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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: dlna post' go In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2J0 per year, to all foreign countries, within the Postal jlx months. Subscription Single copies 10 cents. Payments should bo made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Poet office at Salt Lake of March S, 1879. Act City, Utah, under the Phone Wasatch S409 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. 811-12-- por ye3P 440 13 CONGRESSIONAL TOMFOOLER Y tomfoolery has reached its highest point of effi- in these United States in the past, two decades. hundred and ten million people now witness their congress wrangle over the passage of every measure that comes up End be said to be vital to the progress of the nation.. The can only hope to get vital legislative measures passed t arousing the opposing faction to heroic efforts in opposition periods of exceeding national stress or when war threatens, ery constructive measure proposed by the party that happens opposi-litician- s, power is immediately set upon and torn to shreds by who are always nosing around for a chance to ad- their own and their partys political fortunes. The welfare nation has apparently become submerged in successive tidal of political intrigue, which follow in the wake of each con-ncampaign as sunshine follows the storm.. parently it means nothing at all to these gentlemen of the ss that our industries languish and that business sullenly mopes engthening shadows of depression, while European and Asiatic teturers, American importers and international money changers ping a golden harvest. The matter of passing a tariff bill em merely another stepping stone to continued political power; its scientific or its economic value to the nation seemingly very largely into the computation ; it is looked upon as a political business and as such it must be framed as a political the varied industrial, exporting and importing interests of the ngressional do-nothi- ng on i al . . hundred, and ten million American citizens see ss and adjourn, after tedious months of political cross-fir- e r less personal bickering, with most important legislative and then they see it reassemble with new members hiess the whole tiresome fight over an important proposition, wily the one busi-lifinish- ed, fresh. have ey lctment seen this procedure repeated for years at a time while of measures Vital to the life and continuity of our im- - industries n have fate. Itncss in- -. seances over important legislation lost sight of its significance and become indifferelit protracted ey s hung in the balance. They have seen congress rag-chewi- ng our merchant marine problem and our easure. For many years the subject of a ship subsidy has Political football and the tariff decades ago degenerated into a ground on which the politicians ride, dizzily, to either political or oblivion each successive four years, .efs in congress who are familiar with our shipping situa-- 9 realise the vital necessity of protection for home indus-- c eing prevented from action on these measures by getting stered today as examples 1 and encouraged by a host of politicians notoriety. Such representatives as these would make Jeinto t. headless, spineless and jellyfish organization, Coninuittds' of foreign importers, foreign envoys and dom CaP two-by-fo- ur estic uplifters who believe that the mission of the United States is to slave forever for foreign lands. In the matter of the ship subsidy bill this policy of many of our lawmakers and their suggestion that further delay in passage of ship legislation is probable, while European and Asiatic subsidized shipping interests are working day and night to corner American commerce and force our government owned fleet off the high seas, has forced President (Harding to declare himself in no unqualified manner and to demand that this question be settled at he has this session of the congress. As a penalty for non-actithreatened to convoke congress in extraordinary session that it may swelter and sweat over a bit of really vital law making, during the hottest days of the year. In order to insure the development of our industrial fabric, this nation adopted a protective tariff covering the products of the factory, the mine and the farm, many years ago. The nations has grown, amazingly rich and strong under this wise policy of the fathers. Except for spasmodic periods of remission when a misguided constituency appears willing to sacrifice its hopne market for a chance to buy cheap foreign products this country has been guided and fostered into a leading position in the economic world by this policy of a protective tariff. Now the condition of world trade demands that the United States must provide ships to carry its products to . all the markets of the world if it would receive a square deal. American shipping has been, built and is being manned by the highest paid labor in the world. None would have American standards of living lowered, but the insurmountable handicap caused thereby to American, shipping, built and operated by protected labor in competition with foreign ships, is . . ... obvious. President Harding recognizes these facts and also the fact that as conditions return more directly to normal, as freight rates drop and as competition becomes keener the American flag will be wiped off the seas by foreign competition, just as' it was prior to the world war. He also realizes that the people are very tired of the tomfoolery that has been and is being displayed in congress regarding the shipping measure and the tariff. If America is again placed in jeopardy facilithrough lack of either an adequate tariff schedule or shipping ties such as obtained before the war, President Harding realizes that the blame will rest solely with the men now in congress, upon .whose action the future trend of the nation toward prosperity or further depression depends. 4 ALL THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR. Sharp upward turns in prices of basic commodities within the of the past few weeks, herald an early return to. the profiteering days war period if well laid plans of the corporate interests that dominate American merchandising arc carried to fruition.' There is no agency on earth vested with sufficient power to sue- - |