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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2J0 per year, ling postage Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal ilx monthsJUO pr year. A. W. RAYBOULD, .. Single ooples 10 cents. Payments should be made by Cheek, Money Order or Registered Letter, able to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, Act of March S, 1879. under the City, Utah, Phone Wasatch 5409 SIMMS Ness Bldg. pay- . at the Postoffloe at Salt Lake Salt Lake City, Utah. THE SPIRIT OF 1776 nation with a known birthday. Out of the galaxy the United States is the only confedera-sovereig- n mis, large and small, commonwealths .that has a positive knowledge of he country was born. ; e spirit that dominated the fathers is still abroad in the land, and moves and has its being among those stalwart American lants of the pioneer, families who writ their names across chments of time in bold, and fearless hand, who achieved free-- r themselves and their posterity, and who founded the greatest the sun has ever looked down upon. is nation is ours to preserve and to hold sacred from blighting, ces either foreign or domestic it is ours by all the laws of dman and we should so celebrate its known birthday that ikind may see and note our unswerving purpose and deter-i- n to make it as great and as glorious as the fathers intended Id become. To accomplish this, this land of our must be it sacred abode of. the white race. suffer the dark skinned and yellow" races, with their different tion, their different aspirations, different ideals and their teem-lion- s, to peacefully penetrate our domains, acquire our lands restates, is to give up all that we live for, all that we have throughout the past century and a half of development and, to sacrifice our civilization and possibly banish the white man if the face of the earth. it behooves us to so celebrate the national birthday, to so snd the Spirit of 1776, that all those among us who e merely to exploit, may clearly understand. y 4, 1922, marks the 146th anniversary of the independence of 'fed States. It also marks the 146th anniversary of the signing mmortal document, penned by Thomas Jefferson, patriot and the Declaration of Independence. Iw stands it with the nation today, with the declaration and le constitution, of which Gladstone said it is the greatest tat ever fell at a given time from the brain and purpose of is the only is . , that never before have 0n the assaults from within and our American form of government been more heavily more thoroughly organized, or more persistently prosecuted, ley arc today. Professedly conducted in the interests of the Movements which aim at the very foundation of all that and loyal Americans hold dear, are going forward with , ln? momentum. arC avocaes violence roaming at will, but not menace. Those who throw the shadows of peril rican institutions and industry by false teachings and tariff are demagogues and doctrinares who seek by false educa-ertnioiir faith in our government and those policies red 11 a serious ne nr, Cr strong and great. They would gain control of its fundamental machinery to wreck oX tradi ent to use. tional faith in our American practice and beliefs and to enrich themselves. Through the resistance of millions of patriots who have not lost all sense of those principles the fathers fought for in the war of the Revolution, these United States recently escaped the menace of permanent involvement in European and Asiatic political and economic systems. It is not yet free from the ceaseless machinations of those who still hope to scuttle the ship. There never was a time when American patriots should rally in--greater numbers to the defense of American institutions and American industry. Inspired by ideals brought from the other side of the Atlantic and the Pacific, we are confronted with millions who would have us abandon, our traditional policies for something different something they learned at home. Lets revive the Spirit of 1776 and celebrate July 4th so they , will understand. LABOR TROUBLE ANALYSIS. i Present serious labor troubles in this country are, quite evidently, the direct result of a premeditated effort on the part of corporate interests and big combinations of capital to disorganize unionized labor. That this is being done at the expense of the public is becoming more and more manifest in the methods employed to deflate wages and to foist a system upon labor that goes far beyond the open shop or American plan idea and in reality is openly based upon a shop closed to all union members. There is nothing particularly new about this procedure save that in the present instance it is on a larger scale than ever before, and comes at a particular time in the process of revamping the economic status of the nation, following the war profiteering miasma, when capital and labor should have been forced to adjust their differences without impairment of the domestic economic structure which is the burden the consumer carries. The whole situation is surrounded with the most blantant evidence of insincerity. For the gpvernment or the rail executives to insist that the workers must obey the labor board rulings is rank nonsense in view of the fact that the railroads have ignored even the most ordinary findings of this body. That the workers are intent upon maintaining their position in the economic scheme of affairs is evident and the direct results of the late wage reduction means another protracted strike with all its accumulation of bitter hates as between the classes, and with its certain deflation of the dear public the innocent party who carries the full load. To observe high federal officials and the railroad employers prating about the power behind the rail board that of public opinion solely is insulting to the intelligence of our citizenship. The facts of the case arc they hold this an opportune time to come to grips with the labor union element in all industries because of depressed economic conditions and also because the trend toward industrial |
