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Show THE CITIZEN 4 of Lehi and those of his particular class and affinity, in mind he of cigarette law fame or Citizens of Utah who feel called upon to express an opinion on the proposed constitutional amendments to be voted upon this fall, are invited to send short signed contributions to The Citizens. Regardless of whether they meet with the views of the editor or are diametrically opposed thereto, they will be published, with the sole idea of educating the people in respect to their duties and responsibilities in state election. ill-fam- e. TARIFF MAIN ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN. Since befuddled democracy has no other issue on which to go before the people of the nation this fall, it has elected to make the tariff an issue and has begun to spread false and misleading argu- i i i i i i co-operati- i i I I i i ments regarding the protection of home industry and the farmer and worker over the land in the same manner characteristic of our army of foreign propagandists and with their hearty For months lately the Democratic press, following the lead of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic demagogues and Democratic members of congress, have been claiming that the emergency tariff enacted by the Republican congress in May, 1921, is a gold brick insofar as the American farmer is concerned. This charge has been repeated so often that its constant reiteration has carried conviction in some quarters where the facts were not known. The farmer and livestock grower have not been deceived by this campaign of Democratic misrepresentation because they know what the beneficial effects of the emergency tariff have actually been. The best evidence that the emergency tariff has provn all things else but a gold brick to the agricultural sections of the country lies in the fact that no Democratic representative of any agricultural district has made an effort to have the law repealed which would be a natural consequence were it ineffective as a protective measure to farming interests. Democratic critics of the tariff have based all their charges of its ineffectiveness upon the fact that since it became a law prices of grain and of livestock have declined in the United States. In stressing this point and using it as alleged proof of the failure of the emergency law, their spellbinders, such as Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, s. and Senator Reed, of Utah, have been guilty of stating only Had these critics of the emergency tariff been honest they would have given the range of prices of grain and livestock not only in this country, but in Canada and in other primary markets of the world. They did not do this, nor will they do so. The reason is at once evident from an inspection of the market quotations in Winnipeg, Toronto, Liverpool, Buenos Aires and other primary markets for grain and livestock. Market quotations the world over for grain and livestock since May, .1921, show that prices for all kinds of agricultural products have declined. The significant thing in this connection is that prices for farm products in the United States have declined far less than' prices for similar products in any other nation in the world where there is a market for grain and livestock. Defeated in their every effort to show that the emergency tariff has not benefited farm prices, some Democratic publicity mediums and some Democratic members of congress endeavor to extricate themselves by charging that inasmuch as the tariff did increase farm prices it also increased the cost of living to the city consumer. Unfortunately for the success of the Democratic party this fall and reputation of its speakers for truth and veracity, this statement may be proven as false as the charge that the emergency tariff has nc benefitted the farmer. A report' issued by the United States Department of Labor, June, 1922, gives the average retail prices in the United States as of April 15, 1921, and March T5, 1922. 'This table shows that notwithstanding the emergency tariff benefitted the grower of livestock, the price of steak on March 15, 1922, was nine per cent less than it was April 15, 1921, which was a month before the emergency tariff went into effect and which was at a time when under the Underwood free trade law both livestock and fresh beef were being im ' on. half-truth- . ported into this country free of duty. Round steak showed a decrf of 12 per cent, rib roast of 10 per cent, plate beef of 16 per cent p per cent and bacon 11 per cent. Notwithstanding the protective emergency tariff raised the p of butter to the American producer, the retail price of butter, acc( ing to the labor department, dropped 19 per cent. Notwithstam the emergency tariff benefitted the grain grower, the labor dep ments report shows a decrease in the price of bread of 16 per c in the price of flour 10 per cent, in the price of wheat cereal f 13 per cent and corn cereal food 21 per cent. In brief, the emergency or farmers tariff enacted by the Rep lican congress in May, 1921, benefitted the agricultural interests the country and at the same time did not prevent a steady and v material decrease in the retail price of food throughout the coun chops 11 . FORGOTTEN ISLANDS. A comparatively few Americans will no doubt recall that United States purchased of Denmark in 1917, for the munificent of $25,000,000, the Virginia Islands, which include an aera of square miles and a population estimated at 26,051. While Uncle Sam bought the islands outright, he did not assi to have bought the people and under the terms of purchase, he it optional with the islanders as to whether they would become zens of the United States or remain subjects of Denmark. After c summating the deal for the islands the transaction was apparei promptly forgotten. Recently the facts of the purchase was brought home to Washington legislators in rather a rude and improptu manner, w a delegation of three from the neglected islands called at the WlJ House and demanded a conference, at which they hope to center attention of this country in the direction of its forgotten lands. U. S. it was assumed at the time of purchase, acquired the island: keep them from falling into the maw of Germany. We place naval officer in charge and then seem to have left the people of island to shift pretty much on their lonely. The delegates have come to us asking for a hearing insist that being under Stars and Stripes is a hardship instead of a privilege. The original act of purchase provided that all residents of islands would become citizens of the United States, unless they p lically recorded their wish to remain Danish subjects. No prods were made for natives of the islands who had previously come continental United States, or removed to other islands in the Indies. They remain citizens of Denmark under the present th gram, if they are citizens of any country, which some among seem to doubt. They want this question of citizenship settled that those who. wish to become citizens of the United States i have that privilege accorded them. The political troubles of the islands and lack of known citiz ship on the part of the wanderers, are not causing the people as much trouble as their economic difficulties, largely the result extending to them the provisions and mandates of the eightee amendment. Previous to their acquisition by the United States manufed people of the Virginia Islands were among the foremost ers of bay rum. That industry has been practically killed since the k coming of the prohibition edict which is being enforced to or against all industries, either in the mainland of this nation league island possessions, through the efforts of an anti-salowho has surrounded himself with an army of deputies at fine and who naturally follow the lines of least resistance in enforcing am tli liquor laws. They watch the alcohol using industries fratcn eyes, thus hampering legitimate .trade, while the bootleg is left practically unmolested. Occasional raides on the illegitimate liquor business oM ' of a million gallon illic bf tion, or the periodical rounding-u- p nie 15 cache, does not indicate at all that the bootlegging to suppressed. Rather is it an evidence of the gigantic extent this illicit business has grown under the provisions of a an so generally disregarded by a majority of the citizenry of a ginally dedicated to personal freedom. W p on C3 vh . : |