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Show THE CITIZEN twenty miles away from the scenes of the conflict being staged' lain effect his downfall. jttrbon circles to' ctef forces held another meeting about the end of the g The has at which the old gang was present and it is reported 5ent week signed the membership roll. another contingent of twenty-fiv- e !tJ s quadratic organization, so designated because it claims to be i ! anti-Kin- the square thing by both Senator King and the Demo-i- c l party of Utah, has gone so far it is learned as to practically 'urj a big state campaign to educate the rank and file i fixed upon toS cam- he party as to what is brewing anent the next senatorial and do ng to be coli fa. M This OUt every ar nook and old-time- say, is to be carried rs corner of the commonwealth and the Kingly and is to be record of bare for all the faithful to gaze upon. There be many of the war horses of the party who freely declare t Senator King has been more of a detriment to his state and his he assumed the airs and prerogatives of a senator, than ty, since asset, and they say that they are determined to remove him before The fore-n- g succeeds in completely disrubting Utah Democracy. was reported made as a motion by one of the irreconcilables at late meeting and it is also credibly reported that it was unanimous-lasse- d f( wind-jammi- torial stem chili andj wid lere es it s to self-aggrandizem- ng ent and approved. ind the assert that years ago, W. H. and Brother a attempted to boss the entire Democracy show of the state, but t they are now practically down and out in this respect. Opinions freely expressed, it is said, among the stalwarts of the Burbon ks, that there are many Utah Democrats more worthy of holding eat in the senate chamber at Washington than William H. King they likewise assert that they intend to send such a Democrat the National Capitol at the end of Senator King's legal sojourn Some of dra ante vm say campaign of education, the I til thei old-time- rs I -- pra that .tic thaa enct sta 1 vva 0 tail re t t vicinity. ? . r direction at Washington in the. hopes of impressing theTolk back home. Many of them resent the obvious activities of his press agents whom they declare must be working three shifts of a day to furnish the home papers with from two to three press-agearticles every hours. twenty-fou- r .. nt . f FIRE PREVENTION WEEK UNEVENTFUL. As usual when a matter of grave importance is placed before the public, like fire prevention week, which has just come to an inglorious close, because no one took any great interest in it except the fire department and a few citizens who have recently suffered fire losses, lack of information has been a big factor in its attitude of disinteressment. There is no question of the advisability of observing national fire day, which fell this year on October 9, and for that matter of extending the general observance of the event for an entire week. October 9 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Chicago conflagration; the fire loss for 1920 has been estimated by the committee on statistics of the National Board of Fire Underwriters at more than $500,000,-00- 0 or in excess of any previous year except 1906, when the San Francisco catastrophe occurred. It is evident that such destruction of material wealth cannot continue without disastrous results to our economic future as a nation. Some one has figured it out that if all the men, women and children in the United States could hurry past the seething crater of Mount Vesuvius, at the rate of three persons a second and if each cast into its destroying depth a five dollar gold piece and continued to do this day and night for a whole year, the money thus destroyed would nearly equal our 1920 fire waste. If, in addition, the statistician says, about every half hour one of the rushing throng of money toss-er- s, should fall itno the sea of molten lava, the fifteen thousand lives lost annually in this manner would approximate America's estimated fatalities by fire each year. It would seem, therefore, that every effort must be made to acquaint the public with the magnitude of fire destruction and the necessity for guarding against the common fire hazards. While carelessness may be considered the chief cause of fire waste, ignorance is no small contributing cause and consequently the importance of education in fire prevention can not be back to pre-wdays, many of the party chiefs love tell of the big contributions King claimed to have made to the ;y during those pioneer days. They frequently allude to the ipaign, years ago, when W. H. was a candidate for the lower se and he promised the campaign committee to cough up 500 :ks. After a most sanguinary battle of tongues, they say, which staged at the McIntyre building, King was finally persuaded to e through with $165. They aver that his contributions have ays been slim where party interests were represented and very en grudgingly given. There is a rapidly growing sentiment in this nation against There is a story of more recent vintage going the rounds among securities issued by city, county, state and federal governranks of the irreconcilables that at the time of the late Democratic ional convention at San Francisco. W. H. and Brother Sam being ment, because such securities come into direct competition with securities issued by public utilities and other industries and matergates to that moist affair, made themselves so obnoxious to many must pay, and because such securities the other members of the Utah- delegation that several meetings ially increase the rates they give the holders an undue advantage under the provisions of the by the delegation almost ended in fist fights. Two delegates, holders of taxable securities. Is there ink K. Xebeker and Cubert Olson, served notice on the King duet, present income tax law over reason to longer muse over the fact that they have jumped from fy aver, that they would never again attend a national convention any the nothing to almost $30,000,000,000 in the last two years? And the King family were oh the delegation and also told W. H. he s latest estimates of the contemplates taxing almost everyserving his first and last term as senator from Utah insofar as bonds. Think it over. ) were personally concerned. thing in the land except tax-fre- e ft is also said that when by some of those on the innermost-insid- e t'other Sam And perhaps it is pertinent to suggest that since the revenue returned from the national convention, he caused stories derived from the making and sale of vinous and spiritous liquors has circulated about certain delegates who had imbibed too freely the refreshments handed out around the Burbon conclave accusing been lost to the government, deficit thus created be assessed to the measure of prohibition to pass. With ein of having become almost maudlin drunk, and, of course, they folks who brought an alleged taxSam never drinks. But, they assert he peddled his booze story 50 per cent of the home people engaged in the manufacture of less booze in some form or other, it is hardly believable that they Mstently and continuously until some of the delegates became would stand for any sort of a direct tax being levied upon their and called a sudden halt. this stage of the game. There are other anti-Kin- g stories being freely bruited about, like product at me President Wilson came to Salt Lake to talk about his Ue f Maybe this regulation business would be simplified somewhat if nations and it is declared by the antis that because he was Aed at Wilson for leaving him off the Paris peace delegation, there was less whisk in whiskey and more pro in prohibition. 8 slipped out of the city a day in advance and hiked all the way to An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure Washington, leaving the Wilson reception up in the air so far Senatorial but most druggists would prefer to sell a pound of cure than an was concerned. representation And they say that W. II. is now spreading the salve m every ounce of prevention. Referring ar over-estimate- d. tax-exem- e rns 2- pa? ng fee tax-make- , in-a- nt N c, he ait vf J C rs pt |
