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Show -- v Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor. JAMES P. CASEYBuainess Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico 12.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. 8lng1e copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay- able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake March 3, 1879. of Act under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 i Nepotism had much to do with the defeat of the Democrats in the last election. As much as anything else the crowding of offices with the relatives of officials brought the party into disfavor. In fact, it was an element perhaps a dominant element in the inefficiency which aroused the indignation of the voters. Nepotism is a besetting sin in politics. It is not confined to any one party. Unless the public is watchful and unless there is an organ of public opinion to protest officialdom will be cursed with nepotism. The Citizen sees signs and hears rumors of nepotism among the officials-eleof the Republican party. Nothing is so calculated to bring the new administration of the state and county speedily into of the county has announced that disrepute. One of the officials-elehe will appoint a brother his chief deputy. It would not make any difference in the principle even had the brother worked for the ticket in the last campaign, but it happens that he was in Los Angeles during the contest. This is a bad beginning and we wonder that the county committee has been silent. What are the chairman, the and the- other active and faithful members of the county committee going to do about it? Are we to understand that the committee, after undertaking to pass on the eligibility of candidates for office, will make no protest in such a flagrant case of nepotism? It would not be amiss at all should the committee condemn nepotism in an official pronouncement. The memories of the county committee officials and members are not so short that they cannot recall what damage neootism did to the Republicans' six and four years ago. The county was first to ct ct vice-chairm- an - fall into the hands of the opposition and it was largely as a result of nepotism. County officials were filling their offices indeed, they of near and were creating positions to satisfy the office-hungremote kinsfolk. In the state administration Governor Spry was steadfast in his refusal to appoint relatives to office, but not all the Republican officials profited by his example. The consequence was that the Republican record in this regard began to be offensive to the people and the party lost its popularity. We hear with genuine satisfaction that Governor Mabey has announced his unflinching hostility to nepotism and the piirty should not fail to give him its support. This will mean not mere in praise of the policy, but aggressive action to prevent state and county officials from inviting their families to chaperone the new er lip-servi- ce administration. The new county official who has announced that he will make his brother chief deputy is Edward Groesbeck, elected to the office of treasurer. It would be an unfortunate step for both Mr. Groes-bec- k and the party and it is not too late for him to think better of it. The Citizen had hoped that all the new officials, guided by the political history of the last few years, would be careful to guard s, that they would begin their administrations in a against way that would reassure the public and so conduct their offices that the party would gain increasing prestige. If even a few of them begin to emulate the bad example of the Democratic officials they will bring considerable discredit upon the party. At all events this is the time to issue a warning; and it is just as well that the warning should come from our own side. mis-step- WHA T PILGRIMS HA VE MEANT TO 0 UR CO UNTR Y In superlative phrases the Pilgrims have been praised for what they were, but not so much attention has been paid to what they have meant to the country. The peril of superlatives usually is their bedazzlcment. After we have vagueness and a sort of white-ho- t absorbed their brilliancy we feel as did Sidney Lanier after reading Svinlmrne. lie said that it was like sitting at a banquet board filled v. ith all manlier of gold and silver plate only to find that the feast r insisted of nothing but salt and pepper. We have heard the Pilgrims praised in the last few weeks for Leals and institutions that were and arc the common heritage o nations. It is proper to use the word nations rather than peoples because some of these nations have large infusions of other blood and one our own is no longer predominantly of the Anglo-Saxo- Anglo-Saxo- n n. We have read, for example, that the Pilgrims established trial by jury as one of their basic institutions, but, as we all know, trial by jury had been established in England hundreds of years before the departure of the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims are represented as fleeing from religious persecution amf establishing religious freedom, but the statement needs |
