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Show d Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager ALLAGHER, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: eluding postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, EJf fer six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal' JujsLJ, $4.50 per year. Single copies, 10 cents. Payments should Jae made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay-- . able to The Citizen. 1 Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake of Act March .3,. 1879. City, Utah, under the WHY NOT A TO ERADICATE SIN ? & Sf I not a special session of the legislature? '"Surely, which has just adjourned in a blaze of sanctity has not finished ask of making the people good by law. Much remains to be and we think that our ought not to stop on the cost, l)ridge between good and evil. We ought not to count . paltry, sordid dollars when there is such an opportunity to render llpeople perfect by law. .;Our legislators have thrown over liberty in their pursuit of ;ectability and perhaps consider the battle for liberty well lost IPJpO per cent of the people can be made 100 per cent perfect; or, of the people can be 'Qjjjftaps, if only 75 per cent or even 50 per cent 100. per cent perfect. end the experiment before it is begun? The prohibition SWhy ;Ni$r(ijd 110 prevent the manufacture of booze at the states expenses itness the fake extracts that were manufactured for beverage law the old law did not prevent oses. That tlJors from obtaining cigarettes, but these legislative efforts to among our people may have failed simply because were not supported by other haws to suppress human freedom ranj delight. Surely, in an extra session, the legislators could think LpOMhalf a hundred vices that could be legislated against. Dwell, for a moment, on the dreadful curse of tea and coffee, jie of our most devout legislators were in favor of a law forbidding tfci? use of tea and coffee. Perhaps our memory is at fault, but wc seem to remember that some such law was introduced or, at least, formulated for presentation at the last remarkable meeting of our Elected representatives. Wherefore the need of a special session is necessary. Perhaps, we should use the more correct, more technical, and, indeed, the more descriptive phrase extraordinarv session. Just let the gover- m call the session and the solons will make it extraordinary. We re- employed the term special session because every session of our the-legis-- Why super-lawmake- e rs anti-cigaret- te It cannot help being extraordinary. cently elected legislature such extraordinary men are in it. Think of pausing in the good work when they might have placed a legal ban on coffee and tea. How many of our people, ?vcn young girls and boys, begin the day by breakfasting with sin. Oh, Cassio, Cassio, to think that one should put that into his aesophagus that which steals away his brain ! In our excitement wc have somewhat missed the words of Shakespeare, but our meaning is more or less clear. As we all know the deadly caffeine, the highly intoxicating, devilish, stimulating caffeine is the vital principle of both tea and coffee. Shall we allow our people to go on being stimulated by demon caffeine, when a mere law can dash the cup of inebriety from their lips ? Who A was it dared to say the cup that cheers, but not inebriates! with the powers of darkness. plague on all. poets Hut it would not be necessary for the extraordinary legislature laws to tea and coffee. A whole field' to limit their virtue-makin- g of human imperfections would be spread out before them. They could run the entire gamut of legislation. They could even stop golf at the country club. Sonic of our people are building a rival country club for reasons of their own and we arc apt to. have a number of games of golf going on at one and the same time. Shall we stand idle while with an iron club in one hand and a cigarette pointed skyward some brutalized citizen, perchance on Sunday, pounds a little ball, over puddle and pool, hole and hollow, hill and dale and elsewhere? Our people are eating too much meat. In the last session a bill to ban meat on Friday was introduced, but why stop at Friday? Why not ban meat or, at least, porterhouse steaks, every day in the week. Not all of our people cat too much meat, but some do, and that is enough to justify a reformer in voting for a virtue-makin- g law. . Let us have done, call the means all session. extraordinary By once for all. with crime and vice and sin! is. , , in-leagu- e evil-annihilati- ng t :v, EX-KAISE-RS 7 ,s r , DEFENSE IS REVIVAL OF EXPLODED PROPAGANDA What brief excerpts the cables. afford us Afthp former kaisers memoirs are far from convincing. The purpose of the book is to :$n.mstrate that neither he nor that uncertain entity which we may .csll Germany was responsible for the war. W N To prove that he strove for thirty years to maintain peace is Ins evidence calculated to show that beside the question. So. too, r years m trying-tdraw an the entente nat.onswere engaBed |