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Show $ THE CITIZEN TAX EXEMPT BONDS. ruin. To relieve the situation it facing agriculture ost, and furnished it with a million-voivin- g Finance Corporation ch, fund to loan the farmer in his emergency., It iect tariff, which stopped the flood of jjjC farmers' emergency rkj distress. It increased that was contributing to agricultural : Federal farm loan bank in the sum of $25,000,000. ds of the cons result was the revival of agriculture, which brought the d to manufactured products of ffho purchases 40 per cent of the into the market, thus giving employment to idle aitry, again try, re-V- ar und Tl ly enacted i a permanent tariff, which insures industry and agri-alik- of-thi- s non-availab- e protection from destructive foreign competition and at a good wage, rkJngman steady employment ther enacted the Sweet law, which created the Veterans' Bureau, the men with dating all government agencies dealing sych d disabled war veterans. It Stating the work of relieving iff, for the use of that bureau more money than was appro-fo- r del debt any other purpose except payment of the public icon terest thereon. tect found the country officially in a state of war with Germany y v( and by a joint resolution peace tepn iese two nations. enacted that great piece of humanitarian legislation asked by her the wel-- i men of the country, the maternity act, to safeguard dem infancy and maternity. ryo to place our foreign loans on me created a refunding commission conditions for their payment, sol icsslike basis and formulate associa-nhic- h authorized the formation of thei will be of mutual benefit to the producer of food and y vi consumer. It enacted the packers and stockyards act for the be ck interests, and the grain futures act for the farmer. th Act to facil-fi- e promote our foreign trade it amended the Edge copl t h organization of corporations engaging in export business, financial sys-n- d provided for the reorganization of the Philippine to an extension of Philippine credit in order to save the islands of Ai bankruptcy, whch they were facing as a result of eight years ament under the Democratic regime. pre areas in our own came to the relief of drouth-stricke- n me; the time of payment due on irrigation and reclama-roject- s, ty granted liberal aid for public roads, extended relief to millions of Russia, reorganized the Indian Bureau, ip tarving thened the enforcement of the Federal prohibition amend-provide- d timi is for the creation of more Federal courts in order to e the ut congestion of business and expedite justice, and created mission to investigate the coal industry, tytal addition, the United States Senate in less than thirty days ratihe on treaties formulated at the Arms conference, which moved forld toward and peace and committed the nations to a reduction 'al armament and a' a consequent reduction in taxation. Ir. oui President, I could stand here for one sold hour, and rehearse has been cai accomplished by this administration, and I say, of doubt, that no legislature that ever met has passed toy beneficial laws as has the present Congress under this admin-lio1, m ex-servi- i Those who heard Senator Smoot excoriate the practice of the nation, in submerging their great fortunes in wealthy men tax exempt bonds, at the Orpheum, will recall that he pictured a virtual upheaval in government, unless such forms of bonds be made C ' , ce ap-te- le. There is only one way in which to check this mad rush to sink the wealth of the nation in tax exempt bonds, and that is by passing another constitutional amendment. Here is a need for a really conr basic law, which will help preserve its structive amendment integrity in the future years. So far afield have we travelled in permitting our civilization to be flooded by a mass of incompetent peoples ; so far astray have we fluttered in this business of saddling the tax load on the poorer classes, the worker and the tiller of the , soil, that a debacle faces us, if we do not halt the man. of wealth in his desire to place! his teeming millions beyond the reach of the to-ou- i . . . tax collector. re-establis- hed utro-Hunga- ry, . 1 : d coun-stend- ed - Senator Smoot can do no greater service to mankind than to continue to sound his timely warning anent tax exempt bonds. And the city of Salt Lake has floated millions in tax exempt securities. Think it over. LETS SAVE AMERICA. The safety of society demands that some sane measures be passed and wise methods adopted and set up to control the ramifications of the ilicit booze business, now become a national disgrace. From being merely a localized bootlegging business, it has developed into a gigantic organization, of nation-wid- e scope and activities. It involves more capital than the giant movie picture industry and numbers a personnel equally as numerous. It is the of plaything of thousands of wealthy Americans and the rs more than half of our alien population and, perhaps, of all foreign born citizens. The bootleg ring recognizes no law. Its ramifications extend from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico, in the United States, while this same gang has set up gigantic agencies in many foreign lands where its illicit supply is hatched. America is spending millions of dollars in trying to regulate this underground liquor traffic, but it increases in inverse ratio to the attempt being made to suppress it. life-wo- rk three-quarte- n ,1 with-questi- on n. Al Senator Caraway says that cussing the United States is the chief pastime of all Europe. Well, perhaps it is far better that they cuss us for a spell because we failed to enter their league of nations trap, than that we should cuss them for having to pull all their chestnuts out of the fire, finance their wars and furnish the canon fodder to boot, had we accepted their proffer of armed partnership. It was an aggravated case of the spider and the fly; but the fly refused to become entangled in this fine spun foreign web of perpetual contention and strife hence the desire to cuss. extent to which the late Democratic tariff per-- d wool to invade this countrys markets, and thereby alarming atii foreign tiv en-o- ur western sheep growing industry, is partially accounted late computation from Washington, wherein it is shown that lresent stock of wool, held jointly by manufacturers and dealers, 54.8 per cent foreign and 45.2 per cent domestic. Another year r the Underwood tariff and the sheep ranges of the west would me a 5 is barren of stock. (ft a! itii f i I . S 1 f e offense committed by Fred C. Slater, American consul castle, England, and Vice Consul Russell M. Brooks, whose Jfurs were cancelled by the British government, was to place ates shipping board circulars in vised passports, or to advise cans to patronize American ships. Who won the war, anyway , only Apparently the one great misfortune that could befall the protagonist of reform, is to have his reform notions succeed and thus throw him out of a job. A town is judged by its outward appearance, I I just as a man is often judged. Squat and stunted buildings have no place in modern American cities ; a backward town means backward inhabitants. Salt Lake is casting off her sheaths of backwardness; she is taking on: the outward appearances of a thriving community of live citizens. The psychology of the hour is against any idea of a town. one-man-ca- rv About the only thing in this life that the average man is sure of is, that, no matter who is in office, taxes will still be collected. 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