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Show THE CITIZEN It takes a good coal fire to keep us warm in the winter and not a gas flame. Next we expect to hear someone finding fault with the Utah Light & Power company for producing too much electricity and importing too many electric stoves and appliances, or that the Utah Gas & Coke company is making too much V1&us. Just as a contrast: Los Angeles wants to build the Boulder dam and pay for it; you dont hear any Californian knocking it. Here, we get something at the expense of another, plus big taxes, and we begin knocking. BAMBERGER IS POPULAR. ERNEST BAMBERGER has started an active campaign for his nomination for United States Senator on the Republican ticket, with the opening 6f headquarters at the Cullen hotel, this 'Sy. The State campaign will be carried on by an executive committee of prominent business men and Republican leaders, among whom are Senator E. R. Callister, former speaker of the Utah House of Representatives; Mr. Nephi L. Morris, well known Republican and Progressive leader, the former Republican nominee for Governor; Mr. James J. Burke, president of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce; W. Mont Ferry, former mayor of Salt Lake City and managing director of the Silver King Coalition Mines company; Daniel Alexander, Serge Baliff, Lincoln J. Kelly, J. C. Lynch, Hon. E. A. Rogers, James Ivers, J. A. Groesbeck, Hamilton Gardner, H. S. Joseph, Jesse B. Sharp, J. A. Barclay, J. Parley White and others. Senator Callister is chairman of the Executive Committee in charge of the campaign, and Mr. J. Parley White is in charge of headquarters. Mr. White, formerly chief of police of Salt Lake City, has been a member of the County Committee for a number of years and is very. prominent and well known in Republican circles.' . .. A most active campaign is being carried on and thorough organization is. being perfected. Mr. Bamberger is well known to the Republican voters through his long service in the party. For the past 20 years he has given his efforts, time and means to all the past campaigns and for the last eight years has been the Republican National Committeeman. From this long and faithful party service he has built up around him the support of the great rank and file of the party, the ardent workers who are always found on the firing line in November. During this service he has become well known to thousands of Republicans throughout the State and has made many firm friendships through his straightforward, honest manner and his clean moral character a man respected by all who have met him. Mr. Bamberger has always stood for agricultural relief and high protective tariff. He knows Utahs needs, being heavily interested in farms, live stock, sheep and mines, so from personal exigence he knows the farmers, stockgrowers and miners problems. He is now carrying on an extensive farming and ranching operation on Antelope island in the Great Salt Lake. Because of his known sympathy with the farmers he has received favorable encouragement from the head of the National Farm Bureau. His long experience with the laboring man, while operating some of the largest mines in the State, has been so satisfactory that his candidacy has been recently endorsed by the labor leaders of the State and by the National Legislative Committee of the Four Brotherhoods and 21 affiliated bodies. He has also received the support of a large number of l'&Vlers of the Progressive movement. With the support he has from the party organization, rank and file, men who help win elections, the farming and stockgrowing communities, the progressive element and the laboring organizations, he has become the outstanding can . 5 didate and logically the strongest man the party can nominate. Mr. Bambergers life in this community for the past 50 years, having been bom in Utah, is an open book and on this lifelong record of honesty, uprightness and high moral character he. stands. Naught but praise can be said of his private and public life. Chairman White will direct an open, healthy and energetic campaign, free from party strife, and with such a campaign is confident Mr. Bamberger will be nominated. In all, no cleaner, better type of man than Ernest Bamberger could be chosen to represent Utah in the United States Senate. - THE SPORT OF KINGS. IF SOME theatrical genius would write a scenario dealing with the race horse situation in Uteh, they surely would make a big hit on the stage. As far as the law is concerned, the people are completely up in the air and they cannot comprehend the meaning of the law. Our courts have rendered so many decisions for and against racing that is the gambling part of it that a long legal battle is in sight unless the race promoters throw up their hands in disgust and quit the state, by refusing to further advance expense funds for a legal battle. The legislature of 1925 passed the Redd race bill which provided for a state horse racing commission. The measure was passed March 11, 1925, approved March 14, and took effect May 12, 1925. The law was an act relating to horse racing, and provided for the creation of a state racing commission, defining its powers and duties and repealing all ACTS and PARTS OF ACTS in conflict therewith. The law provided for two annual meetings with a time limit, commission membership, licenses and fees and permitted betting under the system. Chapter 77, Section 6, Laws of Utah 1925: Betting permitted restriction. It shall be unlawful to make or place any wager on the result of any race held under the provisions of this Act; provided, however, that bets or wagers made under the or system of betting and wagering shall not be unlawful, and said cosystem of betting or operative or wagering on the results of said races shall be under the regulations of the commission. Then Section 7 provides: General repeal. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Now then, if this law does not mean what it says, why did the state of Utah become a partnership in racing and condone an alleged evil prohibited by law? If the racing under this law was legal, certainly previous laws prohibiting racing must have been repealed as stated in the enacting clause. Then comes the legislature of two years ago and repeals the Redd racing law and stops right there without providing any new law governing racing. Last year a court, if our memory serves us right, ruled that betting under the system was not gambling. Now comes the supreme court and rules that betting on horses under the system, or any other system, is illegal. It appears to us that racing under the Redd Act must have been illegal if that Act did not repeal provisions in the law in conflict therewith, and if conflicting sections were repealed by passing the Redd law, we cannot understand how a former law that had been killed could be successfully resurrected by killing the Redd Act. When a law is repealed, we take it that it is as dead as a pickled herring and can only be revived by act of the legislature, and during the past pari-mutu- al - pari-mutu- al ive pari-mutu- al pari-mutu- al pari-mutu- al session of the legislature no provision was made to take the place of the Redd Act. Horse racing is a kings sport! Should not the poor also enoy it? It has been one of the most attractive outdoor sports in the history of the world, and is today. It is an expensive sport hence, the sport of kings. Manager William P. Kyne has given the people of this state as good and clean racing as has been seen anywhere in the country. As a result thereof, thousands of people go daily to the races to enjoy this sport. Because of horse racing, this state has, without cost to itself, built big structures and made big improvements at the state fair grounds. Are we to believe when we go to the fair this fall and see these improvements that they were secured by gains? Surely such a lesson is demoralizing. Where you find a progressive and contented people you will also find that wholesome outdoor recreation plays an important part in their makeup. The Citizen is for any clean sport which the people enjoy. ill-gott- en ADVERTISING. PROPER advertising is the real foundation in every business, great or small. He who cannot afford to advertise, invariably finds when the first of the month arrives that he lacks sufficient funds to promptly meet incoming bills. Such an individual entrenches himself in a rut that eventually leads to much trouble and ofttimes to disaster and bankruptcy. The Citizen reaches the offices and homes of the businessmen, the people who have the money to spend and who do spend it. Therefore an advertisement in this paper is of material value and of great benefit to the advertiser. Take for instance, amusements. The summer resorts and theatres that advertise in The Citizen are enjoying a big business and are making money. It is more than a coincidence that we happened to be hooked up with paying concerns. We reach the people that read and spend money, and thats the people the advertiser aims to reach. An advertisement sent to a person without means is like rubbing linament on a wooden leg for rheumatism. Read The Citizen. It will make you think, and the thinkers are the constructive builders of the nation. DO YOUR DUTY. THE HUE AND CRY is going up about the proposed increased tax levy, which reminds us that 4500 people voted on the !ast school bond issue. Those who cast their votes were, in the main, residents of the district in which the school will be built, and, therefore, were personally interested. The balance of our citizens evidently didnt care. There isnt much use in locking your door after the thief has escaped with your valuables. Neither is there much use in complaining about a thing when you had a chance to help divert the disaster. In November you will have an opportunity to cast your vote in one of the most important elections in the nations history. In fact, the most As a important since Lincolns administration. citizen of the United States it is your privilege to have a say so in deciding what you think is the best thing for the country as a whole. Dont be a backslider but do your duty and vote. Study and every side of the question before the public then vote as your own conscience dictates, but VOTE. Then, whether we have four years of hard times or four years of prosperity you will at least have the satisfaction of knowing you are partially to blame or not to blame and that you did your duty as you saw it. |