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Show ... - Published Every. Saturday ..... BY G00DWINV8 WEEKLY PUBLT8HINd CO., INC. m A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ;:. ?l V ' Including postage in the United .States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, i'i$1.50 for six months.' Subscriptions to all foreign 'countries within the. Postal ) j Union, $4.50 per year. I 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Registered Letter, Payments, should be jnade ' by . Check, Money Order or r to .The Citizen. payable V f communications all Citizen. to The Address second-class Entered as matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake under Act of. the March 3, 1879. City, Utah, Ness Bldg.1 '' Salt Lake City, Utah 1 Phone Wasatch 5409 - , . 1, 4 : p ; i 311-12-- i . V f V. f" . .. . r 13 . . -- . : . . r ,4 . . ''4 i BE NO BARRIER ' .. Utah a trailer among the western states instead of a leader? yhat screened force is there which keeps the people in a sort of stupified humor ana lethargy? Are we to continue on,- and on, and on? Is Utah only to be a place of temples and worship, where there is no room for factory and industrial expansion? Are of this state to be held only for the fortunate feyv the who happen to live here? Are there some envious persons among us who fear for their .financial positions and their social positions if the world at large were invited to partake of our bounteous resources, our delightful climate arid our beautiful and artistic scenic surround Why is - sGenic-wonder- s . -- ings ? A fence could be built around Utah and the people could live in luxury without .importing anything to eat or wear. We have gold and silver to make our gods from. We have iron for construction work and immense coal fields for fire and furnace. As producers of grain and farm products we are unexcelled and our fruit is of the most luscious and fine flavor, and yet with all this untold wealth of resources we neither sjpin, toil or weave and we act as If were in a trance. What we need in this state is a boosters club. An organization that does not talk, but that does things. What we need is a magician to gather us together, snap his fingers and bring us out of the trance, presto-chang- o. Everyone you meet on the street Has a discouraged lopk and appears as if he or they have lost their best friend. It is reallp comical when one goes down the street and tries to talk business. Everyi body seems to have lost confidence. Anyone that cannot make a living in Utah has a very slim chance in any other state in the Union, or for that matter any other country. This city is. the natural distributing point of the intermountain region and any- firm which will come here to do business on an extensive scale can make. a go.of it. So. far we have allowed the Pacific coast cities and Denver and points east of Denver to handle trade which rightfully belongs to this city and to Utah. If it belongs to us, why dont we take it? That is the big question. The usual answer to it is that the dominant church rules things here and outsiders cannot get by. That condition may have existed in the past and the church would like to camouflage the present in order to hold its power, but church influence would have little bearing if the people only realized that all they had to do was to come out of their stupor. ;What we want here arc business men who do not care what religion one belongs to. Business requires experts in their lines, andt n ones beliefs as to religion or social clubs is their right which no. man should questions What we want here are office holders who do not require perriiits or bishops to secure emhere is an equal opportunity for every ployment. What. we wanty i, t j man, woman and child living within the borders of the state. And. we should have a boosters club that would see that the rights of the people were respected and that no mans religion should be a ques . - God-give- fronT-churche- s, , -- i tion as to his social standing or the attainment of a position. But for the battle of 'Tours where Charlemagne defeated the Saracens we would all today be Mohammedans. After all, our beliefs have been and7 are controlled to a great extent by our fathers, and not because ariy one religion is the best religion. That is why there should be no question of religion. It has not been" So very long ago when a body of business men called upon a governor of our state to recommend a certain applicant for a political position. The answer came: Gentlemen, you know that I am a Mormon. Did you ever think that we, this great state of Utah" should ever elect; a man to the highest office in the gift of the people, who questioned the religious belief of a worthy person wjio only desired to go to work and who was qualified in every way-excehis religion., The time has arrived, when the young Mormon is just as adverse to bringing religion into business and gentile and politics as is- the r , f all are praying that such practice will be stopped and that pepple can work side by side regardless of their religious belief. When such a time arrives, the success of this state will be assured in a business way. The people are ready for this, reform as they conclusively proved at 2l citizens meeting which was called to halt freak legislation, arid the people are ready for any move which will bring people and business to this city and state. The coming of the Columbia Steel company has started the ball direction. Several other firms have . already signi- rolling in the right i fied their intention of locating in this state and now that we have made such a splendid start the good work should be kept up and it will not' be long before we will have the best state in the entire west. Keep your religion out. of business and politics and we will be on the right road. There may be a few' who object to such methods, but let us eliminate that few who would hold tts back from putting our shoulders to the wheel of progress. ... pt p - , MOSQUITOES. The mosquito bill is an innocent looking little animal and some of us are wondering just where we are going to get off. If we allow the mosquito to remain unchecked as it is now, we get stung, but how much are we going to be stung to get rid of this pest? In reading over the law we find that hundreds of thousands of dollars can be spent very easily if all the outlined plans materialize, and-ocourse, as usual, the property owner is expected to pay an additional tax. Of course the beginning of the supervision is going to be made by a board of trustees who will work without pay. Ilow long will that last? There are a great many citizens who are always willing to donate their faithful services for the benefit of a community, but when a person is not paid for such work he may not always fee present when needed, and the best of service cannot be had under such f |