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Show reaching into the better class of citizens, that our judges are afraid to enforce the law! Is it the handwriting on the wall that soon we are to be ruled and governed by the criminal THE CITIZEN ffA Thinking Paper for Thinking People 99 Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Entered as second-cla- ss FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor the mutual benefit of the two regions. Their field secretary, A. B. Gray, will be here all this month and will be pleased to tell what his organiaztion is doing and how they can be of service to Salt Lake City. He is expected to report after he has visited all our places of interest and learned that we have to offer, and if we desire to join hands and boost the wonders of the west from Salt Lake to the Pacific. He is stopping at the Newhouse hotel, and says his hours are from morning until night, and later, if necessary. DEPEW LEAVES US. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, one of the really big men of this nation, unexpectedly died Thursday morning at his home in New York City. A few hours before he had arrived from his winter home in Florida, he contracted a cold which turned into pneumonia, and at his age of 93 years, he was unable to overcome the fatal disease. It was but a few days ago that Depew said that. he would attend the Republican convention at Kansas City June 12. He was a good Republican worker, at one time being United States Senator. He was a great orator, possessed of much wit and a good entertainer. At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of directors of the New York Central railroad. SOS FOR GOVERNOR, WEBER COUNTY has been heard from and the Republicans from the north are coming down to the convention with the next governor of Utah. They have not yet decided whether it, will be William H. Wattis or Samuel G. Dye. Ogden believes that she ought to name the chief executive this time and it looks like there is going to be a lively time at the convention. Republicans of this city have centered their fire upon United States Senator. There is going to be a big entry for this race and prominent men from all over the state will try for the nomination. There are a few who are gathering some strength, but none of those spoken of for senator have started an active campaign, which means that political support and strength is an un- known quantity. class ? What is it that is apparently making a farce out of our courts?. Has the day come when it is more fashionable to be a crook than an honest man? Is this the kind of service the people are demanding, and is this the reason for our high taxation? Have the grafters joined hands with the out and out crimi. nals and are we now reaping the harvest? Every now and then we hear of a judge who announces what he will do to the next criminal that comes before him, but the next fellow generally gets less than the preceding fellow. Our courts are becoming a topic of censure and ridicule. ( Are the hands of our judges tied? Really, decent people are asking many questions and want to know what is the matter. We are to have a grand jury right away. We wonder if this grand jury will investigate far enough to ascertain why criminals are let off so easily? Some time ago Commissioner Burton asked for more policemen, and now we find policemen so plentiful that as many as four officers have been seen sitting in a cigar store watching a card game. When the proprietor was asked why so manyj officers were in his place he said, Oh, they are looking for fellows who bet on the horse races. In fact, we are continually chasing chimeras and let the big things get away. If a business is so rotten that it takes four officers to watch it, we say that the proprietor of such business ought to be arrested and prosecuted, but not persecuted. There are many things the grand jury ought to take into consideration, and while in session they ought to also dig into the city and county building and see what is going on there and what has been going on for several years. It was not so long ago that a man was arrested on a serions charge. The charge was reduced and he was sent to jail for sii months, but in a few weeks he was out and walking up and down Main street as big as any banker in the city. No time in our past history have the criminals stalked about so boldly. INSECT CONTROL. NOTWITHSTANDING that the department of agriculture has spent millions of dollars in fighting insects that destroy our m fruits, they are far from solution of the problem. While they kill some of the insects, worms, etc., by spraying poison on the fruit, the results are far from satisfactory and the department! is now trying to find some spray which will doj the work. Our scientific men have butted their heads against a sto wall and the crop pest insects are beginning to get the best them. feaCatching the insects with traps appears to be the most sible plan, but there is no science, so to speak, in trapping insectej and our scientists hate to swrerve from the poison route. D! non-poisono- us of Bill Seegmiller of this city will go into the convention to MAY BE ABSENT. land the nomination of governor. His friends are rallying about him and according to reports he will be plenty strong when the SENATOR BORAH states that Harry F. Sinclair will time comes. be at the Kansas City Convention in person, though the paVy its may still be under obligation to him for having paid WHAT PRICE JUSTICE? All decent people agree with Senator Borah in his eritic. conditions recently disclosed in Washington, but Senator WHEN ONE reads the editorial Discounting Justice that knows as does every sensible person, that the Republican appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune last Thursday morning, tionaT Convention will name candidates of the highest The candidates will be named on the floor of the ConvenJ the thinking man or woman must say Amen to that. When our courts openly blink at the law, what can be ex- controlled in all probabilities by the efficient work of organ1 pected of the people? Has crime become so common, even tions in selecting delegates favoring this man or that. I 1 |