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Show 7 THE CITIZEN 4 i CHURCHES SEE LIGHT At a recent meeting of a Protestant Episcopal organization in New York City, it was announced that a canvas of the entire country had been made and temperance conditions were found to he deplorable, and that prohibition was anything but true temperance. The resolutions charge the 18th amendment has blemished the Constitution and its enforcement has been a failure, resulting in increased drinking and drunkenness and use of opiates, and fostering political corruption. They state that it is inimical to the life of any nation to retain laws which are not and cannot be enforced; and that prohibition has proved a hindrance in the promotion of temperance, and is out of harmony with the Bible. When Andrews was appointed Prohibition Commissioner, he stated that in six months he would have the country dry. The Citizen contradicted him and predicted he would be as much of a failure as all of his predecessors had been, and our present bootleg conditions are absolute proof of the present deplorable situation and his complete failure. Have the bootleggers and their friends such a strangle hold upon the country that we must continue in its present demoralization, or is there yet hope to be able to convict crime and establish order? It is a brazen crime to nearly ruin a country before the people will wake up and demand that all fanatics and their chimeras be ousted. t NON-PARTISA- N When campaigning our popular traveling mayor, C. Clarence Neslen, is a wonderful champion, but when appointments are made his better judgment invariably reverts to his partisan views, and thereby our commission form of government becomes a hoax in the opinion of the public. When he the mayor is out after the hangs out his shingle for votes, but after election he forgets his flaunted views and strictly adheres to Democratic principles. As he is a Democrat we do not blame him in being influenced by the leaders of his party, but we do condemn him for preaching nonpartisanship and practicing Democracy. So a few days ago when a vacancy occurred through death in a Republican office, with appointive power vested in the mayor, our champion named Oliver C. Dalby, prominent Democrat, to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Noel S. Pratt, a Republican who was elected to the office by the people, showing that they wanted a Republican in that office. Dalby is a well known attorney of high standing and no doubt deserves some recognition of his party, being highly endorsed by many of the leaders in his party, including the mayor. Hence, a Republican had no chance for this Republican position. The Citizen has always maintained, and does now maintain, that there is no such animal as in politics. However, the commission form of government provides a cloak behind which a politician may hide if he wishes to appoint a friend who happens to oppose his views in politics. iei but to carry weight, such objections should be accompanied a suggestion of something better. In addition to securj pledges, the campaign has interested a large number of men a women of Salt Lake in the laudable work of the Commun e: e: a Chest. GO SLOW tl Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana Democrat, favors secession of the Philippine Islands from the United States, Why not also include Russia and the Hawaiian Islands! As far as freedom and independence is concerned, we of the opinion that an American stands unchallenged in m i hi( s n i is world. he Does some European country want the Philippine islai and do they expect us to fall for the present pernicious pro eti ganda? )D The islands have become American territory and they shoi remain so. IK IQ OPEN REBEL SEASON in m Mexican rebels are faring badly in that country. They : hung wherever caught by the government and if the present forcement against all bandits is continued much longer, few them will be left in the country. Mexico has always been oy run with bandits. They are easily hired to make trouble a when they need food and money they replenish by pilfering The present system of extermination will result in mi good and life will become more secure in that country. on, non-partis- an non-partisans- hip . CHARITY The Citizen congratulates the workers connected with the Community Chest campaign. Although the goal of $180,000 was not reached, a fairly good response was made to the call of the organized charities of this city. Much praise is due to Messrs. Lipman, Schramm, Sweet and Green, and to Mrs. Ernest Bamberger, in charge of the womens organization, and to the many aides. Such work is difficult and it meant a very strenuous two weeks of effort. The Citizen believes that the expense connected with bringing in outside campaign managers is unnecessary and that some of the work carried on by the Chest could be well replaced with other activities more essential. However, in spite of these and other criticisms, the object is of course praiseworthy and should be encouraged. It is easy enough to raise objections ac in its ti: non-partis- an re-electi- itt in TRAFFIC ii We recall that members of the police department madi trip a few months ago at the citys expense to investigate tr fic regulations in coast cities and what have we? . With the widest streets in the country, cars are lined up single file for half a block in length and there is greater tra conjestion than in any city of the same size in the United Stat , K e ir 0 iei c: t Our worthy mayor, C. C. Neslen, is again touring the eoi try. We know he is able to learn a lot but we hope that thisl trip is not at the citys expense. Will the mayor ask for election on his record? i BUTLERS TOUR T I Senator William M. Butlers tour of the far Western Sta a in his capacity as chairman of the Repulbican National Comn tee and his return to Washington have furnished the highlig for the political waiters during the last ten days. It was ini table when Butler began his journeying with Mr. Hodges, treasurer of the National Committee, that his travels would i for Co interpreted as the begirding of a scouting campaign Wash idge presidential delegates, and there were experts in ton who viewed the proposed expedition with doubts and mis? what ings. Chairman Butler, however, has really performed been heretofore regarded as a political impossibility. He traversed ten states, talked with party and even factioi group leaders, and ie turned home without a scar, having1 couraged, if not instilled, a finer and stronger appreciation i the responsibility and dignity of Republican national activi-In all the states which ho visited, he secured a surprisingly e m ordinary amount of national party publicity, and withal entire 9,000-mil- e journey he did not raise a single flarebacM in0 equally important, at no time was he obliged to amend, he or retract any of the statements or conversations which J Having fortified himself in advance with a declaration the matter of issues and candidates belonged to the convention and that his sole purpose was to counsel with leaders on parly organization, he walked among all groups 01 ii N e I i. ii i r, t i o. |