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Show THE CITIZEN 6 m cause. Those whcrdo not care to tell you the truth, he says, tell you that it would be possible for other nations to lead us into war, whether we willed it by our own independent judgment or not. His answer is the bald assertion that there is nothing in the covenant that impairs the right of congress, using its own independent judgment, to declare war. The covenant and Article X speak for themselves. Article X is a contract binding us to preserve the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the member nations. If there is nothing in Article X that impairs the right of congress to act freely in accord with the power given it by the constitution, why is that Mr. Wilson and those who are like minded object to a reservation to that effect. Such a reservation was offered by Senator Lodge and approved by the vote of the senate, but President Wilson declared in his Salt Lake speech and elsewhere that it cut the heart out of the league. Nor dare we ignore that part of Article X which relates to the existing political independence of the member nations. When the treaty of Versailles was in the making, European empires controlled as subjects hundreds of millions of alien people, and when the treaty was finished millions more, by the terms of the agreement, were turned over to these empires. By Article X we plight ourselves to bind these people irrevocably to the conquering empires. At this moment enslaved peoples are struggling to be free and are being shot down with the machine guns and rifles of empire. As an English paper, quoted by Senator Borah, remarks : We promise this population (of Mesopotamia) its freedom and we hang them and shoot them for claiming it. ,It is a disgrace to our imperial record. And yet the American people are asked by their president to perpetuate such disgraces in the name of international idealism An appfeal from the Wilson of today to the 'Wilson of 1918 will be enlightening. To representatives of European powers in Paris he said: If the world should be troubled again, if the conditions which we all regard as fundamental are challenged, the guarantee which will be given (the league covenant) WILL PLEDGE THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL SEND ITS ARMY AND FLEET ACROSS THE For President WARREN G. HARDING Vice-Preside- nt CALVIN COOLIDGE United States Senator REED SMOOT Congress First District DON B. COLTON of Vernal, Uintah County Second District E. O. LEATHERWOOD, of Salt Lake City Governor CHARLES R. MABEY Justice of Supreme Court term) (Ten-yea- r J. E. FRICK Secretary of State H. E. CROCKETT Attorney General HARVEY H. CLUFF Treasurer W. D. SUTTON Auditor MARK A. TUTTLE of Public Instruction Superintendent GEORGE THOMAS Presidential electors Warren L. Wattia, Mrs. George T. Judd, James A. Melville, Jr., J. Howard Garrett ! REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES State Senators OCEAN. HENRY M. STANDISH MRS. C. S. KINNEY HARRISON JENKINS critic says the current poetry isnt as good as it used to be. He probably was thinking of Tennysons Brook, 'which is current poetry that goes on forever. Representatives MRS. MAY BELLE DAVIS M. S. WINDER E. R. CALLISTER MRS. CLOA CLEGG JAMES IVERS, Jr. S. W. MORRISON, Jr. A . Owing to a shortage in White Houses the Democratic candidatewill continue to accupy Trails End. - Bryan says he is a Democrat still, but the Democrat stills out our way have a larger alcoholic content. sell-o- ut is apt to prove a S. J. QUINNEY Commissioners year-ter- MISS LILLIAN CUTLER C. FRANK EMERY Treasurer EDWARD GROESBECK Auditor Attorney ARTHUR E. MORETON M. L. SCOTT Assessor bier. Surveyor HAROLD CHRISTOPHER- SON. M. L. CUMMINGS . The White Sox admit they made an error. City Judges ' FRED W. CROCKETT N. H. TANNER NOEL PRATT BENJ. JOHNSON They got all our money arid then lowered the prices. We hear that the Poles consider their ethnographic frontiers to be the North Pole and the South Pole. Constables GEO. P. TINGES PETER HANSEN REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL TICKET Since Utah went dry the rules for admission to the bar are a little more stringent! $ $ $ $ The men who lose their money at shell games always suffer from shell shock. : It looks as if womans sphere is going to be the entire globe, i 2- - Sheriff ' CLARENCE COWAN 011c WIRTHLIN, m Recorder cell-i- n. The beer men who are for Cox should order him JOSEPH E. L. BURGON, Clerk All the cars seem to be following the Ford. The White Sox ALMA SWENSON GEORGE W. WELCH CURTIS Y. CLAWSON For District Judges MORRIS L. RITCHIE ALBERT R. BARNES EPHRAIM HANSON G. A. IVERSON WILLIAM M. McCREA LEE B. WIGHT For District Attorney E. A. ROGERS |