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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage In the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 9 Union, $4.50 per year. Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. Act of City, Utah, under the Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 SENATOR SMOOT COMES HOME Senator Reed Smoot has been able to take a few days rest from people down to serfdom. Strict regulation in all matters is necessary his strenuous labors at Washington and is visiting with friends which tends to provide comfort and well being for a community and in his home state. a just administration of all public affairs. Common sense in law Like many other senators, Smoot went to Europe to check up brings happiness to all people who live under such law. When peron certain conditions and he was glad to get. back to the good old sonal liberties are restricted then disrespect is shown for the law U. S. A. Things were not as they should be across the pond and and crime increases as a natural result. Statistics show that crime he found the different peoples fighting and hating each other instead is increasing faster in the United States than the population and of trying to come to amiable terms. The situation is very serious Cluff is one of the first public men to come out boldly to criticise and Europe is no place for Americans at the present time. Money the system and to suggest a remedy. Any one who tries to legislate has no value, although he did find that the people had turned to a man to heaven stares failure in the face. Such things arc only agricultural pursuits and were able to feed themselves without aid accomplished through conversion. If Mr. Cluffs ideas were followed up and we would elect men from the outside. If our farmers are looking for a European market they will be disappointed. Then again what farmer will sell for the next ten years to repeal all selfish laws such as controlling his products for the prevailing European currency? They cannot the personal liberties of the people, and the laws interference in get gold, for there is none to give. German marks today are business, we would have a better country and a more satisfied peoworth ten cents per million. Any one who wishes to become a ple, with the result that crime would lie greatly reduced. can do so by purchasing a dollars worth of marks CRITICISM. at the present rate of exchange. Senator Smoot has great confidence in President Coolidge and A. C. Rees has now become a critic. At a recent luncheon atlooks for many big things to be accomplished within the next year for the benefit of the people. Several months ago the senator was tended by Rotary club members, he said: The communistic tenof the opinion that taxes could not be reduced, but the way the dency of the times is shown by the election of Magnus Johnson tariff has worked out financially, there is a possibility to still farther as United States Senator from Minnesota. Thinking people of the reduce federal taxes. If the states, counties and cities would fall in nation should awaken to the danger of radicalism in America. The Citizen was not for Magnus. We were for the defeated line with the federal reduction, it would not be long before the entire country would enjoy the greatest prosperity in the history of fellow who polled a rather heavy vote. However, we have to admit the country. Manufactures in the east arc going at full blast and that Johnson is a prosperous farmer and up to the present time or the mines in the west are booming as they never have before, llig since his election, he has done nothing radical and appears to be to the crops arc coining in because of a perfect season for them and there substantial timber. Of course he may pay more attention is every indication that Americans can Jje proud of the fact that they farmer and laboring man than the ordinary United States Senator live here instead of across the Atlantic where jealousy and strife should. Radicals as a rule are not prosperous and they try to live without working. They believe in a division of wealth. JohnJ) predominate. son has made a success of farming, and now that he is elected United States Senator he may fool such men as Mr. Rees. CLUFF'S WARNING. multi-millionai- re Harvey II. Cluff, attorney general of Utah, struck the keynote of the people jvhen he said at a recent meeting of the attorney generals in Minnesota, that what the people needed most at the present time was the repeal of many of the radical laws which have been enacted, especially during the last decade. No man has a better opportunity to study the situation than a professional attorney and Cluff has given the matter unusual attention. He claims that our lawmakers pay too much attention to reformers and radicals and as a result legislation is enacted in conflict with the personal liberties of the people. Our attorney general made the most convincing talk at the convention and the entire nation has taken up the cue and no doubt much good will result therefrom. Men are elected to cfffice to look after the interests of the people and not to make laws to chain the Magnus, Johnsons given name, is the Latin word for great. Who knows but what some prophet suggested the name, having received a revelation that Johnson was to become a great man. According to the Bible, such things have happened before why not again? Tic Magnus was a Wisconsin lumberjack for two years. swung an ax in the woods, pitched slabs and saved his money. But there was the lure of cheap land beyond, and with $400 in his in pocket he set out for western Minnesota in 1893 and stopped Meeker county, where lie bought his first forty acres of land and became a farmer. In that section at that time there was not much land open to cultivation. Magnus had to clear the heavy timber off before he could raise crops, and for the next sixteen years he was busy slashing down the forest and adding to his tillable land acre by acre. Magnus cut cordwood and hauled it fourteen miles by |