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Show THE CITIZEN 4 ministration to make it more simple and efficient and, above all, we must insist on lower taxes. It is the duty of everyone to toil conscientiously at the work of production and we can do no better than to put political parasites to work. Npr should the Republicans fear to denounce the waste of money on education. It is a strange and deplorable fact that while we are squandering scores of thousands of dollars on fads and fancies or we are underpaying our teachers. The best economy, the one that makes most surely for efficiency, is to pay the teachers adequately and to cut out useless educational machinery. Our Federal Reserve banking system is not being used to its full capacity. It will not be serving the interests of the state properly until the farmers can avail themselves of it freely and obtain cheaper money for production. If we are to have increased production we must make our money as well as our men work to the limit of capacity. That is the only comprehensive way to encourage production. The time is opening when the Uinta reservation will be developed in all its amazing riches. Its resources, almost without parallel in the same area anywhere on the globe, are to be taken from the earth and sent abroad to bless mankind. The people should look upon this development work with enthusiasm and lend every aid. ' Nor should the party hesitate to rid itself of politicians who have brought it into disrepute in other campaigns. No progressive campaign can be conducted rightly with ward bosses and ward heelers who have made themselves a stench in the nostrils of the people year after year. There are those who have worked practically, earnestly and, if you will, professionally, year in and year out, for the party, but to whom no stigma has attached because their services have been unselfish. It is easy to distinguish between those who have served the public and those who have served only themselves and injured the party. Those who have been liberal in supplying legitimate party funds and those who have been generous in giving their services should not be forgotten or go unrewarded, but those who have withheld legitimate contributions whlie seeking party favors and those who have used the party only for their own interests should be cast into the outer darkness. If the party will guide itself by these principles, it will, as we see it, both deserve and achieve victory. The interests in the state that stand for law and order, for morality and a people will support such a party. And at this moment they see that this party is sure to sweep the nation. They turn naturally to it as the constructive element in our civilization. A progressive party in Utah will not. make the mistake of sending its delegates instructed to the Chicago convention. Our delegates should be free to cast their votes in such a way, at the crucial moment, as to help the cause of progressivism. This they cannot do if d delegathey are hampered by instructions. We want no tion, but a set of free men who will be able to vote without fetters and in such a way as to promote the interests of the state and of the non-essenti- als . God-feari- Perhaps most of the members of Congress had felt the coercive power of the organized railway workers and realized how dangerous it would be to leave it unleashed to leap upon authority at any moment and try to bludgeon it into submission. Under the provisions of the bill the employes are free to do aj they have been doing to strike, whenever they wish, as a means of enforcing political or economic aims. The rest of the citizens can only speak through the ballot box, but the railway workers and other organized workers can adopt the direct action of a strike as1 a weapon if the ballot box fails them. The peril is real, but the common senseand loyalty of the American people organized workers and all is also real. What Congress has done by its compromise is to leave the strike weapon to railway employes, trusting in their common sense and loyalty. e The Senates clause was removed and a clause inserted providing for a system of adjustment boards to which all disputes are to be referred. These boards will have no power to enforce their decisions and there will be no penalty for refusal to abide by their decrees. Every decision, it is manifest, must be reasonably satisfactory to both sides or there will be a strike or the customary threats and intimidations. The only restraining influences will be public opinion and the reasonableness and patriotism of employers and employes. The next few years will furnish us with one of our most interesting experiments in liberty. The remainder of the bill, apparently, is an attempt to restore the roads to their owners with such provisions as will prevent bankruptcy and insure some earnings even to the weakest systems. The Public, we believe, will breathe freely now that the peril of government ownership is at an end. The experiment in government control was a sad revelation to the American people. Most of them probably thought that there was not much to the ancient maxim that governments cannot engage in business efficiently. If so, they were sion. anti-strik- - disillusioned long ago. American government is no better than any other government when engaged in business, whereas American enterprise and management usually are a little bit better than enterprise and management anywhere else on the globe. The consequence is that there is a wide gap between private efficiency and government inefficiency. HOOVER AS ISSUE MAKER ng hand-picke- nation. This is the faith and this the task of the Republican party. If it be true to its faith and its task it will inspire the confidence of all honest men and interests in the nation and in the station. The Republican party is the party that can do most for the nation and for the states in this crisis because the Democratic party is discredited and handicapped everywhere and because the Republican party, as of old, has prepared itself for the highest there is in achievement. RAILWAY COMPROMISE the railway law to please Labor, and CONGRESS compromised on railway Labor and Capital will compromise to please themselves without being too tyrannous over that patient subject people the Public. Organized Labor had two objects in view first, to keep the railroads in the hands of the federal authorities until federal ownership could be forced and, secondly, to defeat the e provisions of the bill. It failed in the first succeeded in the second. There was much to be said for the need of the e provi anti-strik- anti-strik- NOT all the kings horses, nor all the kings men, including Hoover, can keep the League of Nations out of the coming campaign. Those who urge, as does Hoover, that the ratification of the treaty be eliminated as an issue lose sight of the fact that the issue is not so much ratification as it is the League itself. The only way to eliminate the issue altogether is to defeat the treaty. If the treaty is ratified the League becomes a permanent feature of our politics and will be an issue as long as the United States is a member of the League of Nations. d in one who assumes the role of a statesman It is not to see that the issue of nationalism versus internationalism will be made a perpetual issue if we join the League of Nations, we adopt rigid reservations, lesser reservations or mild short-sighte- reservations. For example, the Constitution of the United States is always an issue in our politics and will continue to be as long as the Constitution exists. As soon as the Constitution was adopted it became a standing issue. For some years it was the paramount issue because it was necessary to add ten amendments before it would function adequately. The mere ratification of the treaty, with or without reservations, simply perpetuates the issue of nationalism versus internationalism. This does not mean a clear cut dispute as to whether we should with-drafrom the League, although that will be a feature of the con- There will be the question troversy. The issue will be many-sideas to how far we should meddle in European affairs, whether we should accept mandates, what oui obligations arc in a particular crisis. Europes politics will become our politics. If the Lodge reservations are adopted nationalism will have w d. r |