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Show THE CITIZEN Thus the state lent its authority to a traffic that grew to gigantic proportions and is still flourishing. The extracts bore no resemblance to the genuine extracts sold o Genuine extracts were confined to jn the days before prohibition. The fake extracts a few flavors and were virtually In the old days we often heard of lemon extract j were of all flavors. j ur vanilla extract, but never, for example, of grape extract. The ) fake, extracts contain from 47 to 50 per cent of alcohol. The re10 mainder is water, coloring matter and flavor. rs Dozens of firms have waxed rich in the last few years by making these extracts in partnership with the state administration and selling them throughout Utah. Hundreds of gallons were shipped nt 0ut of Salt Lake and other manufacturing points every month, spread-lin- g drunkenness and disease and adding to crime. During most of this time it was a secret traffic, although conducted with the full knowledge and connivance of the state administration. And after Mathonihah Thomas was appointed federal prohibition director it was conducted with his full knowledge and conpurchased alcohol by the barrel. ) 11 ; 1 non-potabl- ; e. I I j nivance. ins ite id. ffh' al- - lis- - rlv In at nds ur- - tlic 521. licli lias prohibitionists and from every platform shouted their pledge that they would make the state dry. And when they had won the victory jthev passed a law which they described as. bone dry. The public accepted them at their word and until The Citizen began its exposes the people of Utah believed that, aside from bootlegging, there was little or no liquor traffic in the state. But all the time the state administration itself was in the liquor business and the highest paid officials of the administration was, and is, Oscar Lehmann, who sells alcohol on the attorney generals permits. At first he was given cost plus 10 per cent and was growing rich. on that percentage, but Mhe liberal administration wanted to treat all its partners generously :;ind soon raised its bounty to cost plus 15 per cent. This has enabled ;Mr. Lehmann to make about $15,000 in the last ten or eleven months. Had the Democrats obtained office as wets and yet been compelled to pass a prohibition law they could have been accused of insincerity, but they went into office as bone dry prohibitionists and under the smoke screen of their own hypocrisy they created a liquor traffic and lent themselves to its spread. ! ! NEW ISSUE DAWNS oi 5 ople icvc roin the closing days of the campaign a new issue has arisen. Necessarily it cannot become a leading issue in the few days that remain before the election, but in it is involved the prosperity of our farmers iind laborers. It brings to the front once again the old issue of the In protective tariff. The decline in the hem scd it ion h-li- c CIS. r i tic m ire a lion ss.itc M'gli )ihcr li ral iin prices of foodstuffs and the importation of foreign goods made by cheap labor paid with depreciated paper money threaten the welfare of our agriculturists and toilers. hi the month of May 1,200,000 yards of cloth were imported hom abroad. That is twice as much as was imported under the henmeratic low tariff in the normal month of May, 1914. At that time (he tide of foreign importations under a policy that amounted to !rcc bade was beginning to swamp the country and 3,000.000 workwomen were thrown out of jobs. Soup houses began to appear all fver the land as in the Democratic hard times of the early and middle kinetics of the last century. At this juncture the great war supervened. In the last days of Rv. N14. the war in Europe began and the effect on business was kit in this country before the leaves of that grim autumn began ti driit earthward. Had it not been for the war we would have nl another era of crushing business depression, Urnll an era has once more started under a Democratic admin-trat- ii j n and our farmers and laborers arc again threatened with ! &rav J n . . UTAH OWES SMOOT TO NATION With the election at hand it appears most probable that Senator Smoot will be The people of Utah are as anxious as the country at large that they should be represented in the senate. during the reconstruction period by one who is noted above all our national lawmakers for his constructive ability. The eminent statesmen of the country among them many Democrats have repeatedly assured the people of this state that their senior senator has made an almost unparalleled record for achievement. On the other hand the relentless record of the house minutes shows that his opponent has accomplished nothing in his four re-elect- ed. years as congressman. Because of his energy, industry and unremitting application to the details of government, Senator Smoot has become, perhaps, the most noted senator of his time. It would have been impossible for him to have attained such eminence had he not served his country and his state with surpassing ability. Utah and the country at large need in this era of excessive national debt one who is capable of keeping expenditures within bounds, one who knows how to save the money of the taxpayers. It is not the orator or the statesman of many graces that the country requires in this crisis. The best friend of the people is, and will be for many years to come, the one who has the knowledge and the skill to prevent taxes from going higher. It was because Senator Smoot possessed a detailed knowledge of governmental operations beyond the knowledge of any other senator that he was able to cut down the estimates of a hopelessly extravagant Democratic administration to the extent of $1,500,000. We h of that amount would have been venture to think that not saved to the taxpayers if he had not been in the senate. There was no one else who possessed the necessary intimate understanding of departmental operations. At the crucial moment the country had the right man in the right place. No wonder that Senator Harding has said that Utah owes Sena- tor Smoot to the nation. No wonder that statesmen of both parties one-tent- f have been eager to pay homage to his achievements. HIS LAST WIGGLE injury. importation of 1,200,000 yards of foreign cloth in one month a beginning of a tidal wave unless measures be taken to dam deadly flood by means of a protective tariff. is not merely the wool grower of Utah and the mountain Hu- pk-- r ? !,ul ned UP and facing a period of loss, must be fully safeguarded. The Democratic nominee has realized the danger in which he is being placed by the new issue and he has resorted to a means of defense which has many elements of the comic. His remedy for everything is the League of Nations. He has no economic policy to apply to the situation and he contents himself with crying, Join the League of Nations and escape business depression. .. It is join the league for this and join the league for that. Doctor Cox offers it as a cure for every ill. If your rent is raised, join the league. If your taxes are high, join the league. If you have rheur , matism or the gout, join the league. ! j nly - - The forces of law and order in Utah cannot afford to overlook this record. To gain a victory at the polls the; Democrats posed as on . west generally who is injured. His loss, however great, is not to be compared with the loss that will befall labor. The workers will not lose sight of the fact that 90 per cent of the cost of that 1,200,000 yards of cloth is labor. In a word, these importations are threatening American labor with hard times and the empty dinner pail. The competition with underpaid foreign labor has started once more.- The proper way to meet the crisis is by a protective tariff. And in imposing this kind of tariff the interests of the farmer, who is tlu- - - The desire to be president on any; terms has caused Mr. Cox to begin wiggling and wobbling in a fashiQn he was pleased to denounce a few weeks ago. , The Democratic nominee has deserted the Wilsonites in the |