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Show THE CITIZEN 4 . it has tended to stick to the palm of the spenders and too often only; and practically sure increment. The system permits cities, its copper companions have found repose in the' profiteering reposi- - counties and states to kite expenditures; terids to make spea tories of those public and private corporations that have answered the of communities that would .normally; be conservative if bonds for. financing improve upon regulation urge to get the 'nickle with' both straight. and. compound interest. The work; The average, man or woman don't think renders it easy, and sometimes profitable, for. conniving 'much of spending a nickle all by its lonely; but add a copper two to shunt enormous upon ithe people: Vor three to the ante arid they will hesitate. Many will walk rather to- look aj These United States nor does Utahi-r-hav- e i Than knock the socks off a dime; others will wait until there is a : seas' to fact that the hn. lands to witness-th;rush, then climb on jand let the' coppers clank down in the metalbox of humanity is empty. It is as .barren,! almost, as the fabled with1 a- resounding bang while the nickle stays in their pockets. of Old Mother Hubbard; which contained narry a bone. The ... It is the psychology of the thing. Left alone the nickle pays its clay knows that something is. the matter, .but cannot devin securities "way freely and willingly, builds immense buildings and finances chain They have no access to avenues wherein r.stores Paired up with coppers it. becomes diffident, hesitant, con- They would hardly recognize one of' th6s$ fused and sometimes malicious. . an ordinary' Hog license if they happened to see it. But The. nickle built up the gigantic street car business in the United know that something has turned the relations of men of, we . States to the enviable1 position" it occupiedin the business world and industry into divergent channels and that they are suffering the1 minds of the people, prior, to the war. Today there is hardly a want and .privation because of - the change.;; ... street car.company able to stand alone on its own legs, because they President Harding, 'SenatorSmOpti aud A fWQthers atU; more 'or to 'hiafried the nickle, that made them measely ton have.tried to arouse interelst in a proposition ;to; do away .acouple great, ' ' 1 :" copper cent pieces. . that "enables" accumulated weAlth To dodge 'its share system When the street car companies realize that the war is .over, that national burden and which also tends toj lccp men. out of J nickle. nois .a; that, psychology business from reviving.5 They Have been unsuccessful this far longer legitimate pastime, profiteering. business of serving the people when of lack of is'a knowledge on the part of people and a failure to that-madand arid them coin learn the that big finally they .fully, bonds issues, now totaling in excess hend how to we will return "fromthen will them save utter ruin, prosperous 000,000,000, . threatens to impound the financial strength of th the good old "days of satisfying and refreshing street car rides' for of one class.. try, solely in and for the interests ? ' five cent for a single piece. everybody tax-payi- ng plan-won'- t tax-burde- ns - . , , : . 1 'war-ravag- ed - ... 1 ( tax-exem- pt . Tax-exemp- t" , . ' -- . J f , - i e tax-exem- pt - ! 1 . .- .' V - KINDNESS TO ANIMALS WEEK. ! - ' V ONE REASON FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. people, perhaps, have wifnesx .Thoughtful, are?. They represent i. i. Ejo.you know. what of regret, the growing" disregard ;for. them state. and municipal bonds issued" to the tune of tens of thousands of increasing pangs life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' of our. feathered and interest as six cent as theinvestor millions.; ..They,pay . high per friends of forest, mountain and plains arid of outdomestic anic income to cent tax a not the often more yet single owner'pays The Citizen suggests that all who are inclined to become on these investments. the government ested in Kindness to Animals Week take; inspiration. from no these of bonds, wealth paying exempt prefer Naturally men, lowing, written especially for this magazine by Rev.; HcA as safe as and risks no other income or any practically tax, bearing '' Reherd of Westminster college ; in matter no investment best government bond, to any industry It is well just now to have our minds turned toward the is its own itsurface. the on how attractive Money may appear of kindness to animals. War very naturally develops the brute and of millions that mentor it travails not at the .thought hopeless It is unavoidable that after steeling ourselves to the awfulc be if it not sustenance or work benumed humanity :may go without of war we should suffer a. blunting of our finer, sensibilities, for make in avenues those that invested proand plentiously wisely such an experience it is well' to 'have pressed upon us the No wonder masses. the gress, for work and contentment' as among kindness not only to human beings, but to birds and aniniak in is invested the financial experts teir us more money The Creator has inhabited the world with life suited to bonds than in the .nation's business. vironment and fitted to render service to man" and to all cr and closed i closing.down There is the life of the explains why so many factories are the life of --the canyon, thelii forest; securities, next to an impotent tariff, sysevery Vday,.. domestic animals all about us. field; there is the life this from tem, are the greatest factor in directing industry r away unwise to mistreat our domestic "animals as it was for a master country .and across the pond to foreign shores. south to misuse his slaves in the days of slavery. It is uns a . jThis partially explains why so many Americans,. including over an economical point of view to thoughtlessly injure or kill ot million are out of work and roaming around hungry. and animals which . f, i. is unwise from an it our It crops. protect socialandidiscontentedi.fast becoming apt students and adherents of of view to reduce the number of birds which give life point. istic and communistic doctrines;; These idle men are becoming sorely song to our pleasure grounds ; "but above all. it is an .injtuj indiof their account no take economic that .conditions, grieved ,oyer finest' sensibilities of the man himself-wheneveone of ns vidual or collective welfare! They are becoming restless and embittakes the life of a harmless animal or bird for no otherf lessly tered because, ready to labor, they can find no work to which to turn than to satisfy a desire to kill.- hands. willing Man is never fully rounded until he can look upon him .c and Granting the truth of the maxim that money is some measure a, protector of the lower creatures who are that it aspires to nothing higher than the accumulation of capital, why and helpersin the walk of life.' The thoughtful ob panions securities trouble his should the "man able1 to purchase of the Kindness to Animals Week should have a;s? lutarj'' consciousness with a single qualm for the. status of those, who must upon the nation. , work to live ? With no taxes topay, with invested capital accumulat' - :k of safe a rate modest at interest, , why though ing satisfactorily 5 s'?tcI! Of course the Democrats are going tQ should a capitalisfrisk his money in the experiment of hiring men in make 10 or even 15 per cent in profit and give back time an official of their' faith ig turned out 6f of fic- - to industry-tof it to the state and the federal government in for one in full sympathy and. accord with. President Har half or three-quarte- rs of efficiency. But such demonstrations should have no taxes? So" the capitalist today, sets pretty in his .luxuriously outfitted, upon his plans. to carry out Republican policies and l.in&U office .with desks, .private lockers and safety boxes and bank vaults back to normalcy than the howls of a. spoiled chile frclj! bonds, which bring in a nice, easily earned fron the jam .shelf of . a pantry. bulging with old-fashion- Tax-exempt;-securi- ed, ties ci aod ll , . L il, if , d tax-exem- pt . Tax-exem- pt of-th- e -- ex-soldier:b- , ae ! . 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