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Show THE CITIZEN result in the forfeiture of everything to which America was of the armistice or any agreement based upon itled by the terms uld term' sc with this threat was an attempt to shame the American the ratification of the Versailles treaty by le into approving that to enter into a separate peace with Ger-- y a(jing the argument our associates in the would be tantamount to deserting flids conflict and prove that we were faithless to the memory of Q immortal dead. And this insult to Yankee intelligence was pressed Coupled ;hi iit ir t lilnl 111 flu ratified, a separate peace with Germany, with-- , eiiV jtiveness in any way depending upon American ratifica- - fJotiated. .igned and its t .. j America was told by the selling agents of the Versailles treaty Germany would not make a separate treaty with the United sie was so 'ncnec se cou not, because England. alK cven et. al.. would not permit her to do so, and if she did this ijn would stand forever outlawed from the company of th Uitry . i s Vint: trick failed. The senate stood loyally by the constitution heeded the mandates of the architects of nation, all of whom The lit uttered strong proclamations against ev refused to be bulldosed or cajoled into foreign entanglements, giving the senates conditional advice and consent to the ratification of an infamous bar-i- n that infringed upon our constitution, scrapped our Declaration Independence, and made a mere mockery of our representative 1 lfi :oal enr pri; of lgT government. States has negotiated its separate peace treaty with It has been signed, sealed and delivered and will soon be Wmany. mally ratifid in both countries. It has been put across with the knowledge and consent of those former war associates who tried hard to inveigle us into guaranteeing their territorial integrity and Euro-i- n furnish the manpower to police irresponsible and war-ma- d opt i- It exk an: uty. - - countcr-revoiu-tio- met: esti-'- i FEDERAL AUTO LICENSES. edfi If students of politics will browse through old newspaper files they will discover that the expression the worst is over generally occurs a few months after the Republican party has come into power and have made an inventory of the wreck left by the Democrats. Russia Soviet authorities profess to believe that the- relief agencies of the United States will be utilized to foment a There is a decided reason on our hand to believe that Soviet control of relief will be used for the benefit of the Soviet army and Soviet partisans at the expense of starving men, women and children. states. ffec plished that much. Now let the shipping board look into the charge that British cotton manufacturers have been refusing to accept couou which came to England in American ships or under American insurance. Eight thousand citizens of Dayton, Ohio, one of the first cities to adopt the city manager plan of government, have signed up for a referendum to abolish the city commission and oust the manager. These citizens are displeased with a recent hike in their gas rate. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that, after all, it is men and not forms, that make for a good city government. Also it is citizens, like those of Dayton, with backbone enough to fight for a square deal, who usually get good government in the end. jThe United hat British ships in American ports, as it had authority to do under the Jones shipping act passed by the Republican congress last year. What happened? The British combine backed water and offered a compromise of 50 per cent of the cotton freightage from Alexandria to American vessels. So by standing up for our rights we have accom- Let us hope that it will be a 100 per cent pure American, delegation at the November disarmament conference. England is coming over in search of another article ten and the Japs want racial equality as well as the retention of all the advantages they now hold in the Far East, resulting from the secret pact entered into with the allies to secure their undivided allegiance during the worlds war. scent. f treatment it would take steps to apply discriminatory treatment to n. has been asked by the American Automobile Associa-- , Capital is nothing more than accumulated savings of surplus proto pass a reciprocal license act for automobiles. This suggestion duction. Lenine and Trotsky couldnt see any use for capital, so much to commend it in view of the fact that the present state they set in to destroy it. About twenty millions of Russian people inses are so void of any reciprocal arrangements that they are now appreciate the importance of capital. Jly an added burden upon the man who owns a car. Also in, view the ever increasing dependence on autos for intrastate travel and A French savant lias evolved a system to rejuvenate used lubriuortation such a measure should be speedily sanctioned cating oils. Now if he can only think up a way to run a car with commerce an J jibe constitution gives the congress power to regulate second-han- d gasoline, our troubles will be practically ended. the several states and under this authority there seems little jng ut that such a reciprocal license act would hold water. red in A naturalist comes along and says that a goose is not a goose : Secretary Mellon has advocated a uniform auto license tax of but all the same a man here in Salt Lake ccU looking for a beefsteak .1 Another d gfsuggestion is that it be assessed on Jthe value of the at. pre-wprices, will tell you that a- wild goose chase is still a hilc eminent authority may differ as to the size of the tax wild r,j goose chase. )w best to assess it, yet the fact that some sort of a reciprocal ainl) s the want crying need of the hour is patent to all the millions who Evidently the Canadian observer who recently declared that the d git irVn(l operate motor cars, people of the United State? arc embarrassed by their wealth, was the1 s not referring to about 104,000,000 of us who are hanging onto the taj. of the kite. A CHANGED POLICY. Congress - ar - A ! )ou may search the eight-yerecord of Wilsonism in vain for like this: A few weeks ago the Alexandria Produce Asso-at,?ar n; Egypt, asked that bids be submitted for the carriage of lyptian c 'it on to British and American ports. The representative Lnite-States Shipping Board, in Alexandria, submitted a bid behalf m his principal which was considerably lower than the n n Gf jroug s the y i bid. of vt hist men1' slid jhit a of procedure forbade the awarding of a contract un-"a- Withheld. I vear. m Lots of family trees bear mighty poor fruit; free verse is the triumph of mind over meter and now that business is on the mourners bench, there is every reason to expect a revival. S hy unanimous consent of the association. Fifteen . Vr tlu American bid and one voted against it because of influ-- . n,roilgh. to hear by the Liverpool shipping combine. The award hen our time to realize that patriotism isnt something to have in the mouth on the Fourth of July and in mothballs the rest of the Its about shipping board served notice that unless it received fair The man with the least push is the same fellow who is looking for the strongest pull. When a woman dies the men learn how good she was and the women how old she was. |