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Show 5 THE CITIZEN market. Whereas he had bepn selling at 40 cents a pound they agreed to sell at 32 cents. Trade began to trend back their way. It was only a slight drop, to be sure, and the members of the combine may close their ranks and try. to continue their orgy of profiteering. They still have faith in their system, inasmuch as it worked well for three years. is still whetting his But that old warrior, battle axe. He never is utterly defeated. He may be beaten to the Supply-and-Deman- d, ground and breathless, but ever and anon he rises to dismay and abash his foes. Meat ought to be much lower in Salt Lake than it is. That is needs encouragement arid due to the fact that cheer-masthelp such as the restaurant men gave him. He needs a to urge him on. He needs publicity to scare his foes out of their complacency and forc6 them out into the open for a square fight. Supply-and-Dema- nd er . SMALL NATIONS OF LEAGUE PITTED AGAINST POWERS Delegates to the assembly of the League of Nations were shocked secrets for those who assume to represent civilization and its sanc to discover that they had no authority over mandates. They fancied tides. One with a leaning for logic would be tempted to argue that a that the assembly, as the representative of all the members of the league, was the grantor of the mandates. Naturally the delegates trust from civilization would be a trust conferred by at least a were stunned when the council interpreted Article XXII as giving majority of the civilized nations! But we find that the trust was conferred by the powers who sat in the treaty conferences at Paris. only the council power over mandates. n Article XXII begins with declarations that the well-- I These powers conveyed to themselves by treaty certain mandatory being and development of such peoples (the peoples given over to the rights and privileges and these rights and privileges are safeguarded powers by mandate) form a sacred trust of civilization and that to them by a cabal called a council. The mandates were created to transfer the spoils of war from securities for the performance this trust should be embodied in this the defeated to the victorious. The predatory great powers of Europe covenant. were for dividing the plunder summarily without too many excuses That was simply diplomatic dust cast into the eyes of the unsuspecting so that they would not see the joker inserted in the same and explanations, but President Wilson knew that this would astound his own countrymen and open their eyes abruptly to the perfidious article. The joker reads as follows: In every case of mandate, the mandatory power shall render deals which were being' plotted at the conference and he proposed This paved the way for the palaver to the council an annual report in reference to the territory com- - the polite fiction of mandates. about the sacred trust of civilization. niitted to its charge. The mandatory powers, after making a remonstrance, turned over d The degree of authority, control or administration to be the mandates to the council for inspection and the council gave the if the not the shall, by previously agreed upon by mandatory assembly commission on mandates a peek at the documents on conmembres of the league, BE EXPLICITLY DEFINED IN EACH dition that the terms be kept secret. Thus again was. the triumph CASE BY THE COUNCIL. of open covenants openly arrived at proclaimed to all the world.And what is the council of the league? Its members are the manInasmuch as there is no supreme court to interpret the terms of; datory nations, the nations that have appropriated the spoils of war. the covenant the councils interpretation must stand, because it is the will of the strongest. But that does not mean that a league, There are permanent members and temporary members, and the temdivided against itself, will stand. On the contrary, the belligerent porary members do not happen to have any mandatory powers. attitude of the assembly, which has assumed to represent the smaller It would appear, therefore, that only the members of the council as against the greater nations, suggests that the league is in more The peril now than ever. The have anything to say about the sacred trust of civilization. plundering powers may decide to abandon assembly has not even a right to see the annual reports. These are it in order to preserve their plunder. high-flow- exer-Icise- I - VICE RING WANTS A POLICE CHIEF OF ITS OWN NAMED Once more the vice ring is seeking ways to insure to itself official protection. It wants a police chief of its own and thinks it can obtain what it wants through the city commission. Among those who would be acceptable to the ring, it is said, is Sheri IT Corless, who retires from his present position on January 1. The dismissal from the force of all Republicans is said to be a part of the plan. the fixer, Leading in the scheme is Jake Raleigh, who deals with the profiteers of the underworld. Ever since he was forced to relinquish his deputyship in the sheriffs officer two years who has negotiated protection ago Raleigh has been the (i go-betwe- for en bootleggers and gamblers and other magnates of the underworld. Since last election day Raleigh. Dinkenspecl and 1 f tc in the ring have assumed to take charge of Sheriff Corless, cajoling him with the promise that he will be made chief of police. And they have been heard to boast that the deal is all framed and will go through. Raleigh spends much of every day with Corless and the deputies 1 1 others 1 that they have had no chance to advise with their d'ief. They declare that for a long time Raleigh has been running the sheriffs office while enriching himself and his ling associates. have complained Friends of Corless insist that he has never reaped a monetary advantage and say he has been the victim of designing men. airiong them some of his deputies. The vice ring has numerous ramifications. One section of it brought the bunko men to town last spring and summer and fixed certain city detectives and other officers to permit the plunderers to operate. By their inability to reach ccrtainofficcrs the members of the bunko ring were unable to take full benefit of their well-lai- d plans, but their operations did not cease, until they had fleeced their victims out of many thousands of dollars. No one denies that Corless has long been under the domination of the bootlegging and gambling ring through the agency of Jake Raleigh and his associates. If Corless were named chief of police this domination would continue and all hope of cleaning up the town would be gone. The underworld magnates would be intrenched in power and would feel much more secure from the Jaw than they feel today. The agents of the ring that have been collecting from the vice kings have levied blackmail regularly from bootleggers and have attempted to collect from gambling houses that refused. to be |