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Show THE CITIZEN 4 OBSERVATION PLANE I i i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiHuiuiuiiiuiiiuniiiiiiuiiHuiiuuiiuiiiiiiitiHiuiiiuinuniiiiiiuiiiiimii iiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiii cratic legislature is to blame for many of our woes, but it occurs to us that an attorney general ought not to be entirely useless simply because a legislature failed its duty. The salient fact is that Salt Lake and Utah are far behind the procesto-d- with a lamb and find him transformed into a roaring lion. Richard ty. Young Is Groomed T T AVING suddenly A stepped from the center of the aside Demo- cratic stage,. Governor Bamberger has disclosed in all his glory none other than Brigadier General Richard W. Young. Once the general shone amid the bursting of shells and the fiare of rockets, but now he is in the dazzling heart of the political spotlight. All kinds of Democrats are talking of him for governor,, and it would appear as if only he stood the ghost of a show for the nomination. We fear, however, that the Democrats, with their usual childish ardor, have rushed in where angels would have been more circumspect. They invited Richard to the wedding feast without prescribing the garments he should wear and Richard is apt to make a show of himself, as he did on that celebrated occasion when he addressed the Kiwanis club and urged the members to make the w'orld safe for socialism. Having identified himself with socialism in such public fashion this soldier of the Legion owed an explanation to conservative Democrats, but thenceforth he maintained the dignified silence of a Sphinx. The general, never too proud to fight, was too proud to explain, another point of sim- ilarity, by the way, between him and the well known sphinx. A sphinx who will explain is no sphinx. He would not explain whether he belonged to the right or the left branch of the so- i -- . cialists. Wouldnt our friends, the Democrats, be in an awful fix if it turned out that Richard was a leftist? Inthe stead of viewing with alarm platform-maker- s to would be compelled .point with pride to Lenine and Trotzky. They would be required to d fashion to allude in the Lenine and Trotzky as those grand old warriors of the Democratic party or as the. noblest Romans of them And they would adopt somte all. such slogan . as this: Lenine and Young, Trotzky and Wilson. time-honore- Naturally some of the Democrats cannot see why a socialist should be given the Democratic nomination. Others, who are more liberal, would like to know a reasonable time in advance whether the candidate is only a parlor socialist or a genuine Bolshe- - vik.. They. do not wish to lie down We presume that the gentleman in the spotlight is not so confused by the bedazzlement of his position that he does not know whether he is merely a mild type of the theorizing socialist who hates to collide with rough facts Bolor is a wild, shevik! thirsting for carnage and office. If he does know, let him out with it. He should tell all of us whether he simply wants a dictatorship of the proletariat by Richard W. Young or a dictatorship of Richard W. Young by the proletariat foaming-at-the-mout- h We are confident, however, that Richard is for himself for governor, no matter what he believes. Utah Democrats Rely on Din din, din, din with the Demo-crats of Utah. Whenever a crisis arises that calls for action the DemoT T is crats camouflage with din. We are not referring to Kiplings hero when we speak of din, but that very ancient form of political distraction which consists in making a loud noise when the people demand results. If the special session of the legislature, called for late in September, is as bad as was the regular session the reign of the profiteers will be re- markable. But the Democrats see the necessity of making some kind of demonstration to distract public attention. For weeks the governor has been talking about what was going to happen to the perfidious profiteers. Government supplies were to be shipped in and sold at cost, but the governor has not shipped in any supplies. Then there was to be a concerted rabbit round-uof the profiteers, who were to be caught and chastized severely. So greatly disturbed have the profiteers become that they are writing letters to appease the public, but it has not occurred to them to lower p prices. All sorts of price-fixin- g combines guide or restrictions is to provide for expense and nothing else. If we are to have investigators and inspectors, let us know what they are to do and what it is expected will re-suit from their work. And speaking of inspectors, we have a surplus of them now. The other day, at a little retail shop, three inspectors arrived at one time to inspect the meat a city, a county and a federal inspector. Perhaps the cost of living might be reduced a bit if some of these inspectors were engaged in productive occupations. They are as much middlemen as those we are so anxious to rid ourselves of. if j No doubt, some of them are necessary, but often their work is duplication. Not only is it duplication, but it is of such a character as to give the packers , a monopoly of the meat business. The chief aim of the inspectors seems to be to centralize all the meat business into the hands of the packers. If the inspectors could aid in bringing the producer and consumer into direct contact they would be accomplishing something worth while. And they can accomplish that o a sion. Every day we read of progress made in other states against the profiteers, but all that we have in Utah is Democratic din, with the muffler cut out wide open. What influences have been at work in Salt Lake to stop all action? . What Does Extra Session Expect To Accomplish? Tl ATURALLY the public is quite interested to know what the extra session of the legislature is to do , about the-- high cost of living. Will it undertake seriously to reduce the living costs, or will it simply play politics and add to the already almost intolerable burdens of the taxpayers? Investigation at the expense of the taxpayers will furnish forth new offices and jobs for deserving Democrats, but what will it accomplish? The taxpayers are anxious to know in advance what good will result. Is the extra session to be merely a gamble with the peoples money? Is the very thing. When the winter months come meat inspectors should be placed at the main highway entrances to the city and given more power to inspect meat brought to them by peddlers. The" wagons can then drive directly to the homes and sell quarters and halves of beef, pork and mutton to the householders. Thus direct dealings between the producer and consumer would be possible and the result ought to be a notable economy. legislature gosimply ing it blind, hoping that it may be able by some hocus-pocu- s to reduce high costs? One thing is certain. Money will be spent. If the Democrats equal the record of their regular sessions they will accumulate deficits and achieve little or nothing. The governor has indulged in some resounding imprecations against profiteers. He has shaken the extra session threats in the face of the people like Jovian lightnings, but the people are a little afraid that these light- nings may serve only the purposes of destruction. No plan for curbing the profiteer has been set forth. It has been pointed out that there must be appropriations for investigations so that the attorney general may obtain information upon which to base prosecutions. That means hired investigators at high wages, adding to high taxes, with no certainty of preventing high prices. The governor and the are in our midst, but Attorney Gen- eral Shields can only assume the pa- tient attitude of a Democrat watchfully .waiting. He is very sympathetic, and even deplores, but he does not act. He blames the Democratic legislature which failed to provide funds attorney general when he returns from junketing might explain just what steps are to be taken. They might try tc estimate how much for. an investigation of anything or anybody. We know that the Demo-- gram. Merely to let the legislaturet loose in the golden pastures without money will be needed, but, above all, they should arrange a definite pro- -- Laughing Stock Exchange T7 0R a long time the members of A the Stock Exchange have refused to take the board of governors seriously. The governors have conducted themselves far from wisely and well. The suspicion has becony conviction that there is no wisdom m them. The Stock Exchange is a Laughing Stock Exchange. And all on account of governors who do not understand their duties nor the limitations of their office. They are not called upon to stir up feuds or engage in juvenile squabbles. Their duties are specified and a course of action is mapped out for them in the rules of the exchange. When they depart from the rules give rein to their prejudices and animosities they are making themselves worse than useless. Before setting out to purify others (Continued on Page 15.) m |