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Show UTAH'S BURDEN. .More than $10,000,000 has gone out of 111 all as its contribution to tho country's causo in the great war. This ' money has been given with a liber-j liber-j ality unexcelled anywhere in tho nation, I although our people aro aware that, I owing to our peculiar situation, wc shall j not derive front our contributions tho profits which. aro constantly roturning to j other statos. Many millions of dol-f dol-f lars havo left the state, never to ' ( rotura. We have made ourselves poorer : in order to uphold our country in the 'i war, and the people of Utah, rich and i : poor, are willing to give their all, if 1 necessary, to save the land from defeat : ; and invasion by the Huns. Nevertheless, the burden upon Utah ; , has boon greater than upon most states, i ; While other states have been enriched i with war industries wo have obtained nothing. Apparently, we were to have ; had a groat establishment at Fort ; Douglas. Scores of btuldings were 1 erected and thousands of troops were concentrated here. Then, after tho ! government had been put to much ex- ; , ponse, most, of tho soldiers were shipped ' to other states, despite tho distinct advantages ad-vantages of this climato for'all-the-year 1 training. The soldiers were taken to moro rigorous climates, where they were ablo to drill but little in the cold sea-. ; son, whereas the few that remained here I ; engaged in trench warfare in the heart ' of winter. i. The excuse was made that it cost more to maintain soldiers here than at the other camps. Our business men conducted con-ducted an investigation and did not find ; such discrepancies in prices as would, 1 in their opinion, waVrant the foregoing : ; of tho very valuable advantages of Salt Lake as a supply and concentration ; depot. They offered to underwrite, so to speak, tho difference in price and reimburse the government for any loss, confident that in' the long run there ! would be no loss. , Slowly, a feeling has grown that our representatives in congress have been neglecting us. They have been so deeply engaged in war work that they have forgotten to think about their own j state. The congressional delegations : front cither states have seen to it that their states obtained the maximum of benefit from war industries. If our representatives rep-resentatives do not keep a constant vigil in our behalf no one else will. No politics poli-tics is involved in these suggestions, for our representatives belong to both parties par-ties -and all aro about equally respon-j respon-j sible. L'tah capitalists differ in their entvr-' entvr-' prises from tho capitalists of other ;; states. They are constantly taking risks ' which are foreign to eastern eapita-fiii'ls. i It has been said, and no doubt truly, that more money is put into mining , properties than ever is taken out. And ; yet no allowance is made for Utah when ' it is a question of war contributions. We are required to give proportionately with the people of other states. Tho capitalists of the east put their . money into entcrprfses sure to reap rich profits. For tho most part the money goes into war industries and the profits are guaranteed. How different it is , with the mining men! They do not know, from month to month, whether tiiey will have a profit or a loss. F.ven w lun they operate paying mines thev risk big sums in development work that may never pan out. They take these - risks while the business men of the ' ca engage in industries whose profits are assured, aud in many cases guaranteed. guaran-teed. These are some of the reasons why the burdens of contributions and taxation weigh unequally upon Utah. Although our people are willing to give their '-'last dollar, if need be, they foci that " they should not ho discriminated . , against, that some compensation should .". be given them. Tf we had big war industries, like the east, we could not complain; but. we have not even those industries which should have been - given to us, and which would have been given to us, perhaps, if our congres- sional delegation had been more alert, j |