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Show Published Every Saturday 6Y GOODWJN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO- - INC. BUSINESS MANAGER ' I; 'A. W. RAYBOULD, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the United 8tatesy Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, ding postage six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal in 50 per year. i Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address ali communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lakev, City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 ? 311-12-- V Salt Lake City, Utah ! '; 13 ; 1 - s LEGISLA TURES TO THE FORE f 3 Kt I e United States enters the year 1925 with the brightest pros-an- y nation in the world. We have seen wonderful develop-thi- s country in the past fifty years but this has all been pre-- f to even greater growth and greater wonders to be performed wars. e legislatures of . various states will soon be in session new congress will be assembled. The gentlemen who com-es- e bodies should thoroughly recognize the responsibilities ley have assumed as the representatives of 110,000,000 peo-rs- t of all, every lawmaker should understand that he or she resentative of all the people and not merely of some special e .r ? hxy group or other division of citizens. portant legislation affecting the growth and development of isic industry in the United' States will be presented to state and Policies regarding the future of radio . lawmaking bodies. up for consideration. Public utilities which are rendering d interstate business in supplying a growing demand for their Railroad on farms and in smaller towns will be considered. on is perennial, and so is mining with us in this state. Vari-isure- s ume of freak legislation came from every state and that there is no escape from responsibility for any political party or individual for failure to heed the mandate of the American people on these vital issues. The people are not interested in the number of laws which anyone representative may introduce. If our lawmakers' ' would go through the code and eliminate all our radical and freak legislation, they would make a business record. The people as a rule fear legislatures and it is the opinion of the average business man that if our years the country would legislatures would meet every twenty-fiv- e be better for it. We have elected a good business man for governor in George H. Bern, and he will work with the best legislature the state has elected in many years, and quite naturally from such a body of men the people will expect big things. ! A 1 & y) 9 M sv 1 Cb 2T. a 3 V. I. .1 . AUTOMOBILE LICENSES. ' h . . many times to automobile' horseaffecting the insurance business offer a prolific field licenses which are all rated according to the size of the car or srimenting. Mining, lumber and oil are three great primary power, with requests that we say something about it. Many people es that have been special targets for legislative attention, believe that where there is a gasoline tax there should be' a uniform her industries might be added to the list. Good roads is one charge for the automobile license. The larger a car is the more, gaso-li- n it takes to run it and of course the owner contributes that much ssential features for this state and we ought to build as many roads as we can every year in order to get our share of the more to the auto taxes. Some of our large cars will only run ten or twelve miles on a gallon of gasoline. Some of the smaller cars will :rade. Legislative activity in the past has been largely those industries which employ the greater number of run two and three times that distance on a gallon of gas, which of pays two and three times y out the most in wages and taxes and keep the business of course means that the owner of the larger car as much in gasoline tax as does the owner of the smaller car. on going. Then why should owners of big cars be made paid an extra pslative procedure of this character should be reversed. Our srs should awaken to the fact that operating industries and license tax also? The automobile owner submits to a class tax which no other ., and . prosperous farmers,, fill the dinner buckets and sav-hi- s nation. property is subjected to, or if assessed would create such an uproar r lawmakers should busy themselves on policies for reducing that the matter would be immediately dropped. The automobile is taxed to build good roads. How much of this , both state and national. By reducing taxes is not meant n is said that every ray with public improvements ; such must go on, but we have tax has gone into good roads the past year? It fi chair warmers that if business methods were introduced a big dollar has gone into overhead. If that is a fact, is it not the duty incoming legislature to make a few changes which will benefit PjMti taxation could be 'made. The legislators should study T for equalizing the tax burden, rather than adopting tax the people? What the people demand is a fair tax and justly levied 2 s which fill the public treasuries by Special, taxation on .n upon all. . meas-of business or industry. They, should consider PRIVILEGES. help enlarge the market for our manufactured and measures or jiral products. . There are hundreds of constructive, How would you like to be an ambassador of a foreign country :i seleticb'tbey. can work which will be. of benefit to all the people. States? supporting destruc- to the United . absolutely no excuse for advocating-o4 in-tThe choicest of wines and whiskies are shipped into this counisures which discourage or unsettle business and prevent s of capital, to the detriment of the state and the nation. try to be enjoyed by the foreigners and their friends, and a law which brands an American a criminal who drinks liquor, yet respects the A South, litical parties in power in the nation arid, in; the forty-eigh- t v , , foreigner who may saturate himself in the best brands of spiritous 340 ou study our election and remember that demands for con-reduction of tax burdens and minimizing the vol- - wines, fine whiskies and brandies that foreign markets produce. policies, ilH1 llllllllllll Our attention has been called so , di-gain- st -- 4 1 . t of-th- e spe-nch- es S ich-wil- l m . r i ?V -- , |