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Show THE CITIZEN 4 This lonesome wail sounds dangerously like the famed Wilsonian slogan : He kept us out of war. . Looking backward to the late Democratic county convention of last week and taking into consideration the action of that convention in nominating five city employees at the behest of the city commission, it may not be inappropriate to surmise that though this may be a Democratic year, it also appears to be very much of a city comTaken together the two slogans spell a new advenmission year. ture in the administration of county affairs for Salt Lake City; the one is incomplete without the other. A Democratic year for the Democrats, when the character and personnel of the county ticket they present to bemuse and beguile the voters, is finally tabulated, can mean but one thing and that the placing of the political destinies of Salt Lake county in the hands of the big political bosses of the city commission. Tlfe interpentrating character of the fatuitous political fantasia affair which we must perenacted at that Democratic force refer to as the Democratic county convention, in order to place it clearly in the minds of the people, would perhaps be the more ridiculous were it not so obviously a bold attempt to saddle upon the taxpayers a most despicable system of dual political control. When the voters of the city pause to consider the fact that the city commission is responsible for kiting the city tax rate and that the system it has built up requires additional tax levies each year to meet the increasing overhead, they are not likely to look with favor upon this latest attempt to divide county political honors between the city commission and city employees. For the enlightenment of the voters The Citizen again enumerates the city employees given a place on the Democratic county ticket, and who have been and who will from now until election day, spend their time in seeking votes, rather than attend to their duties as paid workers in the employ of the municipality. They are as follows: For county attorney, A. W. Watson, now assistant city attorney ; for county clerk, W. J. Korth, now an employee of the city water department ; for county auditor, H. S. McCann, now clerk in the city court ; for county surveyor, R. E. L. Collier, now assistant city engineer; for county recorder, Miss Stella Connors, now a clerk in the city . wind-jammi- ng financial department. Unless the voters of Salt Lake approve of this contemplated city and dual manipulation of civic affairs, with its and county tie-u- p attendant promise of higher tax rates, reckless spending and city commission domination in county business, they must vote for the Republican county ticket in its entirety. Centralization of political power in both the affairs of the city and the county, is the evident intent of the sponsors of this Democratic county ticket. It was jammed through by a majority of convention delegates selected at the instance of the city political machine. It holds out untold possibilities for those who would fasten a most pernicious and damnable political system upon Salt Lake and its environs. Judging the future by the past the only possible therom of practical value in making such deduction it means another season of unrestricted and reckless Democratic spending of county funds, much like that which prevailed during the lamented period when the county went $600,000 to the bad, which gigantic debt was left as a leeacy to the Republican county administration. It means the reincarnation of several Boss Tweeds to initiate gang rule and to gag and stifle popular demand for economy in local government. The arrogance of manipulation and the gross defects of the city commission form of government have been pointed out by the Republican party and a change demanded. Why should any sane voter contribute to the scheme of those in command and thus help to consummate their smudge plan to gain additional political power and perquisites ? LIMIT THE TAX EATERS. Tax caters and tax beneficiaries are never satisfied. Here in Utah they will not desist from their nefarious business of attempting to foist new and devious ways of increasing the tax load, until they are given a solar plexus blow. Not satisfied with the present fo, number of boards and commissions with which to harass the and kit taxes to pay their salaries, they went on record, last ye as favoring a new fangled tax commission to investigate andpo out divergent ways and means to levy taxes. This commission lately been functioning at a cost of $5,000, appropriated as a coni gent fund for that purpose, in conjunction with an eastern profess college bred and trained, who has advised that about the only to increase the tax load is to enact a state income law and tl employ a host of political retainers to enforce it. There is a vague promise that in event an income tax is put ot other forms of taxation will be modified. The. Citizen recalls tl the last state legislature absolutely refused to nullify a state law t smelled to high heaven and it still languishes on the pages of compiled statutes. In event the income tax is foisted on the peo it will be but a repetition of the same sad story. A new way will have been found to create a larger stater enue and all the old style methods will be retained in event a ra day may come around threatening to swamp the prevailing politi system of all the traffic will bear. Utah voters this year will do well to protect their homes j their children by voting down all three of the proposed constitutio amendments. They will do far more toward a system of sane sti legislation by demanding that any law to tax them further than tl are now taxed, be first submitted to a referendum vote of all people. Too much legislation of such nature and of a quality tei ing to submerge the liberties of the people has been enacted by leg lative vote, without any consideration of the wishes of the vot in the premises, or without any attempt to arrive at a decision to what the voters think about it. Members of state legislative bodies are mere men and worn because of the p They are not essentially Gods or super-humation of public honor they are employed to fill. They are servant all the people, not of any one faction or sect. They must be judj by the measures they propose for enactment into law, as to whetl they are fir persons to represent a great commonwealth, or reverse. The last legislature strung the Indian Sign thwart the ambi blue dome of Utah in a manner that will not soon be forgotten, the incoming legislature take warning therefrom. In any event j people should demand of this new legislature a referendum law coJ ing all measures designed to either kite the tax load or which n affect their inalienable rights as free American citizens. ( ns I e k in m n tl 1 1 ol m at ai Kti F es m fll :le se id e ur THE NEAR EAST AND THE LEAGUE. ur Genial gentlemen of the American press, still bemused by United States toE preachments of those who would sell out-thus pean powers and predatory Asiatic empires, are now telling the Greek debacle in the Near East war theatre, is the direct re of our having failed to sign the league of nations pact. There would have been no Near East conflict had vc done e e could t according to these authorities. How the United States to a prevented the fight is a mystery that must remain unsolved us but the league protagonists. In any event all we could have would have been to send a mighty fleet to patrol the high seas land a million or more men in the Balkan states to police the hot-b- e ritory and keep the raving maniacal peoples of these strife from shooting each other up. This would have insured emoln petual war conditions in America with all the resultant to the war profiteers, a thing which became so scandalous Democratic control of national affairs, and which the protag011 of the Wilsonian league hoped might be fastened upon hc a basic law. The inevitable and recent massacre of Christians with arJ11( munitions furnished by the French, and the less recent slangy Mohammcndans by arms and munitions of the British, u bers of .the league of nations, arc but vivid examples of the n! ui it- - H( 1 uat11111 vi iic es e ei id irii ith |