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Show THE CITIZEN WOMEN SHOULD JOIN A PARTY. :cr months. With such a portentious local war on its hands, it is not to be wondered at that both coal prices and labor costs should go back to the war level. The dear public, whoever they are as recently apostrophized by an official of one of the biggest mining companies of the state, will now enjoy the twin privilege of paying a huge sum for coal mine protection and a kited price for the winters coal supply. t,p women attained suffrage, it was the advice of Mrs. Catt should go into the party of their choice and be active in it, jjjey eP otherwise what was the use of an influence on its policies They had indirect influence before, and if they were Ijallot? an outside of the parties, they might as well not have the vote. uy iep individuals ,they have a certain influence not very much re more than one hundred million people but, joining with ilf in the same direction they are going, they are a force rs moving is not only the sum of the force of the individuals in it, but Rep a certain additional momentum of its own. 2Sts 0up gains of the bundle of sticks ? dv Do you remember the Roman story alone but, bound together, they could not as easy to break one )un en ICC( clubs discovered long ago that if one individual should rest to the mayor that she would like a drinking fountain on the ler, she would be ignored, but if the club appointed a committee iterview him on the subject, it would bring results. So it is with- a political party. Speaking for many, its voice is for erful. If the party is in authority, its voice is political party in power is, for the time being, the. government. You belong either to the governing class or the governed class. since the ballot is open to every adult citizen.. take your choice told of Roosevelt when a youth, that he suggested one evening of the ward politicians. Certain of his family ig to a meeting onstrated with him, saying, They are a low class of persons, on Then, replied the young Roose- keepers and ignorant men. it is all the more necessary that I go. They are the governing for. they are controlling politics. We who stay away permit to govern. I intend to belong to the governing class. The other day in an immense national park, it was noticed there no pedestrians, although walking was not forbidden, but afoot would never get very far on the long stretched of winding road. h the immense complexities and problems of our great country, man effort is negligible. To get anywhere they must annex nselves to modern, organized methods. That is a very easy thing Jo. There is nothing exclusive about a political party. On llic Womens ats - of all-power- ISS1 he ie c ere irei to 'v T1 ter i inds ace of IS T ler , s e , of it is continually bidding lor workers. At this period, the Republican party is especially amenable to efforts of women. Any earnest woman who wants to make her ut of real use for the betterment of her home, her community and trary TP visi Dine and who has a high altrustic purpose to serve her gen-iowill find a responsive field for her activities in the Republican itp ?th tied and i of :itiz ilei suit itee tes fact ice ! let or zea ballot to women. It has states and nation. It nomi-- d elected the two only women who have thus far been mem-- 5 The Republican party gave the placed women in office in towns, )y. the congress. present campaign, it has bn its tickets, in localities where is a chance of election, more women candidates than all the er parties put together. Other parties have nominated women candidates where there is possible chance of election ; that is no compliment to the sex, but ler shifting on them something which nobody wants. If any woman wishes to accomplish anything politically, she lds a splendid chance of doing it in the Republican party much )er than anywhere else. In the ;alat 1 WAR PRICES FOR COAL. ea ten 5 ad the :li 5 be iivti inevitable has happened coal has gone back to the war Salt Lake consumers who have not already placed their orders their coal that bins filled, will be compelled to pay the profiteering prevailed during 1919 and 1920. This action on the part le coal producers is the natural result of the improptu war staged arbon county when a gang of armed aliens took complete charge aairs and placed armed patrols along the highways and with-shdistance of the. mines. This insurrection was only suc-ui- y checked by the state militia which was on duty nearly three J ot tha' nd' Women have been voting nationally for nearly three years. They have participated in the election of the president and the congress and have shown keen interest in the lesser but still important contests for local offices in their immediate communities. Just what benefits have been derived by the government as a result of practically doubling the nations electorate ? of the Republican. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, National Executive Committee, who has worked with both men and women in public affairs for many years, summed up the effect of. women in politics when she said : The new woman voter is carrying out her political convictions with the same kind of courage with which the female, protects, her young. She knows what is right in her own soul and does not easily change her standards. Women are primarily interested and are deeply concerned in the effect which politics has on the future manhood and womanhood of this country. Women are interested in the conservation of life. They care for the things which affect their homes and their children. Mrs. Upton voices the thoughts of men and women who have intelligently studied the results of womens participation in government. Women carry the thought of what is best for the holmes of the nation with them when they go to the polls. Consequently they are proving that they are a humanizing factor in politics. vice-chairm- an ..... In selecting a political party to affiliate with this fall the voters should take into consideration the very evident fact, that if a party runs to fiat money. prosperity for forforeign entanglements, eign workers, general uplift for everybody except the home folks, and it is elevated to power, such fantastic and demagogical doctrines are fastened upon the people and become the policies of the nation. Much has been written about eliminating the rattle in automobiles. Perhaps it would be advisable to formulate some plan to take the rattle out of the brains of the sportive young drivers of gas bugs and jitney buses. This fraternity is making the populace step lively, especially at street crossings. Those not in active training are very apt to be run down and either killed or severely and caper like a cracked. Aged pedestrians, unless able to side-ste- p bucking broncho, should keep away from street crossings. Buy it abroad is the motto of the Democrats in congress, who oppose the enactment of a protective tariff. This policy is a sure and certain precursor of industrial stagnation at home, if by any chance it should become effective. , Candidate Cox is making about as fine an impression on the gullible English as are some of our idealistic preachers, who are telling them that America is ripe for closer political relations with manner has promised to give the Mother land. Cox in his more than she asks for when he becomes president. Perhaps England the vote in the senate to finance the soldiers bonus bill from interest payments on our foreign debts will serve to disabuse the minds of the European cancellationists and to place Cox in his true light as a false prophet. Ex-Presiden- Ing r n, nation; i :s ful ii . , WOMEN IN POLITICS. foken. lat 5 tial free-hand- ed The tentative settlement of the coal strike is most gratifying, but what the country needs is a solution of the coal problem, including the price to the consumer. |