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Show r Published Every Saturday GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0H INC. E. SCHEFSKI, Editor A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: tiding postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per. year, six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 4.50 per year. Payments should be made payable to The Citizen. BY i. by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postofflce at Salt Lake March 3, 1879. Act of under the City, Utah, ' Salt Lake City, Utah Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- i! 13 i COOLIDGES MESSA GE liquors; they dine and entertain our representatives, and there is States, is one of the longest addresses made in the history of liquor for all. The law is looked upon with such ridiculousness ijon, and it takes in nearly all vital questions pertaining to our that a big majority of the people are daily violators and hold a genilism and progress. If our Congress works along the lines sug-fo- r eral contempt for the law. the next two years, there is no doubt that much good will Our Congress appears not big enough to handle this simple Our government is still maintained upon an ex-- ; question or the members are afraid to speak their mind in the matj jmplished. scale as compared with before the World War, and every ter. The bootleggers are buying out the government daily as is should be made to reduce this extravagance to business prin-I- t truthfully born out in the many arrests of enforcement officers who is costing over four times as much to administer the af--f have taken hush money. It is easier to get a drink in New York City state today than it did in 1914. The present progress and than it is in London. Canadians are getting rich selling liquor io our dtv of the country can only be maintained through equitable dry people. Bootleggers manufacture all kinds of poison to sell nent and justice accorded to all the people living within our to our people. Our President is attacked for of the law. He rv lines. The President cautions the government to proceed is ridiculed in the papers, but why dont these propagandists clean (deration and to translate principles into action, ie President says that in our country the people are sovereign up their own communities and show what can be done in their neighis one of our most borhood? The reason is, because the law is a farce and cannot be dependent and that local e enforced. s possessions. If Coolidge honestly believes in that we The President can do nothing else but advocate the enforcement he, or any one else, can favor his joining and adher-- a World Court, in which we would not only lose our indivi- - of law and order. He cannot himself go out on police duty. He a but our niiiiiiitif right of dictation as to what we shall do and what can, however, suggest sane legislation in this direction and Bring to not do. The proposed World Court is only a proposition an end the present farce. The President is anxious to dispose of Muscle Shoals and get it re the United States in a triangular scheme to dictate to the in which England and France would annex the United Slates in the hands of private business in order that some good may be deher their own interests at the expense of ours. With such a rived from it; in its present state it is a national liability which i existence, the self determination of small nations would ab-- r ought to be turned into an asset. become impossible. At the present writing France denies The President urges cooperation among our farmers, our irriians independence and is backed up by the League of Nations, gation projects, commerce, consolidation of railways that lower rates E orld Court will make the final decision. If we are a member may be secured, our manufacturing interests, and not only should assist to keep the Syrians in bondage. This is foreign to all there be friendly relations between our farming, manufacturing and foreign commercial relations, but we should also see that the departjinciples of self government and independence, and it would many years to have every small nation of the world our ments of the navy, aerial service and the army are placed upon the ts highest plane of efficiency. ob-3e regard to prohibition, the President requests the people to The President warns us that our prosperity will continue only en-elaw, urges the public officers to continue their efforts for so long as we judiciously and properly use it. the f action for and recommends favorable on prose-obudget From now on the Senate and the House will grind out national this work. It has only been a few days ago when some of legislation. f fanatics and the President said: took task to unjustly There sits a man in the White House of silent determination. !hll:lii UTAH TAXPAYERS. done some fine moralizing on the general enforcement of the UN rnl it he never yet has definitely committed his administration to eli ids The first big meeting of the Utah Taxpayers Association, which In- jorcement of the Eighteenth Amendment, as provided by his was held at the Newhouse hotel, proved a big success as regards atoffice to support the Constitution. te President has done his best to handle the liquor situation, tendance and general interest shown in our local tax problems. That the organization has come to stay is a foregone conclusion and the officer that has been placed in the field to enforce prohibition KSC rfv failed and today our country as regards the liquor ques-Jth- e movement is taking on a national aspect which assures similar orlaughing stock of the entire world. The Eighteenth ganizations in all of our states. in its present form is the greatest debacle of political The time for tax assessments by politicians who like to handle lied foment world since history was written, and that is the reason large sums of money and spend the same in all sorts of ways has mid 1 be enforced. Foreign diplomats come to this country as been brought to a sudden I stop. In the future the people will want 1220 I tatives of their countries, bringing with them barrels of fine to know just what is being done with their money and as the property k Presidents message to Congress, the 69th congress of these iiiiiiiiiii non-enforceme- self-governme- nt can-wher- UIIIHIIII 11 c- i nt IIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIH I Li nt |
