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Show I Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, BUSINESS MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION 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. , Payments should be made payablf to.;Tt)e Citizen. by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, Address all communications tojThe'Cltizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 . 311-12-- 13 PROSPERITY FOR ALL We are on the eve of a great election. Political candidates are touring the country and blowing their horns and they have prescriptions which will cure all our ills. But can they? When we stop and think, what really bad ills have we? Are not all the people of the country at work? Was Utah ever in a more properous condition than she is today? Look about you! How many idle people have we in Utah? Then why change the order of our present satisfactory machinery? The people are all at work; the people are all happy; our Republican administeration has given us satisfaction by adopting business policies, and there is no reason why this good work should not be continued. Then votr straight: Calvin Coolidge for the leader of the nation and Charles R. Mabey for Governor of Utah, and down the line to constable. Do you want continued prosperity by letting well enough alone or are you going to risk a change in the present equilibrium by the confusion and installation of new officers which must necessarily result by a change? Utah is lucky in having good men in office. It costs large sums to train officials, and good officials invariably bring prosperity to your door. The Republican legislative ticket this year has probably better representation than ever in our history and it will be well for the people to consider how they vote. For the state senate we find such men as .Herbert S. Auerbach, president of the Auerbach company, the largest mercantile institution of the west; E. R, Callister a prominent attorney who is willing to sacrifice personal business to further the interests of his state, and Dr. C. F. Westphal, a former state senator, a prominent dentist. Why do men like these consent to run on the Republican ticket? Because they have confidence in the Republican administration. For the house of representatives the people have selected businessmen and farmers who have made a success in their various pursuits, and each and every one of them is a respected and trustworthy citizen. In this list we find Hamilton Gardener, an able lawyer; Jesse B. Sharp, vice president of the Modern Furniture company and present county Republican chairman; W. E. McKell, manager of the American Surety company; Malclom A. Keyser, banker and former city commissioner; R. Verne McCullough, a prominent young attorney who is making a great name for himself; Wm. C. Stark, a thrifty merchant; Mrs. Julia Smart, who gives up much of her time as a welfare worker; Ray S. McCarty, an attorney of high standing in the (Qmmunity; Patrick H. Goggin, manager of the Independent Ice company, one of the large business concerns of this city; Elias S. Woodruff secretary of the Auto Club of Utah; Mrs. A. E. Graham, welfare worker and former legislative representative in whom the people have great confidence; M. B. Andrus, stockman and farmer of high ideals and possessing much business ability; Mrs. N. A. -- Dunyon, also a prominent welfare worker who gives up much of her time to the needs of the people; J. E. Openshaw, a bank accountant; N. H. Hansen, a thriving merchant, and H. Claude Anderson, superintendent of the Garfield Improvement company. In former issues of this paper we have spoken of the efficient business qualities possessed by our county commissioners Wm. H. Stenacker and E. L. Burgon, and our county attorney, Arthur E. Moreton. Now when men of this calibre knock at the door of a political party and run for office, the people may depend upon it that such men. will even give more to the public than they ever did to their It will be an honor to each and every one of them to make a record in the coming legislature for the interest and benefit of all the people. Their reputation is at stake and such men always make good. These men are for Utah and for better times. They are not radical like some candidates who are advocating public ownership of basic lines of industry for the mere purpose of getting into office to reap some future benefits. As the Manufacturer says, it is difficult to understand why in a country such as this we should have intelligent persons seeking to detroy the freedom, initiative and ambition of the private American citizen, and doing it ostensibly in the name of the people, ostensibly in the interest of the commonwealth and for the betterment of living conditions. We need only to look over the world to realize that America, under private development and initiative with a government which other nations where official control of industry and the people has held them down almost to a condition of servitude. Why should we adopt policies which take away individual rights private-business- and liberty? Why should we want government ownership, state ownership or municipal ownership after we have seen its operation in other countries, in our own country during the war in connection with our railroads and shipping in Canada, in our great cities and in numerous undertakings where the expenditure of public funds has been squandbut incompetent public ered through the inefficiency of well-meanin- g officials? Private initiative and individual ambition, not public ownership and governmental restriction, have made Our Country the richest nation in the world today with only six percent of the worlds population. Our standards of living are the key to the world politics of our time. We unlock the world war reparations puzzle with the Dawes report. of the worlds f This American six per cent consume lumber, and ten times as much plumbing as all Europe. We produce half the worlds cotton but consume more than of it; we six per cent consume over forty per cent of the one-hal- one-fourt- h worlds coal. In 1923 we produced more than and used most of it ourselves. We used two-third- s two-third- s of the worlds steel of all the |