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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr.. W. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico $2.00 per year, $1.25 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at 8alt Lake March 3, 1879. of Act under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 BUSINESS MEN SHOULD A VOID RAISING CLASS ISSUE ONE of the familiar and favorite methods of politics has been to business men for municipal office and even sometimes to nominate an entire business mens ticket. We believe that if the business men will stop to consider the proposal of such a ticket this year they will realize that it raises a new issue, an undesirable issue between capital and labor. At a time when every effort should be made by all influential men in communities everywhere in the United States to unite labor and capital in every good movement it is unfortunate that business should attempt class action in more or less open opposition to labor. We are quite sure that this kind of class partisanship was not the purpose of most of the gentlemen who attended the meeting at the Commercial club, but some of the speakers spoke in denunciatory terms of labor without making any distinction between the conservative and radical elements in the labor movement. One of the mottoes of business men, especially members of Commercial clubs, is We believe that is a good motto for this campaign. Instead of denouncing one another the business men and the laboring men should get together. Instead of insisting on their points of difference and hostility they should insist upon their one dominant interest in common good Americanism. The Citizen has taken occasion, time and again, to denounce the labor class movement Avhich tends toward class dictatorship and soviet government. It would be inconsistent now if it did not condemn a class movement among the business men when the protagonists of the movement virtually issue a challenge to Labor. For their own sakes, for the peace and prosperity of the city ' the business men should seek to harmonize all elements in the community. We believe that, at bottom, such was their purpose and that most of them did not appreciate the peculiar significance that would be attached to a business mens ticket at this time the raising of a class issue. The conservatives in the labor movement set a good example when they prevented the radicals from placing a radical ticket in the field. The business men, by placing a business mans ticket in the field and advertising it in that light are doing just that which they did not wish labor to do and just that which labor, in the interests of good will, prevented the radicals from doing. The community, of course, wants a business administration and would be glad to support good business men, but it does not want an issue between capital and labor. In the interests of all of us, therein fore, it would be wise if the business men and the conservatives in the election of a ticket not the labor movement could Get-Togeth- co-oper- ate er. a labor ticket and not a business mans ticket, though neither business man nor laboring man should be barred. In the heat of controversy the business men are apt to forget that the radicals, while they shout the loudest, are by no means the majority in the ranks of labor. The majority of the workers are just as safe and sane, just as cool headed, just as patriotic as the business men. Like the business men they fail in their duty by their apathy. They permit the riotous radicals to control labor meetings and movements when, if they but united, they could easily keep the radicals submerged. Some excellent candidates have entered the field, but it goes without saying that the voters would like a wider opportunity for choice at the primary. Among the candidates for mayor are Chief of Police White and Attorney J. E. Darmer. Mr. Darmer is able, independent, energetic and enterprising and will receive strong support. Chief White is one of the ablest accountants in the state and has had wide business experience and undoubtedly would be especially fitted to supervise the financial department of the municipal government. Among the candidates for commissioner none is more worthy of support than Harry Joseph. He has been foremost in all worthy civic movements. No man is better acquainted with the needs of the city. None of the candidates has a wider knowledge of municipal conditions, although that knowledge has been gained, not at the expense of the public, but as loyal, studious, watchful, energetic private citizen who has been interested in the progress of the city and the welfare of its inhabitants. There Commissioner II. II. Green is a candidate for is some difference of opinion about his achievement while in office. We hear it said by his supporters that he has been as efficient as any of the present office holders, while his opponents would have us believe that he has not been a shining success. Perhaps that is the fate of almost every office holder. Mr. Green is a capable and conscientious official entitled to ask for Frank Hewlett, one of the first to announce his candidacy for commissioner, has many friends, lie is regarded as among the most deserving of those who will ask for the suffrages of the voters at the re-electi- re-electi- on. on. primary. The latest to enter the contest are II. F. Redman for mayor and George H. Islaub, former county recorder, for the office of city commissioner, both supported by the business men. |