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Show THE CITIZEN and to properly administrate the affairs of the city government for the benefit of all the people. For this work the people pay taxes. It has been proposed to appoint a board, outside the pale of the city commission, to draft a new fire ordinance. We concur in that the city commission should get all the available advice possible in drafting new ordinances or in revision of old laws, but we do not believe it wise to appoint special commissions to draft laws. What is the city attorney for? What is the commission for? Special boards and commissions have proved more of a curse to the country than an asset. SMITH WET ALL OVER. THE PEOPLE who looked for a classic from the mouth of Governor A1 Smith, Democratic nominee for president, in his acceptance speech tere sadly doomed to disappointment. We expected more from you Al, but probably the nomination has gone to your head and killed the brew. Smith makes many promises, stradles the fence quite often, and then jumps right into a barrel of liquor to cool off. He is just as wet as Hoover is dry, and upon political issues such as the farmer and the tariff he endorses the Republican platform. Democrats all over the country are complimenting Smith for his talk over the radio and they have a right to applaud their leader. However, if Smith makes a few more speeches he will find himself in the Republican column because he is preaching Republican principles. There is one thing upon which Smith is set and that is the modification of the Volstead Act. This Act is a Democratic war measure and law to which the Republicans fell heir to, and no doubt Smith figures that it is up to his party and up to him to make amends. Governor Smith firmly believes that each state should settle its own liquor question. He does not believe that the present law can be properly enforced and that it has created much trouble in this country and he is not backward in saying so. While prohibition is being made a campaign issue, it is far from such. The law is on the books and no matter who is elected, they must swear that they will enforce all laws. If Smith, is elected with all his promises, he cannot change the Volstead Act. Before this law is changed it must go to a vote of the people. Now that Smith and Hoover have discharged their battle cries, the political war is on in earnest and the fans will be kept busy from now until election day with oratory from political leaders of both parties. State Auditor; Dr. C. N. Jensen, for Superintend ent of Public Instruction, and W. H. Folland and Ephraim Hanson, for the Supreme Court. Out of eleven nominations only four went to Salt Lake City, thus giving the rural districts fair representation. The country is drifting to Hoover and Curtis. With a united party in the State, the chances for a complete Republican victory .were never brighter. 5 forced the farmers. He sees our sons of the soil becoming serfs, slaves of the big cities. Well, Lowden could not win the nomination,, and it is best that he did not. There is a greater task for him to do. To do it, he must be free,, which he couldnt be if he were President. Among Democrats his influence would be nil. In the councils of the Republican Party and a Republican Government, in the years to come he will wield an influence that no President could JUSTICE IN HIDING. ever hope to wield. PUBLIC OFFICIALS are elected to office to see that the people are protected in their rights, property and life, but of late years many of our public servants have exalted themselves as masters who must be provided with big, fat jobs. How do they get that way? You must not even criticise one of them. We seldom find a man who can be elected any number of times. Promises generally kill the average politician, yet if the politician did something of real worth for the people such a man could never be defeated no matter how many times he ran for office. But the hirelings are often worse than the bosses. For instance pin a tin plate on the chest of the average person and they swell up like a balloon. They entice people to technically violate the laws in order that they may produce an arrest. Such a stool pigeon should be held more guilty than the enticed. People think that some of our judges are queer. Maybe it is because the pepole do not understand twentieth century law, but a majority of the people know the difference between right and wrong. Maybe this is the season when it is highly impertinent to severely punish real criminals, while unfortunates are given the full penalty of the law. The other day a man struck a woman. There was an arrest, but before the trial came up it is the wounds and of said that money healed course at the trial no evidence was produced that the woman had been hit. Dismissed for lack of THE FARMER OPENLY BEtRAYED. evidence. c MR. RASKOB indicates that the Democratic policy on farm relief is to be determined chiefly by the researches of Professor Seligman. Seligmans connections in Wall Street are too well known to be camouflaged by his professor- ship at Columbia University. Governor Smith could have made no more serious blunder. It proves again the danger of elect-- , ing to the Presidency a man who has spent his entire life within the canyons of New York City. Astute politician though he is, the Governors utter ignorance of farm problems are thus brought glaringly into the limelight. Much has been said about the influence of Wall Street in the politics of the country, but never before has a political party referred a rural question to Wall Street for decision. What would LaFollette say to this, were he alive ? He was a much misunderstood man, living far in advance of his time. The country is just beginning to appreciate him- Governor Smith, however, is unwittingly doing, the country a great service. He is proving a truth of history: that for the tiller of the soil the big-cit- y man has never had anything but the haughtiest contempt. It is worth while for the country, especially the west and the south, to know this plain truth, however unpleasant it may be. America is due for a grand awakening. STARTLING FIGURES. Another case where a woman hit a man in the face because, she says, he insulted her. If he did insult her, the judge should have given her a baseball bat instead of a reprimand and thirty days suspended sentence, but if she started the fight she did not get her just dues. Another man is arrested for healing the sick and convicted as a criminal. To us it appears that the guilty have much to do in dictating the terms of peace, while the innocent are made to suffer. APPROXIMATELY $10,000,000 have been stolen from the banks and brokerage houses in New York during the past year, according to an estimate made by High D. Combs, General Superin-- , tendent of Claims for the United States Fidelity, and Guaranty Company. This is more than 100 per cent increase over last years losses. A master mind is attributed with engineering the work of the gang of forgers. A SOLID FRONT. HOOVER AND LOWDEN. SUFFRAGE IN MEXICO. THE REPUBLICANS of Utah are out to elect their entire ticket. During the convention as before there was Jfce feeling that whoever won, whoever lost m the balloting of the delegates, the ticket must be supported to a man. That spirit is bearing fruit. It spells success. The contest for United States Senator happily came to end with the first ballot, Ernest Bamberger receiving a majority of all the twenty-nin- e counties but five. His nomination was made unanimous. Messrs. Clark and Farnsworth have pledged their support to the whole ticket. When the second ballot showed William H. Wattis to be the partys choice for Governor, that choice was likewise accepted by his opponents. rbe party is solidly behind him. Don B. Colton and E. 0. Leatherwood for Congress, have the support of a united party. So have John W. Peters, for Secretary of State; George P. Parker, for Attorney General; E. Axel Christensen, for State Treasurer; Ivor Ajax, for IN HIS speech at West Branch, Iowa, last Tuesday, Mr. Hoover made it clear that in arriving at a solution of the farm problem he would seek the counsel of Governor Lowden, his opponent in the contest for the Republican nomination. The farmer never need fear his own kind. In the tip of the little finger of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, or Frank 0. Lowden there is more constructive sympathy for the farmer than there is in Al Smith, from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. Coolidge, Hoover and Lowden, all three of them are of the soil. Once a peasant, always a peasant. Rural minds may differ, but the hearts of rural men beat all in the same rhythm. Rural minds may be long in agreeing to a program that is workable, but in the end they will solve their own problem intelligently, if let alone, if freed from the cheap advice of city men. Lowden takes the farm problem seriously. He sees America drifting onto the rocks because of the plight into which our city growth has . THE WOMEN of Mexico want a hand in politics. The Cooperative Union of Women are seriously considering the question of women and the vote. They aim to obtain the ballot, if possible, without forcing an amendment to the Constitution. In other words, the women of Mexicq are clamoring for equal rights and unless all signs fail they will get it. Even in remote comers of the globe where women have been held in subjection all their lives, secluded, going around with their faces covered, slaves to their men, the yoko has been thrown off and they are a power in the government of their countries. The women of Mexico will do the same. THE GREATER a man is in power above othin virtue. ers, the more he ought to excel them None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. Publius Syrus. . THINK OF YOUR forefathers! Think of your, posterity! John Q. Adams. |