclysms, known to human y the worlds war. Scattered all about us on every hand at the beginning of- the nt Republican administration was the great destruction wrought misfit Democratic administration ; also, to a. large extent, the profiteering miasma of dollar accumulation which had .twisted il conditions out of alignment and ensnared the popular fancy e - itill by rampant. he spirit of destruction was abroad in the land. We had taken lillion of our boys from the walks of peace and the fields of ictions and set them at the grim business of destruction of values he taking of life, which is the business of war. That conflict has over, it is true, for a matter of three and a half years ; but the try has experienced many wear months of continuous strife with of destruction and profit gleaning, built up dur-i- r years under a shamefully paternalistic government, and which lot yet been fully eradicated from the minds and habits of the fstem and spirit le. the campaign of 1920 were clean cut and well un- by the rank and file of the voters. They readily visualized irecarious future of this great republic as an adjunct of a world They rightly sensed the awful calamity that would behall America if it be made over into a world-stat- e with divided spver- h, and with a vision as clear and with a purpose as unswerving t of the founders of the country, they elected to retain all that been given them, all the fathers had fought for and won. That the people would turn. against their free form of government hand it over, almost without qualification .or saving clause, to Ad and dictated to by a- - handful of high-brointernational weians, for the most part of foreign birth and inclination, was linkable. The issue of that campaign was never in doubt from But the result of the solemn referendum that swept the ihlicans into office, was so gigantic, so overwhelming that it left serried and gasping for singed ranks of the world-uplifteThe issues of w rs Ah. lotting saed the. political status of the nation, the newly elected r'stration, which carried into office along with, it, nearly a full state, county and city officials, set out to rehabilitate a hopelessly into debt, with an army of its overseas fighting forces, and with business tons tangled and uncertain as never before. ls ijor task has been only partially accomplished. It is a filing for the combined action of the big minds of the nation. nt a work for one man, nor is its solution to he found in the n sands of political preference ; it is a job for the people them 'Ponged almost unem-!tOut-ram;i- ng selves to take hold of, to boldly assume and to accomplish in that i tide the ominous in back turned which! same masterful manner they of internationalism that once threatened to engulf them. A weed never droops so low, nor becomes so withered and shriveled from the heat, but that it may be restored by the application of a little water. .As with the weed, so it is with this fetish of internationalism. With its roots deeply planted in the fertile soil of propaganda, it has survived the calamity of 1920 and is still one of the ranking questions of the. day and hour. It is being, kept alive by . . ranting uplifters of the holme country and by an army of foreign potentates and representatives, who never cease 'to clamor for American participation in the political affairs of. the. old world. Watered by a perpetual flow of smudge persuasion, much cant and considerable vindictiveness, it has kept the indescribable derangement of European internal affairs to the front, almost to the exclusion of home condi- tions. With heart bowed down by debt, with unemployment only partially relieved, with tax rates at the point of confiscation because of lessened earning capacity owing to the trend back to normal conditions, the people find they are stilTbeing fed on the same nauseating international fodder; that they are still being told, far too often, that their duty lies across the seas and that until they dig down into their pockets and relieve world financial chaos, they must suffer un told hardships and agonies of mind. Lloyd George of England never sits down to table to ask a blessing that he does not find some excuse to refer to the recalcitrant attitude of the United States in world affairs. .Home grown and imported lecturers continually hold to the task of telling the people that they are laggards in their duty to Europe. And in the same breath they tell them they must buy European made goods to the exclusion of their own make ; that they must finance Europe first and America afterward ; that they must sacrifice and slave for many years to come in favor of the old world if they would ever witness a return to prosperity. Constant dropping of water will wear away the hardest stone and it is small wonder that the people find themselves confused and, in things political, milling about like a herd of stampeded cattle,' because of all this foreign and home brewed preachment together with the gigantic task, of national rehabilitation that confronts them. Millions have become indifferent ; thousands have turned in the direction of the despoiling radical politicians ; while over the nation as a whole there seems to have come a reaction in favor of something different, some change, either from within or without, that will lighten the burden and give back to the country the comparatively peaceful and care-fre- e period. days of the pre-wThus the shifting sands of things political find the people apparently blindly searching for a method to lessen the costs of government and to bring the nation back to normal. These shifting political sands have been reflected in the primaries already held in several T ar i i |