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Show LNrv fc Costs in War and Strikes S administration never did a better thing than the Attorney General gave instructions that promoters of anarchy in this country be assem weekan , ifcledfand.sent back to their native shores.-L- ast entire shipload "was started for Soviet Jtassia, among them such dangerous characters as'Emma Goldman and"' Derkman, long advocating the overthrow of our govern- I THE i 1 1 t ' ), - h 7- , ment by 4 violence. - This is a lard of freedom and free speech, but there . Is no reason why those who are absolutely against the Government should be permitted their freedom here, assailing our institutions and standing for a form of anarchy more terrible than war. Our gallant boys were sent abroad to fight for our institutions and against the fore. , es that threatened the liberty of the world, and they return to this country to find here at work forces quite as terrible, if successful, as the tyranny of the Kaiser and the Czar. It is a hopeful sign that the boys returning have through their American Legion stood strongly for law and order. In many paining camps of the West, some in our own state, they have very completely run out the 1. W. W. and other forms of agitators that have stood . against, not only capitalists, but our very form of government. But it would seem that their mission should be extended to, the metropolis of our country Because the government was bold enough to deport the radicals, in New York almost ruled the city one day111" ' last week. They declaimed against the government and inarched with their banners protesting against the nets of the government, overriding the police and civil author-"..- ; ities. It would have been well if the boys of the Legion , could have been back of the police at the right moment and made felt their strong arm as they have in the mining camps of the West. New York has always been more foreign than Amer-lea- n in public demonstration, . so .many foreigners being here congregated in the congested wards of the city that a foreign atmosphere.- - It is said that the . ;lheviive are justas foreign aB the cities 'of. their f oreign quarters native land, and English is lmrdly. spoken.; It is hard . them, , for our public school system to be operated among the e to ko .foreign are' the children, , They havebooks. taught . Naturally language ns well as how to readofour count the .the that of press rj , which js., " kind, in homes standing. -after all the best teacher of patriotism, has no and ideas are Tead, of foreign print 'Only small papers institutions arrpublisheil. jnotin harinony with "our free mission right here in our Ho altogether we find a big one of the tiwn land for teaching Americanism. It is Mfipy went .. slogans that will enter the next campaign, wild during the war for internationalism and the need of Democracy of the world,? but the urgent in New demonstration I the shown been nationalism has by Americanthan theme today York. There is no greater the very hope of the as stands the for republic great ism, in then fail very deed is freeworld. If onr institutions earth. Europe is dom vanished from the face of the groveling in a transition period between representative government and government by crowned heads, but here the people have ruled for more than & hundred years. There may be faults in onr body politics, but when. the It people arise in their might those faults are remedied. correct the' bombs are not way and ballots is sure that of righting our wrongs. i Tri THE Radical Must Be Removed. CAr money cost of the war to the United States is and at somewhere between twenty-fiv- e three least at to cost thirty billion dollars. The - other nations waa much greater. The loss In property destroyed was comparably enormous. And then, there was the loss of human live, reckoned on a cash basis. The dead in and because of the war were approximate ten. millions? nr more than twice as many as in all the . ware of the. nineteenth - century, including NapoL eons and of the twentieth century down ed 1914 The j ..Carnegie Endowment for International Peace calculates that on a cash bails the lives destroyed by the war meant , and a half a loss to the world of more than thirty-thre-e not disposed to disv ; billion dollars; figures which we are An average low. pute, unless indeed to reckon them too on human set of $3,350 apiece is not a high valuation to lives. The same authority calculates the total loss to the ; f world at about $337, 000,000, (XXX . V C damn constitute a . Such are appalling They figures 1914-191- 8 ing indictment of war. TheyYnark.the four.yearg as the most costly in the; history ;of the world.' Yet . there are; other figures which must pot escape- consideration, and which indeed are not altogether unworthy to V i ,I v he bracketed with these. . 4t tbe beginning of last month strike began wi one of the greatest find most essential industries of the . nation. ItSvas shrewdly arranged for at the time.when iti ' greatest ' possible suffering and loss. would cause-thBefore it ended. jt. had thrown more than 5,000,000 per-son- s i out.of profitable -- employment. Reckoning their . day, wages at the moderate average of four dollars their direct money losses were at the Tate of more, than six billion dollars a year. At the same time there was an extensive paralysis of business at. the very . season, when ... business' should be most profitable. It would be a low thus sustained at twice that , ; ' estimate to place the loss' These two itemstHen, indicate r s of the workmen wages. at the therateof eigh- strike ;' money loss through that, teen billion dollars a year,' or as much'as the entire war " VV--. ' debt of. the United States. . V . That is td skyi the.soft coal strikeat its height was , costing ns in money as much as the war cost us; Aafor the less direct losses, including those nf health and life,. we jbave nodoubt that they, too, were at a rate compar-- ; able with those of the war. s That. is a viewof affairs which is earnestly to he commended to those who' are so fond of glibly talking ; about' the inviolable and alifioable right of men to striker-wh- ile at the same. time condemning as an unspeakable in wars, if' iniquity the right to fight; We dont believenot inclined are we they canpossibly be avoided. But dol-- : billion to split hairs otef 'the 'difference between a in strike; or ilaTs spent in; war and. billion dollars lost between a thousand lives lost in war and a thousand lives . lost through A RtrikeV deprivations. their,-sympathizer- s . -- CQKte ? - before the feer n i&xax, C . j : LP ir ? J, . 0 Past Year Was Prosperous i i year just closing will be memorable in history the inflated prices and profiteering in almost inevery line of endeavor. While the fanners, for stance, complained at the increased prices of nearly everything purchased hy him, he did not stop to remem-,.bethat not many years' ae:o lip was willing to sell his n hay for five dollars a ton, where he now demands twenty-tiThe price of hi shoes have hardly increased five - THE i r. .v.r time. 1; ,1 -- r ,i I t r. ; Likewise the sheepmen and 'the cattlemen have each liad prices in their lines doubled and trebled. But when the. farmers prosper then the whole commercial world weems to partake offthq,high prices of produce. The foundation of our prosperity is the direct yield from the sbil. Let the prices of produce decline and the purchasing power of the great sustaining part of our community is nullified. Hard times invariably follow the low prices : . of produce. " . . - - 1-- ' ? i : 3 -- 1 I " . t . . may-prevai- l. : ' y y , ix ts - L ... -- 1 0 - ' i - To Keep Sweet Utah Back Again J hack in the Republican column in 1920 This of the UTAH determination of Will Hays, chairman ' is lending who national committee, Republican tremedous his of ounce energy to the campaign to every swing the intermountain states back into the Republican fold in the next Presidential election. Utah is a Republican state at heart, and when the votes are counted next November that is where yon will find her, said Mr. Hays, who took occasion to pay Senator Reed Smoot a compliment that is seldom equaled. Senator Smoot is worth $500,000,000 a' year to United States; he will save the country that much every His wide year for the next six years. said Mr. Hays, knowledge of governmental finance, his strong opinions, his honest actions in the practice of government economy are invaluable to this country in the years that are coming. We demand efficiency, and we propose to require and economy all the economy consistent with efficiency, exeeution the for man is of Senator Reed Smoot Utah tl$ of both purposes. What better resolution could one make for the new year than that But thats exactly what we have resolved to do and we dont intend to stop there either we are going to help others to keep sweet, too. There Should Be System So heres hoping that your life will be sweet through- out the entire new year. 1 one point in o . beau- The presence of a few fragrant flowers or a few ' i ' tiful green plants in the home will have a far reaching influence upon the lives of every member of the family. They will help to keep sweet their lives, which after all is what we all strive for. o -- - the Presidential message uot, II b, Phone 80 f .Where the flowers grow Up town office and display room at Columbia Theatre Bldg. ooo- had perfected gave a sure market to the Western livestock growers. If making meat cheaper should result in a mined livestock market, where is the gain to pur . . : section of the country! ' ; v rwhile-w- So favor. the reduced . prices .where, real e profiteering is the rule that is where merchants add to their selling price unwarranted profits, we are certainly not in favor of low prices or a cheap country. Our dollar is five times as big as a franc, the standard of roeasnre-- ' ment on the continent of Europe, and everything is five times as prosperous in our country as in Europe. Our standard of living is five times a great as the standard . that prevails. there.. Our .workmen; derivewages Jive Aimes as great and they have five times as much happiness. Their comforts in homes and general living are five times as great. So we do not want a cheap country here, where high prices have their charm as well as their disadvantages. 'I f i ' ' f tic HAPPYNEWYEAR We wish yon all a most prosperous New Year, and means-othanking our many friends for their ' in the splendid support year drawing to a close. We appreciate your business? and promise to continue to give yon the best it is possible to give. - 'take this 1 . f . -- , 7 THE FLAUOB LASTS r SO D0ES THE PRICEI , -- 3 H NOW 7 Senator H&rding makes a good speech anyway. . - ;'v v -- -- here i' - tt - original with it there wilf he general and hearty agreement. That is, the desirability of adoptefficient buding at once a comprehensive, business-like- , is one of the get system for our national finances. It most absurd anomalies In the world that business transactions amounting to billions of dollars a year should happy-go.luck- y stvie of be directed in the South corner Si Perkins Sqneduqk. There grocery atj of differences opinion concerning $ome details may be On the main scheme. of the question there eah be none. There should be a budget system created before another' appropriation bill is passed. es - a UPt)N- , . 9 c o peeftacs e rule-of-thum- IT So while we do not believe in profiteering, and all realize that the general prices are too high, we hope that .there will not be a reaction such as may usher in a period of low prices and general commercial stagnation. It is in limes of high prices that the general prosperityVeigns. "Men of our community still remember the period of high-,-HcIn mining camps In pioneer times' In Pioche, Nev., Tor Instance, flour was $12 per hundred and all produce Un like proportions, and yet it was there men went-to- 'roakemoheyr''Tlie same condition prevailed much money .was made. Men do not go into places where low. prices prevail to make money, but rather wriiere prosperity reigns and prices are high. If cheap countries are desirable, then continental "Europe and not America in the years that have past- -. would have attracted mankind, but it has been in this Isold of plenty and hieli prices that millionaires have Jheen madejand mankind made wealthy, These facts should be pondered in making our propoganda for lower. let prices. So in righting the Wynnes that us not ruin our markets. The attorney general, for Instance is just now pursuing the meat trust, or the packers, and causing their disolution. The system that they h J . - ; fV - o , k f T $ . sb-caii- ed . 0 PCC&23;; durlnd tbs war ; : FRESH MEATS i WHITEHEADS u Phone 76.,- - . J Quality Grocers |