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Show THE CITIZEN 4 allege that there has been considerable graft in our local government. If there has been, let us have the facts and let the courts take their course; if the rumors are false, those who are circulating these reports should be held for their malicious talk. During the past six or seven years several of our public servants have stole embezzled money belonging to the city, county and state, but the prosecutions and sentences were of a very mild nature they were such hardgood 'boys and they should not be allowed to mingle with the ened criminals at the penitentiary. A poor man outside of the political ring would have been given life for the same offense. After all, what is said in behalf of justice, there apears to be a very material difference as to who does the stealing and the amount that is taken. Social standing and money should never be a bar to prison. We are taught that the law plays no favorites. Then let it work that way. HARRIES RETAINS OFFICE. Sheriff Ben. R. Harries will hold his office. Judge McCrea stands on supreme court decision on the ruling that the case is strictly one of equity and not an election contest. We may now expect to find our churches in politics more than ever. The Constitution of the United States provides that there shall be absolute separation of church and state; the Constitution of Utah has a special provision on religion and state which was one of the conditions to admit Utah to statehood. There is no question in the minds of the people as to how Sheriff Harries was elected and by what influence, and it has caused a great deal of unpleasant talk among the people and the organization of the American party, which is in the field to fight church influence. Sheriff Harries was backed by the Mormon church and the Ministerial Association as an independent candidate. If elected he promised to clean up the bootleggers and gamblers of this city and county. PRICE RAISING. Gasoline and butter appear to have found favor among the manipulators and the price of both are being boosted because what? We find more and cheaper hay in the market than ever before. The price-fixemay consent to add a slight margin to the cream purchased, from the farmer as an excuse for a big advance in the price of butter, but 55 cents is too much for any working man to pay for a pound of butter. It just means that a working man with a large family does not eat butter regularly. . In the case of gasoline, the price was knocked down towards the end of the tourist season last fall. It is nov being boosted to big profits for the opening of the season and the price will hold again during the busy season. Of course the public is told that it is a case of supply and demand, but that rule does not work out satisfactorily at this time of the year when travel is at its lowest, and many cars are in winter storage and others in repair shops being overhauled, getting them ready for use when the motoring rs season opens. Gasoline is manufactured in this city, but the top price is charged. If Allen is sent to the death chair, he will be the fir a g0j( : J meet punishment for killing a police officer in Utah,; many people have come to the conclusion that it is not" crime to kill a police officer, for in the past all of the'j have escaped with their lives. lot o It has been more than a year ago that the officei c0 this good officer died from the bullet wound, leaving 'ehit ago wife. After her husband died she became hysterical ?ndn. a with sorrow an in a frantic moment committed suicide. mer( murderous thugs wiped out an entire and respected fng v our community, and yet one of the cowards is allowed Vlirsfhoiitir escape with his .life. There surely must be something :Q with our Utah laws which permit such scoundrels to t by th never should even have noose. the They hangmans cW1(jiar be should they hung by the neck. dared it The next legislature ought to see to it that any holdj fount with a gun or deadly weapon in his possession when of breaking into a house or wheii holding up a person sho;jn sidered murder in the first degree, punishable by death, iby the law enacted will divert all these scoundrels from theirian sonl of coming into our state. isaction is no issued Chief that wonder It Burbidge has orijn officers to take no chances with thugs and to shoot tiUtenant It was a big surprise to the public that Hayes escashas cor mere life sentence in a murder case which really involved the part on account of the assassins bullet. han of c 1 . . l J h ion," WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. le only nactmer Just supposing, to please the various political group: ington, that the bonus bill was passed, the Mellon tas proposal was defeated, the tariff laws were repealed an roads and leading utilities turned over to the politician eminent operation. ; us pU The bonus would add in round numbers from $5,000,000,000 expense, rejection of Mellons proposal wotyvernme a useless $300,000,000 tax expenditure annually, repeal (le exter Vould do away with $500,000,000 annual revenue now stnded- - to this source, while the railroads in less than two years n count ernment ownership, piled up a deficit of nearly $2 ,000,001 th and t would make a pretty good start toward doubling our ight to cessive tax bill. i indust Think it over, Mr. Voter, for you mix your own meg not fi it comes to paying taxes. :nlightcn variou INVESTIGATE LIEUTENANT WOOD..nce, gr and ov As if for our our congressmen there were not somewhat it d and useful at hand to do, they must waste their time andss herea investigating Lieutenant Osborne Wood, son of the make i the Philippines, who is said to have made a millionehow ci trading in stocks. There is nothing in the War Departs men tions that prohibits Lieutenant Wood from buying re to re stocks ; so we may suppose that the investigation is one of two purposes either to discredit Lieutenant Yflnec and able father, to secure for the sapient Congn.ssipy to c gators some useful practicable hints on how to make m: stock market. General Wood has given a number distinguished peewee Congressmen very excellent re isonry La him. He is a soldier and a statesman; he was a Irien.11611 de that velt ; he preached preparedness when a puttering trying to dose the spirit and conscience of the nati ns f should anaesthetics;. and he is a Republican. So when his souPe c many of the generals characteristics of courage, l(.yaltJPimon to lo pendence, uses a talent denied to the father, and malang d we are to have of the lieutenant an investigation by' s Sl e , hoped to destroy the general. a.c As yet, no crime has been charged against Lieut . it is hoped by his fathers enemies that the im e discover something of criminality on his sudden rif e . C fd o: HAYES ESCAPES DEATH. George Allen, alias Henry C. Hett, and Orthur Hayes, two hardened criminals, appeared to be little disturbed when they appeared in court" to be sentenced for shooting Sergeant N. P. Pierce. Allen was sentenced to be shot March 21, and Hayes was given life in the penitentiary. This was one of the most cold blooded and unwarranted crimes in the history of Utah. These two thugs walked the streets of the city in search of easy game. They met Sergeant Pierce and Patrolman George F. Watson on lower Main street. They shot down Pierce and beat Watson over the head until he was insensible. . 1 |