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Show ' f P i tm 4 v. s .4 rp ij Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. P. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, Including postage' $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. . a; w.' f vi ii ; !,. Single copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay-to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered aa second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 WILSON CLINGS TO WAR TYRANNY X f? q s I. ' r-- r. li Charles E. Hughes, when he warns us of our peril in this regard, will not be considered an alarmist. He is one of our coolest and sanest thinkers, and yet he admonishes us that the nation- is not measuring up to its obligations. u A passion for legislation is not a sign of Democratic progress, he said, and in the mass of measures introduced in the legislatures ri of our free commonwealths there is too little evidence of perspective a and an abundance of elaborate and dreary futilities. Occasionally U a constructive measure, of great benefit is skilfully planned, but-wij democracy. X Nearly two years after the cessation of hostilities a federal are constantly impressed with the lost motion and the vaste waste judge at Los Angeles refuses to issue an injunction against the in the endeavor of democracy to function wisely. Our material progress, Mr. Hughes continued, seems to have seizure of a private companys oil supply by the navy. He founded his decision on the existence of a state of war. Legally, though created complexities beyond our political competency, and there has not actually, we still are at war and the autocratic wartime powers been a disposition to revert to the methods of tyranny in order, to of the government are made to do service in a period of utter meet the problems of democracy. result We went to war for liberty and democracy, with-thh peace. a that we fed the autocratic appetite, he declared, and we have The administration has opposed every effort to It did not know how to cope with the new problems seen the war powers, which are essential to the preservation of , peace status. if deprived of war powers. It was an amazing admission that the the nation in time of war, exercised broadly after the military exiginmachinery .of government had broken down and that law and order ency had passed and in conditions for which they were never could be preserved only by a war dictatorship." tended, and we may well wonder whether constitutional government Even those who secretly gloated over the use of the Lever as heretofore maintained in this Republic could survive another great law to suppress strikes or the use of the espionage law to punish war even victoriously waged. race rioters in Chicago who chanced to be foreigners, must have Apart from these conditions, Ave cannot afford to ignore the realized that the Republic was failing to function. At best we are indications that the essentials-o- f liberty are being disregarded. Very information has been laid by responsible citizens at the knows no law. that recently pleading necessity 4$ When the war came we prided ourselves on the wonderful bar of public opinion of violations of personal rights which savor of the worst practices of tyranny. And in the conduct of trials besolidarity of our people. Rich and poor, capitalist and laborer fore the courts we find a growing tendency on the part of prosecutors with few exceptions fell into line and saluted the commander-inchie- f of the army and navy and exultingly accepted his martial to resort to grossly unfair practices. The Republican party intends to try the experiment of setting r rule. When our enemies pointed out to us that American freedom has 5't was threatened we smiled in the tranquil confidence that as soon the Republic in operation again. The Democratic administration 4 shunned the experiment in fear and trembling. Feeling snug and as the war was over the country would be safe for democracy. Our enemies had been mistaken about us so often that their jeers secure within a ring of bayonets, so to speak, it docs not dare to did not affect us in this instance. Our freedom was too' deeply proclaim a state of peace, abandon war autocracy and take up i rooted to be overturned by a few years of war autocracy. Our again the task of operating a free government. government was too successful in' its operations to be weakened by the despotic discipline .of war. VISIONS OF THIRD PARTIES But when peace came the administration at Washington was since Only one Third Party program has assumed definite form unable to return to the orderly processes of the Republic. It found of his own the laws of the Republic too feeble to deal with the crisis of the new the Republican convention, but Mr. Hearst has a plan take its order. And now, almost two years after the armistice, we are and others have hazy notions of a third party that might inspiration from the Progressive platform of 1912. employing the machinery of war to operate the government. f Hardly a day passes that we are not reminded of wartime autocracy carried over into times of peace. The president tells us these laws hastily placed on the statute books , to meet the exigencies of war are still needed, but to admit that they are needed almost two years after the wars termination is to admit that our government is unable to deal with the new problems without resorting to tyranny. It is to admit that our representative Republic has come upon a time in its history when it must substitute- - dictatorship for i - e x e j - re-establ- ish ) t. ?s , i |