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Show ,4 Published Every Saturday BY Single copies 10 cents. Payments should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The' Citizen. Address all eommunleatlone to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1010, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1870. Phone Wasatch 5400 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: S2L50 per year, inna oostage In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, all foreign countries, within the Postal tlx months. Subscriptions tc per year. 1 ' 311-12- 13 STA TE INCOME TAX FALLACY around for new ways in which to pile up addi-tta- x burdens on the people, it seems that a class of socialistic-jjjine- d souls have hit upon a state income tax dream as. the. suited to further exploit residents of Utah. Vis natural that socialists should advocate. a state income tax state they believe in more governmental functions and more tfal officials to carry out their paternalistic plans. They also Se several new forms of county officialism and state and of farm products, with attendant price fixing and Ul control of supply iand demand which in the end would give citizenry. . regular spoon-fe- d Td carry their ideas to a logical conclusion, after they get a (income tax which would be so hamstringed with exemptions the city man would have to pay the lions share they propose yin and producers against rise and fall of markets-irybody to be insured by the government against business words, all are to be guaranteed success and prosperity Bile groping . . . fed-narketi- ng can withstand a double licensing strain of the. weight of fads arid fancies, ostensibly imposed as legal fines arid the auto- -' mobile business is suffering most grevious discrimination. To further enmesh the people of the state in fanatical laws like the proposed state income tax measure, would be tantamount to piling on the last handful of straw that broke the camels back. surround it,- - that , ' Think it over! i - - - THE NIMBLE NICKLE. .... While the. Salt Lake Traction Company is beating around the bush, attempting to lighten the load at one iend and to kite it at the! other, perhaps. a little story about the achievements of those who have not distained the American nickle, may be relished by the citizens of the city forced to pay two cents tribute every time they ride the varnished, cars to an eastern controlled corporation. The traction company has figured out a benevolent plan to lower the wages of its hired men and at the same time would inflict one-- . iyc expense. man cars upon, the people of the city. This benevolence would result Subscribing to this program of state and national socialism and and in the company shortening up on its operative force by oiie-ha- lf xipal ownership of everything 'worth owning are half a dozen would indubitably mean less service and less comfort for patrons Jsjof radicals all .their theories' based upon socialistic doctrines, ftese radicals are working tooth and toenail' among the farmers. of the street cars than now obtains, which it may be truthfully said, constitute nothing much to rave over at present. ) in Utah the state income tax idea is gaining ground and many When a few residents of Murray took up. the cudgel for Salt Lake. coming ranting advocates of such a measure. These worthy and pre-wstreet jatoen may not know that they are sponsoring a' simeon pure City residents and demanded a return to sanity advised them the public liflic ideal in proposing such a measure, but the fact remains' car rates, the management of the company is one of the cardinal kited to eight cents. Not a principals of all radical organizations was lucky that basic fares were not was heard for Salt murmur of reproach or a whisper in. pet measure of those who believe they can saddle the major of the tax burden Lakers, naturally supposed to be the one people most directly conupon the other' fellow. fVtate income tax program is socialism personified. Socialism cerned.. And so it has gone along for upwards of a year, with per1 rankest and vilest forms ; it smacks of communism because it haps about half of the city street car patrons riding for two cents a canteen the coppers, usly believes it can throw back upon government the expense trip, by merely .slipping the fying on government. Aside from the fact that it is purely while sticky fingers cling to the more nimble nickle. As a natural fjyit is an attempt on the part of an oligarchy of producers to result the street car company has lost scads of real money and nowhandyhe cost of government upon the other fellow. It leads to proposes to. recuperate at the expense of its. employees and by one-horcars that are about logical conclusion and that an income tax to pay for every ing its patrons a bunch of as comfortable to ride in as an automobile trailer, if the scheme is Jj1 of society that may possibly be brought within the meshes . 'stically paternalistic form of carried out to its logical fulfillment, ' government. ! . .hhas now fastened upon itself about all the fantistic laiws But about .this nickle business The nickle gave us the Wpolworth building, the loftiest and most caiJ stand up under and survive. It has laws that subvert colossai skyscraper in the world and one of the seven wonders of the liberty, laws that hamper business and tax the natural ?fs the rtate to the fullest measure of their productivity, twentieth century. Now it. has provided us with the Wrigley build-- . 6 must ing, Chicagos, tallest and most magnificient edifice. Various. brands that one ra.nkc and world in law. automobile all the be office structure a fit;--, rectificl or it will tend to cut the revenue, annually derived of five cent chewing gum. paid for this wonderful on earth in New York. instate from gasoline .carriers to a mere fraction of what it companion for the biggest building a chain of stores throughout hat t The American nickle has built-ube under favorable licensing and would normally ' privileges. It is estimated by those who should know the land that have no comparison in any other country on thisprf ' st& abo;;t twice as much in Utah as it does in California to the other side, of the oceans. In all ways the nickle has done its duty . nnual state demands upon gasoline car .operation. There is magnificently, munificently and generously when afforded unhamp-ess today, no matter what glamour of public sentiment may cred opportunity. When hedged around with one or more coppers a safe-gua- rd fail-oth- er ar self-defen- se -- pay-as-you-en- bob-taile- d, . . ter . se |