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Show ' r PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO, INC. P. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Manager. W. E. CHAMBERLIN, Bualnesa Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Ineluding poatago In tho United State Canada and Mexico 92.00 per year, for alx months. Subacrlptlona to all foreign countrloa, within tho Poatal Union, per year. Payment should bo made by Chock, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- a matter, June 21, 1919, at ths Poctofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 91.25 9&90 Single coplea, 9 cento. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-121- 3 Nesa Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. POLICY PROGRESSIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE G. O P. IN the approaching by its campaigns the Republican party of Utah is to be young, progressive, independent members, by those managed who are best fitted to cope with the problems and crises of the new time. The party that adopts a reactionary policy is lost. The world has moved into a new atmosphere. From time to time our opponents, when floundering hopelessly on the defensive, seek to take the offensive by flinging at the Republican party the charge that it is reactionary. They think to stop criticism of their own blunders and follies by picturing the Republican party as an old warrior guarding the gates of the past. It is an easy and meaningless charge. Some of our red radicals are denouncing Christianity for standing by the ten commandments. But old institutions are good only when they are founded on right and justice. The old constitution of the United States is good; it is founded on justice and that is why the Republican party has been its faithful defender. That fundamental law has guaranteed to us rights and securities which have permitted us to work our way swiftly to the supreme place among the powers. But while the Republican party is a defender of our form of government and opposes revolutionary innovations that lead nowhere its merit has always been that it has refused to live in the past. It has always sought to meet the changing times with constructive measures. Sometimes it has been denounced for protecting the interests of property, and yet had there been no party in the country to protest reforms, against destructive radicalism we would against wild-eye- d long ago have been in the hands of revolutionary groups more visionary and impracticable than the Redsiof Russia. The party that will serve the country best in the future is the party that effects the most happy combination of conservatism and the best in the old order and progressiveness, the party that clings-trerefuses to be carried away by the panacea of every . o hair-brain- ed former. Nevertheless the party realizes that the protection of property does not mean the neglect of man. It does not mean that the corporations shall be left to the old system of laissez faire. The corporations must be subject to the general welfare. They must submit to wise regulation. They must be made the servants of the common good. To shackle them would be as foolish as to permit them to prey upon the public. It is just because the Republican party knows how to follow the . golden mean in this respect that the people will give it their support in the forthcoming campaigns. The people still have a healthy respect for the constitution; they still believe that the best way to make progress is to make haste slowly. We find the Democratic party falling into the hands of radicals whose idea of government is change for the sake of change. The trumpeters of the Democratic party are just now acclaiming the North Dakota experiments as if these innovations had already proved their worth. It is the tendency of the radical to accept innovations at their face value. If anything be labeled Reform he immediately gives it his assent and goes out into the highways and byways preaching the new doctrine. Sooner or later he discovers that he has been spouting folly. The signs of a split in the Democratic party are becoming more apparent every day. The conservatives are disgusted to find that much of the rank and file of the party is tainted with Bolshevism and is in favor of a soviet form of government. Whenever the favorite factions of the Democratic administration want anything they threaten to obtain it, not by votes, but by strikes or other methods of direct action. They hold a club over the heads. of the leaders of their party. It is an army of mutineers. Such an organization will not get anywhere. Violence and intimidation are the weapons of revolution, but they accomplish nothing for the orderly solution of problems. If we arc to work our way out of the mazes into which the war has led us we must have all our wits about. us. More than ever we must be faithful to our fundamental law the constitution. If we depart from it we shall find ourselves on uncharted seas, the helpless playthings of every wind and wave. Governments are not brought to perfection in a day. Only the wisdom of the years can make them fit instruments of service. The chief flaw in the reasoning of the innovator is his failure to recognize the value of the past. For more than a century the supreme court of the United States has been interpreting the constitution of the United States and has built up a machinery of law which operates smoothly for more than 100,000,000 people. How valuable each cog in that machinery is the wild-eye- d reformer does not see. .He recognizes his folly only after he has damaged the machine and halted progress. The Republican party, therefore, is pledged to be both conservative and progressive at the same time. Its plan is to solve the problems of the country without resort to revolution. It believes that our constitution will still be our safest guide, that we can adjust our government to the new time without surrendering to Bolshevism, |
