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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr.. W. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: in the United States, Canada and Mexico $2.00 per year, Including postage $1.25 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal fa Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. Payment 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 Salt Lake of March 3, 1879. Act under the Utah, City, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 FOURTEEN QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT ERE are some questions Mr. Wilson should answer while in Salt Lake : 1. Why did you abandon open covenants openly arrived at and recognize the validity of secret treaties ? 2. Why did you permit Great Britain to make a reservation in advance against freedom of the seas and, therefore, against disarmament ? 3. Why has not the United States as much right to make reservations as Great Britain? 4. Why must the United States disarm in view of the fact that Great Britain has reserved the right to have the biggest navy? 5. Why did you abandon the cause of Russia after asking for the evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the. best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy, etc? 6. Why, after demanding the return of Alsace-Lorraito France, which, as you said, had unsettled the peace of the world for fifty years, did you consent to the Shantung infamy, which creates another Alsace-Lorraiproblem in the orient ? 7. Having admitted that you abandoned American principles in Paris when you gave Shantung and its 36,000,000 people to Japan, having admitted that you did not get what you went after, will you not now admit that you blundered in going to Europe at all? 8. In view of the fact that you failed to make good your 1916 promise to keep us out of war, will you explain to us why we should Qtrust you when your promises to keep up out of war by a new device the League of Nations? 9. Is it not true that Article X and other articles of the league will involve us in foreign wars to maintain boundaries and to defend all our associates against aggression? 10. Is it not true that if Article X had been in a covenant of a League of Nations in 1778 France would have been compelled to fight against instead of for the American colonies, and is it not true that if such a covenant had existed in 1898 we would have been compelled to leave Cuba to her cruel fate as a thrall of Spain? 11. Is it not true, in case of a revolt in Ireland and in case outride nations attack the British empire to aid Ireland, that the United States, if so directed by the league council, will be forced to fight ? against the coalition attacking the British empire 12. Why do you now say the terms forced on Germany arc deserved because the people were back of the war when, at the time we were entering the war, you declared that we had no quarrel with the German people? 13. Why is your administration advocating universal military service and conscription for the United States when the treaties with Germany and Austria prevent those nations from having enforced military service ? Is that not fastening militarism on the United States while eliminating it in Germany and Austria ? 14. In view of the fact that you have vaguely hinted at the great loss to this nation if the treaty is defeated, will you not explain what the United States gets out of the treaty? Is it not true that we asked for nothing and got nothing? Believing that fourteen is magical number, we shall not continue the interrogation, but will be delighted if the President will answer all the fourteen questions or even half of them. FORD FINANCES LEAGUE BOOM ne ne to the President and ALLUDING pleasantly Senator Sherman of Illinois said Mr. Henry Ford the they were two souls with but a single thought, two minds that blink as one. This joyous quip was suggested to the senator by a new activity of the tireless fabricator of jitneys and peace tidings. About the first of August the Ford publicity bureau, established at Mount Clemens, Mich., to guard and defend the fame of the Lords, pere et fils, during the Chicago Tribune libel suit, sent to the smaller papers of the country a letter, signed by the Western Newspaper Union, offering to furnish them with publicity on the Presidents forthcoming tour. The letter stated that The Mount Clemens News Bureau would send a correspondent with President Wilson on the trip and added, Daily reports of the reception accorded the President and his speeches will be furnished by the Bureau in plate form of one or two columns free of charge, transportation paid, to such papers as desire them. In conclusion the letter said: The service will be confined exclusively to reporting the adoption by the country of the deNavelopments in the campaign for the principles of a League of tions. We do not quote the last sentence merely to laugh at its fantastic had it in obscurity, we wish to show that the Ford publicity bureau mind to furnish propaganda for the President and his covenant, but we pause cheerfully to ask what in the name of all that is pure and the adoption by the holy in diction, docs the letter writer means by We have heard of adopting a policy-ancountry of developments, |