Show THE THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION F The people of the United States have been highly edified recently by the to set-to between President Taft and Colonel Roose- Roose velt It seems that in many instances the exchange Q personalities ties ies has been considered undignified and without parallel considering consid- consid c ering the fact that the participants are two of the f foremost public n men en n in the world today The smoke of this wordy battle is gradually grad- grad J Dually u lly clearing away and there are those political augurs who say sayF F the Colonel looks somewhat larger than he did at the beginning o of the fray Of course it may be that th there re will be a landslide in inis is either direction when the votes are cast at the national convention 4 and would to the outcome an we not venture a guess as Ephraim democrats have valiantly joined the banner ol of iC J Champ J lamp Clark No matter what may be our opinion in regard to tori ri d this choice we cannot avoid admiring the local democrats for supporting supporting sup sup- porting a western man for the office of president The real west r f has never been represented in this high office and the sooner wo we r can can get a president from this part of the country the better il it jj ought ought to please everybody who vho lio makes this his home But we A doubt seriously whether we will have a western president during A the lifetime of any person who is now on earth earth and by the term western western we mean a man an who has been reared west of the Mississippi Miss Mis Mis- s and who lives west of f the Father bather of Waters Vaters at the time of oft t Q election T This lis of course is a somewhat pessimistic prediction tF remember that the bulk of the country's population t V Ji but but we should t f 4 is east of the Mississippi and we should not forget the fact that y the the people who live in the eastern states imagine that when th they y cross the Mississippi they are entering into the wilderness where v i the people are as uncultured as th the coyotes and rattlesnakes that fk are supposed to infest every clump of sagebrush These consider- consider U cad ad us to the belief that Champ Clark would be a much r reat n it if he lie made his home in New York or Ohio fortunately however the peOple of Sanpete county have i more more important issues to decide than than are presented by the presidential resi- resi I d campaign The Enterprise does not expect the ship of oi r ti state to founder no matter whether the next neat administration is 0 republican democratic or socialist Our next neat administration will k not affect our welfare as much as will the disposition which we i. i t nuke of some local questions although we believe that all good citizens should be interested in politics and should value their y votes tes as they do the apple of their eye e But what we do o this year in the matter of developing our t r. r natural resources resources will be infinitely more reaching far-reaching than our activity activity ac ac- 1 in m the political campaign From rom statistics that have recently recent recent- b 1 ly been compiled we find that there are approximately seven hun in S Salt lt Lake City today We Ve consider consider con con- 2 i dred former living sider it a conservative estimate when we say that this is perhaps third one-third of the former citizens of this place who are are now living t elsewhere Now there must be some reason why these people left Ephraim and since this is a commercial com age we are led to the conclusion con con- con I elusion that they left Ephraim because there are other places that offered them more profitable employment and perhaps m more re conj conveniences conveniences con con- j in the way of public utilities The latter rea reason on can cant t however no longer be urged thanks to the improvements that thatA A fJ have been made here within the past six years People leople who leave Ephraim in the future will do so because r not find profitable employment here as elsewhere and they can cannot as i j. j the matter of employment for men women and children is the j. j thing that the people of this city and county will have to dispose i of l Surely there are few who will willingly leave profitable employment em- em em- em employment t to go where the indu inducements are re not so good and the U big question that confronts us is is to provide the profitable employ employ- m meat ment nt Imagine what a bustling population we would have if we 1 I. I could bring back the 2100 former citizens who are now scattered throughout the country 1 tt W lY We e have long been beets looking to the acres of swamp land west of town for employment not only for future generations from i this city but for wayfarers who vho desire to engage in profitable What do YOU think about it county j al gardening in Sanpete |