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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOQDWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor and Mgr. L. J. BRATAGER, Business Mgr. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, Including postage $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. Single copies, 10 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 Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-- 13 REPUBLICANS MUST A WAKE IF THE Y WOULD WIN what they have done in the last six months to achieve victory FOR Utah the energetic Republicans deserve commendation because of the unselfishness with which they have devoted themselves to the interests of the party. It is to be hoped that the national committee , appreciates what they have done and understands the difficulties under which they have labored. Unfortunately the national committee, while liberal with words of encouragement, has not paid as much attention to the Utah situation as it deserves. Much of the committees efforts are being expended in states which, by all accepted signs, are virtually safe for the national ticket. Utah, which at this writing is democratic, is being treated almost with indifference. No one doubts that there has been a landslide of Democrats into the Republican party all over the nation, the solidest parts of the South alone excepted. That landslide, however, has not been so marked in Utah as elsewhere in the North owing to peculiar conditions which need not be discussed here. These conditions must be taken into account by organizers and campaigners, by platform-maker- s and party managers, but the purpose of this article is not to dwell upon issues. It is simply to point out the need for greater and greater effort not only by the state leaders but by the national committee. There was a time when Utah was one-ha- lf the Republican party New Hampshire being the other half. During much of the first two decades of the twentieth century Utah has contented itself with following the procession at a distance of several years. It fell into the Democratic possession after waiting that long. It is difficult to pull Utah out of a rut. When it changes its faith it changes it so hard that tt does not awaken to the new order of affairs in the nation until it finds. itself alone. The need of Utah is an intensive campaign of education from now until election day so that it shall be kept awake to the fact that the nation is going Republican in November of this year. And every attempt of the Democratic plotters to elect a Democratic governor and state ticket by a deal with Republicans should be repudiated at the very outset. Republicans should make up their minds to insist that in a Republican year Utah shall be all Republican. The national committee will lose interest in the state if conspirators on cither side .seek to effect such a disgraceful and nefarious combine. ? If there are disloyal Republicans capable of making deals they should be read out of the party. Nor should lukewarm Republicans be treated with indulgence, particularly those lukewarm leaders who have constantly been honored by their party but who arc deaf when appeals are made to them to finance the party campaigns. Their enthusiasm is high when they see a chance to get something out of the party, but their hearts grow as cold as Greenlands icy mountains when the party wants something from them. How would such men like to see their names in print beneath the caption Slackers ? This is the crucial time for perfecting the victory organization. If the slackers will not help they should be publicly pilloried. LEAGUE TRUCE WITH BOLSHEVISM i to FAILURE to check Bolshevism with arms compels the League of seek a peaceful arrangement with Lenines govern- ment. The greatest military power in Europe today is the Bolshevik army. Neither the British nor the French can make head against it with their bullets and starvation blockades. Therefore, the League of Nations, as one of its first acts, lifts the blockade and announces that trade with Bolshevik Russia will be permitted. And while allied Europe makes this concession it trembles with affright. For weeks secret agents of Great Britain conducted negotiations with representatives of Tchicherin, the Bolshevik foreign minister, and presumably the outcome of the parleys was an agreement to come to terms. No doubt Lenines government promised many amiable things to stop the world-wid- e propaganda for revolution, to pay the debts of the old Russian government and to cease military operations against the new countries established by the allies. Lloyd George bore the message to the first meeting of the League of Nations and the council announced the termination of the blockade. Clemenceau protested, but finally acquiesced, giving the necessary unanimity. Thus was a new policy toward the Bolshevik Red Terror adopted. On what theory is this new course of action founded? First of all, it is founded on necessity. The military power of Leninc cannot he crushed; apparently it cannot even be stayed. Great Britain and France, exhausted by five years of slaughter and destruction, have only sufficient naval and military power to maintain a semblance of order in their own empires. To make war successfully pn Bolshevism is impossible. Nor can they rely on their little allies on the borders of Bolshevism. These, as well as the Russians in the armies, have been defeated by the armies of Leninc. The circle of steel that held the Reds within a few hundred miles of Moscow has been rent asunder. The Bolshevik giant, at one stride, has stepped clear down to the Black sea. It was time that the allies raised the blockade, for the Bolsheviki would have raised it them- far-flu- ng All-Russi- an |
