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Show THE CITIZEN WHERE THE BONDS HURT YOU The cause of high rents is the shortage of homes. Rents will remain high until many more homes are built. We recommend this consideration to those who are tempted to vote for the $3,300,000 bond issue. If the city commissioners are given that sum they will divert to the construction of reservoirs. In the labor from rural districts farm labor will be diverted from production and will accept jobs at political pay on public works. All liquid assets should be devoted to the task of attaining maximum production. Other tasks can wait, especially tasks that are worse than useless. Bonds are redeemed by taxes and this adds to the cost of maintaining property. The owners simply pass the taxes on to the tenants, home-buildi- ng thus increasing rents. If the $3,300,000 to be added to our tax burdens would accomplish its purpose the providing of an adequate water supply system neither owners nor tenants would be inclined to complain, but certainly they would be foolish to cast their votes for a scheme which will be mostly waste and will add to the high cost of living. take us triumphantly through the era of reconstruction. The radicals did not differentiate between Russia and the United States. And therein they committed their fatal blunder. It was one thing to sap the foundations and crumble the whole edifice of Russian czarism, quite another to undermine American representative government. The switchmens strike, which has just come to an end, is a symbol of our governments strength. It is the final proof that the people are irrevocably for their government and will back it against revolution. The fact that the radical leaders could not keep their own men in an outlaw strike shows the weakness 'of American Bolshevism and the strength of our representative government. The switchmens strike was a definite test of relative strength. Its outcome encourages us to believe that the whole country can move forward to the solution of its great problems without fear of revolution and inspired by confidence that we shall solve those problems satisfac-ilwith our present machinery of government. y DR. CRANES BLIND SIDE It was Premier Lloyd George who, with the cunning of craft, compared the republican movement in Ireland with the attempt of the southern states to secede from the American uriionN It was COUNTY GIVEN CITY WATER not surprising that an English politician should meet the exigencies of a perilous situation in this manner, but it is amazing to find Millions of gallons of water are being sold by the city to that they chime in with the premiers inevery year. South of the city limits hundreds of residents Americans so who pay no taxes are being supplied with city water from Parleys effable nonsense. conduit. This is a source of revenue to the city, but it depletes the Among those who seem to have forgotten their history and to citys water supply and deprives the city taxpayers of water that is have ignored logic is Dr. Frank Crane, who writes: theirs by right. Each summer when Commissioner Neslen has been The President of the Irish Republic has been active amongst making rigid restrictions and imploring taxpayers to cut down their us, subscriptions have openly been taken to finance rebellion in Ireuse of water, he has been turning over a large part of the citys land, mayors and governors have lent their presence to demonstrations in favor of disrupting the British empire and even our national supply to residents outside the city limits. senate has passed a resolution favoring this end. All of which is precisely on a level with Englishmen who should give aid and comREDS LOSE AGAIN fort to a proposition to encourage secession on the part of sonic Five or six times the Reds have assailed the government of the portion of the United States. Twisting the lions tail continues to be the favorite .sport of United States in the last three years and each time they have smashed their heads against a stone wall. Whether any sense has certain editors and politicians. Our national senate, as the spokesman of the greatest free nation been beaten into their jarred craniums we do not know. What we do know is that American institutions are safe. The pillars of the in the worlds annals, was fully justified in its resolution expressing temple will not be destroyed. We may change the interior and sympathy with the cause of Ireland. When the day comes that our exterior decorations, but the temple will remain. representatives are no longer courageous enough to speak out for These considerations are suggested by the switchmens strike. liberty our people will have lost their freedom and in their decadence Like other revolutionary movements, fomented by the radicals, it will have dragged the world with them. Men everywhere are look-in- g of republicanism and we would Ag to us to be the disintegrated in the face of the unalterable determination of the blazon ourselves around the globe as unworthy of our fathers and A people to support their government and preserve law and order. The attack of the I. W. W. and the Reds began in the early our traditions if, while the people of every clime and religion arc the names of Washington and Lincoln, we maintain silence days of the European war. Incited by German agents, the radicals acclaiming out of ignoble discretion. sought to weaken our government so that we could not participate The comparison used by Lloyd George and his American echo is in the struggle and so that German submarines could destroy the ft worlds would shipping at leisure. After our entry into the conflict the frivolous. If they would institute a just comparison they radicals leaped into an even more virulent activity. They employedcompare the revolutionary movement in Ireland with the revolution the American colonies. That, indeed, would be a comparison of violence and sabotage to impede production on the farms and the factories. They stirred copper miners to revolt in Arizona, Utap&merit, but it would not wholly express the Irish cause, for the colonies I & nfcver were a nation, whereas Ireland was a nation for hundreds of ) I and Montana, and their challenge was met by deportation. to the Russian revolution rather tlrin years and was united to England in the present relation by a parlia- - v After the war, of the Irish people ment which disfranchised eight-tenth- s to German impulsion, they continued their activities. Taking advanBut how unutterable silly to compare a movement for liberty tage of the natural discontent resulting from the high cost of living with a movement to maintain slavery! The Irish people are seeking and the inadequacy of certain wage scales, they endeavored to materto establish their ancient liberties. The southern people were fightialize a real revolution. believed to be their constiThey were the vital principle, so to speak, of the steel, coal and ing for slavery as well as for what they secede. (railway strikes. While the conservative leaders of the national and tutional right to If Dr. Crane will not read the history of bis own country we international unions looked on in consternation the radicals spurred workers to strike. The object was urge him to read the speeches which Lord Chatham and other noble on the workers even well-pai- d the same which Lenine and Trolzky bad attained successfully in Englishmen delivered during the period of the American revolution. Russia the destruction of the old order. It meant nothing to the In their own parliament they were intrepid enough to defend the radicals that most people in this country swore by the old order and American cause and the general cause of liberty. Does Doctor Crane remember an' American who went to b ranee believed that the institutions of the fathers would be sufficient 1o non-taxpaye- rs ill-infor- -- torch-beare- rs mpf j re-acti- ng 8 3 1 |