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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: idln ilx postage In the United months. Subscriptions States, Canada and Mexico, $2J0 per year, to all foreign countries, within the. Postal Single copies, 10 cents. Psymente should be msde by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Cjtlzen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. Salt Laks City, Utah. 811-12-- pir year. 13 RELIEF FOR THE TAXPA YERS in every aspect and to an association of taxpayers commissioned strictly to the investigation and examination of all manlost burden under which the nation ner in which public tax moneys are spent. Also they expect to exn building up the enormous tax amine into the governmental overhead burden and today. to make their, combined and collective protests bear fruit. By united, lerican taxpayers have become such perennial good things action along lines, they see a gleam of hope for the future easy marks for the professional politicians, that political :s have apparently lost all sense of proportion and are as trend of governmental spending, the lightening of the tax load and in office on as mag-- I the elimination of political machine manipulation. They believe they ially bent upon maintaining themselves This attitude of political machines can do, collectively, what the individual taxpayers has failed to accoma scale as they ever were. lerent quality. It has been fostered and nutured for ages and plish. They believe they can make such an organization so powerful and so potential a factor in the cause of sane and economical spendlly reached such grand proportions that only the combined The con-;- s ing of public funds that the entire system, the fruits of many years jified action of the taxpayers, will serve to check it. may be entirely changed to a simspending of public moneys seems to have become a lost art ; of political machine domination, ple form of public service, based upon the greatest good for the larently, no matter how good a citizen is elected to office, no what his personal ideas may be in regard to public efficiency greatest number, and not essentially, upon the building up of dominant political machines. omy, he finds that he is merely the tool of the political ma-It will be an interesting and possibly a most enlightening event, helped place him in office and that he must conform to its in public affairs, should the taxpayers take it upon themselves mandate or suffer political ostracism, a direct, rather than a passive, part in government. It will x case in Utah indicates clearly that the taxing units of the mean more to the future trend of government and the spending of flinty and city have failed to give the taxpayers that measure or any other fanciful, to which they looked forward and to which many believe they public funds, than a referendum or a recall, into law, to deal with the situaitled under existing economic conditions. Hence the average legislative check that might be made time in ages the men who carry in Utah is today loudly clamoring for some manner of relief tion. It will mean that for the first e factions have even gone so far as to form loosely jointed the load, who pay the salaries and all the other bills incident to govitions to ernment, have come at last within the mystic circle and propose, to place their grievances before the public. M apparent that the majority of the taxpayers are not appre-- 5 take a hand in what is going on. of the fact Arid if the taxpayers fail to organize, to appoint investigating that the conditions they are clamoring against are to maintain a solid front against the increasing burdens natural products of many years of machine government ; that committees, of governmental expense, they may rest assured that political macentered in the growth and expansion of machine politics and will take it as a omen that the same old form of public sub- -, long as these party machines are maintained by public con-s- o chines servance to pet forms of kiting overhead charges and building Tip long will they have to pay for their upkeep. lr is still in public favor and they will proplan of popular government is predicated on the good will of gigantic political wheels, krs and, to make the taxpayers pay the bills. naturally, the voters are held to be the taxpayers. The ceed, as heretofore, istory of Party organizations to select good men to office are right and government indicates that the taxpayers have never anywhere in their demands for lower taxes and less govern-- . necessary under our form of government. But the party organization should end at that specific line of demarkation where the candioverhead, as mere individuals. unaware are apparently They y have the dates cease to solicit votes and become public servants. The taxpaycombined forces of political to help keep their lawfully elected public servants rtects of political machines to combat. Members of party ers must organize in gigantic political machine which are ns L themselves, they become singularly blind to the niachi-- f from becoming mere cogs lifeblood of the state and nation and kiting governat make for enormous public overhead and sometimes the sapping the mental overhead charges to the seventh heaven. jstionable spending of public moneys. They are too prone to Political manipulation and to political expediency which Is directed THE RACIAL BLOC MENACE. towards maintaining political advantage. Thus cc themseives, unqualifiedly, in the hands of the manipulators menace to this counfloItlC,al machines, and if they must pay for the gigantic govern- Racial blocs are becoming an Ca has been created under this system, they have try. There are known to be large Teutonic societies functioning all selves to blame. over the nation, chiefly engaged in a systematic gathering of trade k'" taxPayers of Salt Lake and vicinity believe there information for the fatherland. This applies equally to Greek, X t0 ten the tax load. They pin their faith Balkan, Japanese and Italian blocs and the nationals of all other Euro- e of the American citizen to pay taxes in large amount proved his undoing. 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