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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Eluding postage In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, r six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ' 14.50 per year. 8ingle 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 City, Utah, under the Act of ; March 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 TAX BONDS FOR BONUS MONEY he soldiers 'bonus question has been a political football for 1 years past and the political teams apparently are going to a tie game of it during the present session of Congress. As cnvever, no one has come forward with a real business prop- l as to how the money can be raised without imposing an tax upon the people. President Coolidge is against the bonus s time because if such a measure, was put through it would t of the question to reduce, taxes. Instead, they would have materially increased in order to raise some $5,000,000,000. say that the bonus can be paid the soldiers without raising xes, but how is it to be done? That is what the people want ow It is easy to contract a debt, it is hard to pay a debt ut an extra income, and a contracted debt must be paid, s favor the bonus because it is said that so much money I in circulation all over the country would greatly stimulate ;ss. Most of the money would vbe spent during the first month le business men and merchants would secure a major portion m here is another angle to be considered for raising the bonus y. That is to put a special bonus tax upon all rty and bonds to raise the money, and the obligation could .id off within five years. We have billions of dollars in tax-- . onds. This money is lying idle and doing nothing for the Dpment of the country. A tax upon it would bring it back circulation. The question is whether the government could lly tax these bonds. There ought to be no property exempt taxation in this country. We have heard so much about this money for the soldiers. Everpbody is willing that the gov-eshould pay the bonus, but the people do not want to be fer it. It is a certainty that you cannot have one wtihout the . If the government pays the money to the soldiers, it must :t it from the people. The biggest drawback to the payment of the bonus is the nt high taxation. The Federal government has reduced its ion very extensively, but city, county and state taxes have continually soaring ever since the war began. It is a heavy in upon the people and this present burden is the greatest cle in the path of the bonus bill. People are demanding lower and it is up to the officials to give them relief or they neednt round for the next election. President Coolidge has felt the pulse of the people and he lot hesitate when he came out against the bonus at this time gh taxes. He goes further than that. The president recom-I- s to Congress that no more bonds be issued and all property be listed for taxation. Such procedure would d the taxes over all and materially reduce them. The people allying around Coolidge and are demanding of their congress-t- o support all tax reduction measures. non-taxab- 5 le nt . -- tax-rfre- c WETS ARE RATS. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Antisaloon League anti-we- ts the beavers. This is a says the wets are rats and the very strong statement to make and it is apparent that Mr. Wheeler has not given much thought to the prohibition question. In he first place, who are the drys? From general observation we have come to the conclusion that many good and honest citizens have been led to believe by reformers, agitators, itinerant speakers, paid agents, subscription agents, a few meddling preachers, and several million bootleggers we class the bootlegger with the dry because he will fight a wet platform that prohibition will correct all the moral evils of the nation. The officers of the drys collect huge sums of money with which they spread their propaganda and they rake some of our best citizens over the coals in the most shameful manner. People who do not agree with their system are called rats. They call themselves beavers, probably because they are so active and abusive in their propaganda. The beaver is a very wet animal. Wonder who is getting all this money that is being collected by the drays? Some people will do anything for gold. Judas betrayed Christ. Judas was probably a dry. According to the Holy Bible, Christ was a wet. He not only made wine but he drank it and he was called a wine bibber by his enemies, and he It is not what a man retaliated with the effective statement: puts into his mouth that hurts him, it is what comes out. We do not agree with Mr. Wheeler that a person is a rat because he may happen to take a drink. A large majority of the biggest men in the United States have taken a drink, and they were not and are not rats. It would be well for our government to investigate the heads of these propaganda bureaus to find out whether those people are Americans, or whether they are foreigners who have come into our midst for the purpose of creating trouble. The prohibition law was passed when over three million of our best citizens were in France. They were absolutely disfranchised as American citizens and were given no voice in our government. The final result may have been the same had they been here, but the fact remains that they were on the other side doing the fighting while the propagandists were doing the preaching here. We have prohibition in name only. It is a national law the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As such it ought to be obeyed. It is cosing he government millions of dollars to enforce it. The people appear to break the law at will. They do not seem to believe in it. People cannot understand, why they should become criminal by taking a drink. They believe the law interferes with their personal rights and liberties, and so violation of the law becomes easy. Large sums of our money go to foreign countries, for liquor.. Our local 'manufacturing boot- so-call- ed |
