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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. 8lngle 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 postofflce at Salt Lake March 3, 1879. of Act the under Utah, City, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 8alt Lake City, Utah . 311-12-- 13 AMERICAN PARTY PRINCIPLES A great deal of speculation is going on as to what the American party can do for this city if elected at the coming municipal election, and nearly everybody appears to be talking politics at the present time. We all know that Salt Lake and Utah have received a black eye on the outside, especially through the passage of an bill and the election of Ben R. Harries by the Ministerial associaiton and ithe Mormon church officials last year. Then many of those who leave the city and the state advertise on the outside that they left because of too much religion in business and politics, and so the crusade goes on day and night against this city and state, and there is no denying the fact that all this has ijured us. Chairman H.C. Allen says that the American party has been organized ito correct this evil. He says that the American party has no fight to make against any mans religion, because in this country every individual may believe as they please and worship as they please. However, Chairman Allen draws the line there and emphatically states that the American party is in the field to separate church and state in business and politics, and he inIn our party vites the Mormon people to help him in this fight. no mans religion will be questioned. The fight will be for lower taxation as well and if the American candidates are elected they are pledged to immediately institute business methods in municipal administration with a view of cutting the present high taxation. In a statement issued by Joseph E. Galigher, he says: I did not seek nomination. I was urged to become a candidate by a large number of Salt Lake citizens. Naturally, I felt honored, and now that I am into it I intend to carry through, never losing sight of the principles to which I am pledged in placing my name before the public. Salt Lake City has a destiny to fulfill. This community, centering the heart of a great intermountain empire with no city of appreciable size for more than 700 miles in any direction, cannot help but become a great metropolis through which the wealth of this region will pour out to the w'orld. But this development may be retarded by conditions which, if alarming at home, appear as a serious menace to the industrial and financial minds of distant states who would otherwise furnish the skill and the means for immediate exploitation of our unlimited resources. As I see it, there are two things which positively must be accomplished before we can go forward as 'we should. We must remove eevry vestige of ecclesiastical interference with our administration of public affairs and return to the absolute severance of church and state, which is an essential principle bn which our 2ition and our state is founded.' Not doing this results in the citizens of our sister states looking upon us with suspicion. Equally essential is the necessity for economy in government. During the past few years the tax rate of this city has nearly doubled. A considerable portion of this levy has been ostensibly anti-cigare- tte . high-mind- ed . . to provide a sinking fund for the retirement of bonds issued in the first years of this century. d of one million dollars is needed annually Nearly to take up the bonded debt of this, city and such an amount has been collected. But what has become of this fund since its preone-thir- tended estblishment in 1920? The board of city commissioners has broken faith with the people, violated the implied contract and spent the money in such, manner and through such channels as make its final destination hard to trace. Only a pittance of this fund has gone to retire bonds and for the balance of these ancient issues bearing 4 per cent, our present administration has reissued at a considerably higher interest rate further bonds to .patch up their wastage of the sinking fund, thereby pyramiding the obligations we will have to meet within a very few years. I have pledged myself to the correction of these two major causes and to effect that correction without malice, enmity or hatred toward any man or any .group of men, looking only to the welfare and progress of our city. I will not carry into public office any antagonisms of my personal or business life, and will not know nor care whether a citizen is Mormon, Catholic, Gentile, union or nonunion, but will treat the mayoralty as the sacred trust of all the people. FORCE ESSENTIAL. Law 'without force behind it is useless. To enforce law, cities employ police, states employ the militia, and the government employs soldiers and the navy. This is not done to cater to some ones fancy; it is a public necessity. When the 'judge passes sentence upon the criminal 'the police stand at his side with their clubs to subdue the culprit and take him to jail. Without the police, the judges words would pass by the law violator like the wind and the judge would have to he superior in muscular strength in order to enforce the prescribed penalty. It is said the pen is mightier than the svord, but the sword settles ail disputes as in the case of the world war the pen only records the historic facts. The pen can censure and oft times, bring about harmony, but in a real anger contest it is of little or no consequence. Therefore, if the League of Nations has no force behind it. of what material aid or good can it be to mankind? If the much-talked-- of world court has no force behind it, what can it accom- plish? In an editorial published in the Salt Lake Tribune of September 6 we read in part the following: If Signor Mussolini continues to defy the League of Nations and rejects the Leagues authority to pass on the dispute with Greece, what happens? The League is empowered to take sane- |