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Show $900,000? third and money fourth. While using his influence against the draft he failed to subscribe for Liberty bonds until the authorities began to .investigate his Are there any great projects under construction? Is not the increase due to the fact that the Democratic administration needs the money and having failed to force it out of the pockets of the taxpayers by means of a bond issue it is getting it by means of a scandalous increase in the tax levy based on inflated valuations ? Naturally the people must pay more for an administration that had among its members a mayor who was a thief and now has commissioners who use city workmen and city materials for their own ' benefit. first, ships second, soldiers 1919? record. When he first began to interfere with the. draft he had no official connection with it, but later he became a member of the advisory draft board. His appointment in nowise diminished his opposition to the draft. He continued to maintain that farming was mrc essential than actual fighting in the conduct of the war. No federal charge was filed against him, but his activities were called to the notice of the United States district attorney. Up to the time that the authorities intervened not a single young man of Riverton precinct had volunteered and all registrants had claimed exemption from military service. This is the record of one of the Democratic candidates. It is a record that was known to the Democrats because, in 1918, Page, who sought renomination as a representative, was forced by Democratic delegates to drop out of the race. What new excuses will the Democrats invent in extenuation of the treatment they have meted out to soldiers? o n I s T. N. T. THE TAX SCANDAL It- - The tax notices were a shock to the people of Salt Lake county. They are. the best campaign literature for the Republican party in the county that has yet been circulated and the Republicans can thank the Democrats for this contribution to Republican success. The tax notices did not tell the whole story, but they called attention, as nothing else could, to the terrific waste under, Demo- cc 111 111 Ip cratic administration. 1- 1- V he i ; ho :h: itli nd i j j ler I iig j ;he oi if the ha: plv ho From the capitol at Washington to the capitol of Utah and to the city and county building in Salt Lake City the story and the moral of Democratic inefficiency are the same. For state, schools and city and county purposes the Democratic administration will collect in Salt Lake county for 1920 the estimated sum of $8,201,317.01. This is a 50 per cent raise over last year when the taxes collected for all purposes totaled $5,491,202.01. The last year of Republican administration was 1914 when the total of taxes collected was $3,158,187.93. The increase of 1920 over that year is roughly 165 per cent. As soon as the Democrats took office taxation began to soar. The very first year of Democratic. administration brought an increase of $500,000, the total of collected taxes in 1915 being $3,669,786.63. Last spring, The Citizen aiding, the taxpayers of the county pre vented the city commission from getting its greedy claws on several millions of the peoples money through a water bond issue. But the commission played even. It increased its estimates $896,511.71 over last year. The Democrats, in their efforts to extenuate and disguise, call attention to the fact that $909,671 is the increase necessitated by the -- j .Bock-Neslen-Burt- on ug'i fact u-x- t crc lien on lice ait- - hat. the Inasmuch as the people of Salt Lake City are always eager and proud to support their schools according to the highest standards and arc willing to endure even burdensome taxation to obtain adequate salaries for the teachers, the Democrats thinks that they have made a sufficient explanation when they stress the increase resulting from Ihe needs of the schools. In addition to the $909,671 there must be added about $200,000 i(,r the county schools and town and special taxes. But the increase 1,1 taxation over 1910 is $2,710,115, so that, even with all the foregoing deducted, the increase is $1,600,443 for city and county purposes. Here are indications of the prevailing waste and extravagance Democratic administration. What of the $1,600,443 increase? Iy must the city and county pay that much more than in 1919 for adniinistration? Is it because it is Democratic administration? Why did the machine need the additional Bock-Ncslcn-Burt- on . TAYLOR The nomination of T. N. Taylor for governor on the Democratic ticket has had the destructive effect oi T. N. T. in labor circles. It was one of the Taylorites who, in the convention, stated playfully that Mr. Taylors initials stood for the high explosive which created such divertisement during the world war. It transpires that the shell in the great political T. N. T. exploded like a seventeen-inc- h ranks of labor. The Democratic leaders of Utah have been most sedulous in coveting the affections of union labor. Not that they have given union labor anything of value by way of nominations or otherwise; but they have talked in a most friendly and eulogistic fashion of the laboring man and his rights. Naturally the union men of the state expected that the Democratic convention would choose for governor one who, at least, was known as a friend of the toiler. Now they are saying that the nominee is one whose record shows that he does not believe Inasin fair wages and that ' he has no use for union, men. much as it is a Democratic specialty to dote on the toiler, when not suppressing him with wartime laws, the nomination of Mr. Taylor has caused pain and surprise among those who are usually trusted to deliver a large and deluded part of the union vote to the Demo- cratic ticket. The Democratic leaders have heard of this sad situation and have begun pulling strings among the union leaders to counteract the sentiment against the nominee. They insist that Mr. Taylor is much misunderstood and that he, like all Democrats, is a friend of labor and a foe of the profiteer. In his own town Mr. Taylor is at odds bitter odds with the world war veterans. He is accused of having excluded them from the temple square when they sought to sell soft drinks or something of that sort at a Fourth of July celebration. Others who had naught to do with the war were permitted to traffic on the ground from which the service men were barred. In view of the rough treatment accorded service men in the Democratic state convention the story of the feud between Mr. Taylor and the service men of Provo is being revived, much to the consternation of the Democratic leaders. schools. lire Are there any extraordinary expenses beyond those of order of their importance, he said on another occasion,- the farm was - y 5 THE CITIZEN I HYPHENATES The junior senator from Utah is of that type of Americans who, in. their fierce desire to brand others as hyphenates, forget that they themselves are hyphenates. Senator King is always eager to fight the battles of England against those whom he is pleased to describe as hyphenated Americans and in a speech before the Rotary club of Salt Lake he opposed the stand taken by Irish sympathizers in America who attempt to dictate the policy of England on the Irish question. There were Americans once who attempted to dictate, and did dictate, the policy of England regarding America. They fought a revolutionary war to throw off the yoke of that country which the senator says has always been the friend of freedom. May we not ask Senator King whether he believes America or England was right in that contest ? Was George Washington or George III right? The senator is not only an Anglo-Americ- an hyphenate lie is an |